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Student Q&A with Guy on "Cross the River of Dreams and Into a Higher Order of Consciousness" (6/16/24)

  • Posted: Monday, June 17, 2024
  • Meeting: Sunday, June 16, 2024

  • Duration: 45min 18sec

Topics Covered
  • The very effort to escape from a dream is itself a dream.
  • We live in a world the size of our understanding. Understanding is a momentary relationship with the consciousness within which that understanding already lives.
  • It is the nature of the seer -- the one who looks out at the world -- that is the source of unnecessary suffering.
  • Wisdom comes out of the expiration of knowledge. Self-knowledge is not static... it is wisdom.
  • "Oh God, lead us from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, from death to immortality." -- Traditional Hindu Prayer
  • When waking up from a dream, everything that you thought to be real turns out to be unreal, and everything that you thought to be good turns out to be something that contributed to the dream.
  • Resistance to reality seems to prove to us that what is unreal actually exists. It seems to prove that the dream is reality, and that reality is the illusion. Resistance seems to prove to us that the condition we are in should not be happening as it is.
  • Resistance believes that there should be an alternative to revelation, to that which has been revealed. In truth, who we really are is not separate from what has been revealed.
  • It is useless suffering to suffer over an experience that you do not want. Instead, use the experience to discover what is true about yourself as well as the real cause of the unnecessary suffering.
  • The moment that a dream is interrupted, it is replaced by a new dream, like standing in the middle of a river of dreams.
  • A shock is being awakened to the awareness that you have been asleep in a dream, dreaming that you were awake.
  • Understand the necessity of the discontinuation of the dream. Suffer for the sake of staying awake, instead of suffering uselessly in a dream that promises the end of suffering. "I don't want to dream anymore."
  • The only way that we can get negative about an injustice is that there is something within us that is without justice.
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Key Question

In the moment of any impression -- in particular a shocking one -- there is no one there to be for or against that revelation. It is pure. There is nothing outside of that moment, no separate self to measure what is revealed, let alone to resist it. And if true, then what is the nature of this false I that not only believes there is an alternate reality, but that -- on demand --  literally creates it?

Dreams Are of the Finite World

We are carried along in the stream of passing time by (our) dream that freedom from stress, strain, and struggle will be ours as soon as we reach their "promised land" of perfect security... as imagined awaits us just around the bend.

But, what we are yet to see, and must if we hope to escape our captivity in this world of seamless dreams, is the following: the shock of any painful experience is the same as being momentarily awakened to a truth we don't want to see, let alone realize: dreams are of the finite world -- and suffering is the inescapable conclusion of being identified with their illusion.

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Student Q&A with Guy on "Cross the River of Dreams and Into a Higher Order of Consciousness" (6/16/24)

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