Get Off the Bus to Nowhere: A New Year's Eve Bonfire Message

Posted: Monday, January 6, 2025
Meeting: Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Duration: 25min 19sec

Summary

In this short talk given on New Year's Eve, Guy Finley talks about the greatest mystery of this work, which is that the mind always wants to be in motion because it's trying to reconcile the disturbance from not being what I am, where I am, using thought in an attempt to reconcile the present disturbance with a future promise.

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As you begin to see that thoughts lead you through an endless cycle of promises, you begin to say, "I don't want to go there. I don't want to go into anger, ambition, possessions, tomorrow, having an enemy, into what may or may not take place. I don't want to go there and I'm not going to go there."

Thoughts are the way desire dresses itself, and are always connected to some motion that created it.

Thoughts have no power until they are dressed in an image, and the minute you step on that path of thought, you have left the one place it's possible to see the temptation of the future.

The greatest mystery of this work is that the mind always wants to be in motion because it's trying to reconcile the disturbance from not being what I am, where I am, and thinking the mind will reconcile this disturbance further downstream in the future.

Your mind is in a constant state of thought, which is bred by conflict, which it tries to bring an end to but can't.

Thoughts are always connected to a tomorrow where you'll be free of the conflict inherent in that consciousness.

"Lead us not into temptation" means let me see where I'm tempted to try to complete myself, and that I only do that when I feel incomplete.

Thought can't direct anything because it itself is being directed by the desire to escape its own pain.

Inherent in any thought or disturbance is that I have to do something. But you're not intended to be going anywhere at all, because the future is just a derivation of the past.

Not wanting to be afraid IS the fear.

You're not intended to go someplace, you're intended to see the parts of yourself that are never content where you are with what you have. If you see you can't go anywhere you are left as you are without a future directed by a thought, and you will see something new.

When you say, "I'm not going to go there," you are left in a true crucible. You will see what has been talking to you your whole life, which brings a clarity, and in that clarity, a new action.

What's the first thing offered to you when you have pain, sorrow, or fear? A solution from that nature. When you don't take it, you ask for something that can't be given to you any other way, which is clarity about your situation.

You are possessed by a nature that is possessed by the love of itself and that also includes the hate of itself.

There's nothing you'll ever do to save yourself. You don't need to be saved from thought, you need to be saved by seeing the incessant, constant identification with thought and its old patterns, its old pains.

Your work is to see, not to succeed. Then you'll learn about a different kind of success that's already built into you and that is with you wherever you are.

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Get Off the Bus to Nowhere: A New Year's Eve Bonfire Message

Posted by Guy Finley in 459 Galice Road, Merlin, OR 97532 on Monday, January 6, 2025 , and updated on Monday, January 6, 2025 .

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