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Student Q&A with Guy on "Self-Liberation Requires This Self-Realization" (9/23/20)
Posted: Friday, September 25, 2020
Meeting: Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Duration: 30min 16sec
Topics Covered
There exists a freedom that can't be won through struggle
Everything that is whole is unspeakable, and cannot be fully comprehended by the intellect
What one thing in our life always shows up unannounced and ruins any moment in which it appears? The answer is: negative reactions
The pain of not wanting a moment IS the pain we experience in that moment
All mental and emotional pain is the result of a moment of time in which "what is" runs into something in us that resists its appearance. Each of those moments presents an identity crisis because the moment seems to threaten something that lives within us that we have unknowingly identified with
Only "what isn't" fights with "what is." That means that if we are living in conflict, or fighting with life, then we are living from "what isn't," from imagination
In our consciousness is something that hates. Something lives in us that has extreme ill-will towards the Will of God
The original meaning of "resist not evil" is "do not oppose what opposes you"
Are you tired of feeling threatened whenever conditions don't go the way you think they should? And what is this "me" that feels threatened? These are real questions that lead to real freedom
Whenever a moment doesn't turn out the way a part of our consciousness believes it should, the pain that we feel seems to validate and justify our belief
Blame is how the consciousness that fights with life remains hidden
The level of consciousness that is in conflict cannot be seen by thought
The consciousness that is in pain depends upon us not wanting it in order to maintain its position of authority over us
We have to stop lending our life to the incessant struggle of trying to change people and events so that we can live undisturbed
What do we do with the pain that we don't want, when "not wanting" IS the pain we are in? Accepting the revelation of that as a fact is the answer
We can't say "This isn't how the moment is supposed to be" without already unconsciously knowing how the moment is supposed to be
We can't imagine real freedom; the freedom that we imagine is a prison
There is nothing wrong with the day other than not wanting it to be the way it is
The level of consciousness that can't see actually creates the conditions that it then tries to escape
The "you" that wants to do something about the pain is the source of it. When you see that, you are the one who witnesses the moment instead of trying to manipulate it
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