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Student Q&A with Guy on "Realize the Perfect Security of a Power that Is Not of this World" (12/13/23)
Posted: Thursday, December 14, 2023
Meeting: Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Duration: 18min 52sec
Topics Covered
The only way it is possible to want to avoid any moment is that we are asleep to the possibilities in that same moment.
Our powers that we imagine we possess abandon us whenever we need them the most.
The mind's endless juggling is about trying to find a way to get past disturbances to the place of peace it has imagined in a time to come.
The endless struggle is about trying to gain the powers necessary to restore peace and security.
The want of power comes out of the fear of not having power. There is no end to the need to acquire that kind of power.
There is not one sleeping human being that has power. And yet in our sleep we think that other people have power over us, and therefore we must acquire power over them.
"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want" from Psalm 23 was alluding to not wanting for any power that promises to grant us peace in this world. The writer was alluding to another kind of power that is not of this world.
In the story of the knight rescuing the princess, the other-worldly solution was this understanding: "I asked that I might be given the power to see through the illusion of whatever I fear."
One common painful mistake that we make is to search for powers that will hopefully help us to never again make a mistake.
Everything changes, and yet the only way that we can see that everything changes is if there already exists something that is unmoving. Everything that moves and changes is in the only place it can be. The task is to see.
The only way that we can be aware of any temporary thing that moves through consciousness is if there exists something permanent and timeless that those things move through.
You do not need power to let go of an anxious negative state. You don’t need power to let go of something that only has power because you are running from it.
"For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control." -- Paul's Letter to Timothy, New Testament
When you are talking to yourself, you believe that you initiated the conversation. The attempt to find a power to stop the inner dialog is the continuation of your participation in it.
You want power over your own thoughts so that they will stop tormenting you. The illusion that causes the torment is that they are YOUR thoughts.
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