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Student Q&A with Guy on "Transform Any Old Weakness into a New Spiritual Strength" (6/19/22)
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Student Q&A with Guy on "Transform Any Old Weakness into a New Spiritual Strength" (6/19/22)

  • Posted: Monday, June 20, 2022
  • Meeting: Sunday, June 19, 2022

  • Duration: 33min 55sec

Topics Covered
  • The spiritual journey involves discovering the genuine need to be awake, and seeing where presently we are led around by weakness.
  • There is no kindness in any power that a person attributes to him or herself.
  • What is the real source of weakness? The fact that we have no permanent 'I.' Rather, our current sense of self is produced by identification with whatever grabs our attention, and that sense of self is always changing and shifting.
  • Whatever we are doing that is bad for us, that therefore makes us feel awful, must be justified because there is another part of us there at that moment that knows that what we are doing is not right.
  • Changing what you identify with does not change the level of consciousness that must always identify with something in order exist as a sense of self.
  • The "smug spiritual I" in us is what judges everything inside of us and outside of us for not living up to what it believes is good.
  • An 'I' that is divided cannot stand... neither itself nor anything else.
  • "If I am not for myself, then who will I be? But if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, then when?" -- Hillel the Elder (paraphrased). Guy's rewording: "If I don't identify with something, then who am I? But if I identify with everything, then what am I?"
  • According to the divided sense of self that is identified with something outside of itself, peace and contentment is always somewhere downstream from what I am right now.
  • The divided consciousness requires an enemy to be against in order to exist as it does.
  • Withdraw And Replace (WAR): Become the observer of the negative state, deliberately withdraw your attention from whatever that 'I' is pointing to, and replace (re-place) your attention onto the 'I' itself that is identified.
  • If you are not present to yourself, then you are the little 'I' that is identified.
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You Can Be as Free as You're Willing to See

If you serve only yourself, you serve nothing.
If you cling only to yourself, you hold nothing.
If you hunger for the approval of others, you starve for nothing. If you wish to please only yourself, you please nothing.

If you have only possessions as pleasures, you have nothing.
If you strive only to amass wealth, you count for nothing.
If you are wise only in the ways of this world, you have learned nothing. If your heart beats only for yourself, you live for nothing.

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Student Q&A with Guy on "Transform Any Old Weakness into a New Spiritual Strength" (6/19/22)

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