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In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley dives deeply into the concepts of "joy and happiness," noting the important distinction between imagined "joy" and the kind of joy that is the natural outcome of life's authentic wholeness. Imagined joy turns into painful resistance to anything that interferes with the image. Seeing this with more and more clarity is freedom from the stressful compulsion to pursue an imagined happiness.
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Classroom Talk: 03/09/2025 - We can't change others – or, for that matter, the purpose of any given moment as it unfolds – but we can work to place one less demand on both. Only in this action can we hope to find the freedom for which we seek, because the only thing that imprisons us – in the end – is our resistance to whatever runs against our deeply seated demands.
Topics covered: Do you know a "friend" who is always promising some order of freedom, but who is never able to deliver on the promise? You would drop that friend immediately, wouldn't you? So why won't you drop the interior "friend" that is always whispering promises in your ear?; Anything that you see in nature is not separate from the nature that created it. Anything that is created is...
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Classroom Talk: 10/4/2020 - Part 1: Any form of (psychological) suffering that looks back into the past for its "cause" -- or to the future, in the hope of some imagined freedom to come -- isn't just useless, it's wasted. Part 2: Here is the real "secret" of starting over: No moment in life can be any newer than we are willing to be as it dawns within us...
Topics Covered: My relationship to life is that I want something from it so I try to take it, but the real premise of life is to receive; The mind never stops; Nature's creatures represent principles we are meant to embody; We are always within conscience; Freedom is ceaseless atonement; A stranger in a strange land; Everything that carries me away feels urgent and critical; The birthing of in...
Topics covered: Freedom is the unconditional acceptance of the experience of yourself as you are in the moment; Transformation is not a process that involves a destination. Transformation is a process of conversion; Our consciousness cannot see by itself. In order to see itself it needs the light that dwells in the darkness; The purpose of inner work is to change your relationship with your own consciousness.
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