Student Q&A with Guy on "The Wisdom and the Will to Transcend All Self-Limiting Reactions" (5/8/22)

The last thing that occurs to you when you are negative is doubt about the reasons for the negativity. Doubt should be the first thing that occurs to you.

Honesty and genuine humility are directly connected to each other.

The possibilities of a negative reaction are limited to the content of the consciousness that is embroiled in the reaction.

A negative reaction comes with a corresponding identity that does not question who it is or what it is doing.

Mechanical negative reactions try to resolve the disturbances that they are stirred by. At those moments there is no conscious "me" there trying to resolve those disturbances, just a mechanical reaction.

Moments that challenge an identity are immediately met with a defensive attitude.

What we call our actions are actually reactions, which explains why we reincarnate the same consciousness over and over again.

The separating of the wheat from the chaff is an interior process in which -- through interior work -- we are separated from old content from which we derive an identity.

Living in a matrix of strong sensations is not the same as being consciously alive.

A judgmental reaction does not see the actual condition in the real world, but instead it sees an image that is based on old content that is produced by the mind.

To really SEE something is to BE with what you see, so that ultimately there is no difference between you and what you see.

We live in an almost ceaseless state of negativity, which is why it takes so little to trigger it.

Nothing can change in our lives for the better as long as our identity is derived from negative reactions.

A sense of self does not care about the nature of the sensation that brings it to life, even if it is a torment.

In an unwanted moment, suspend identification with the negative reaction, and doubt the validity of the negativity, along with its corresponding identity.

WISDOM SCHOOL

Student Q&A with Guy on "The Wisdom and the Will to Transcend All Self-Limiting Reactions" (5/8/22)