GF Live 3-18-23 Learn This Secret Lesson And Be Set Free

Resistance recreates – and then reinstates – whatever it opposes, including the false sense of self that keeps trying – in vain -- to free itself from whatever it doesn’t want to see is true about itself!

Recorded Live: 3-18-23

Transcript

The topic is something along the lines of learn how to use the secret lessons in unwanted moments and be set free.

Now just to set the stage,

If there was a lesson in every unwanted moment of our life and we understood it,

Wouldn't we already be free?

Because as we'll look at,

The nature of resistance of not wanting certain events,

Moments,

Relationships,

The way we feel,

How we look,

It is a fairly consistent companion of ours.

And these lessons are with us in every moment.

But we don't,

I'll ask you,

How many of you learn the lesson in unwanted moments or do the unwanted moments just kind of appear like bees lining up for some pollen and a flower?

There's an old saying,

I think you're aware of it,

That when the student is ready,

The teacher appears,

And the reason that the teacher appears is to bring a lesson.

And we love the idea of,

Which by the way,

There is this infinite intelligence that we are intended to be in relationship with.

And that out of that relationship,

Brings us like raindrops on a field,

Opportunities to discover truths about our own consciousness,

That when they are welcomed and accepted in spite of the fact that so many of these lessons,

Honestly,

We just don't want.

I'm on board with any lesson that confirms my faith,

But I don't want any lesson that challenges it.

Do you?

I love when life presents circumstances that I can easily navigate,

And then I'm grateful for the capacity to do so.

But the minute I run into some kind of rocky,

Turbulent waters on that river of life,

I want to put my boat up on the shore.

I'm not interested in the nature of those waters.

I'm interested in the nature of my picnic.

So I want to talk to you about this in depth today.

Carl Jung very succinctly wrote at one point that,

Who looks outside dreams,

Who looks inside awakes,

Who looks outside dreams,

Who looks inside awakes.

So when you ache,

Where do you look?

And we know the answer.

When we ache,

The first thing that we look at is what our reaction tells us is responsible for that pain or that suffering.

And our reactions and our present relationship to the resistance inherent in them is to have our attention thrust outside of ourselves onto that person,

That comment,

That political group,

That issue,

Whatever it is.

And we are drawn,

Almost instantaneously delivered into the hands of a nature that tells us that if we can attend to the pain and what's producing it outside of us,

That we'll finally be free.

But I think it should be evident,

I hope that you see it,

We're not free.

What is reliant upon that reaction for direction in those moments is any time in our life,

Because it happens mechanically,

It happens habitually,

And our identification with it is never challenged,

Never questioned.

In spite of the fact that the lesson the teacher has been bringing all these years for eternity is that we're not using those moments of resistance to learn the real lesson in them.

So let's learn a little bit.

Let's see what Jung and all the other masters have been trying to convey down through the ages about what it means,

Who looks outside dreams,

Who looks inside,

Awakes.

Awakes to what?

This is another dream of ours.

I'm going to awaken to the love in my heart.

I'm going to awake to this beneficence.

I'm going to awake to grace.

No,

That is not the first thing that one awakens to.

Part of awakening is being drawn to realize these characters and creatures that are inherent in our consciousness that are of beauty.

But the old axiom goes that at the heart of all teachings,

That it is possible for a human being to be born again,

To enter into a relationship with another order of consciousness that cannot act against itself or another.

But in order for that man or woman,

Before that rebirth can take place,

That man or woman has to die psychologically,

Spiritually,

One has to die before one can be reborn.

And the path that is required is awakening.

Yeah,

Gino,

The truth will set you free.

And we love the idea that the truth will set us free.

But when we learn about the cost of being a man or a woman who looks inside and awakens to what?

And I'm going to,

Nellie,

Describe this.

When an individual,

For instance,

Take an addict,

We'll start with what seems to be extreme,

But you'll find out that you and I are all,

All human beings are addicted to not just the substance,

But the self,

That level of consciousness,

Its attraction to the sensation of that self.

We're addicted to thoughts and images,

Ideas,

And the contrary conditions they produce with life challenges them.

Take an addict,

An addict can't see that he's been blind.

No addict can see they're blind.

If you've ever had a problem with drugs or,

Or substances,

Maybe a problem with jealousy or anger,

A problem with overwhelming fear,

Anxiety,

You and I know as sure as heck that when we are suddenly seized by whatever that condition is,

Which is always in some immediate form of feeling inadequate or resisting,

The split second that that comes,

What happens to us?

In those moments,

We cannot see that what is working on us and through us in those moments is somehow or other has us involved in an unseen complicity and a dark arrangement with an unconscious nature.

And that for our identification with that nature,

Which we could just call addiction,

Addicted to being and believing in who and what we've been,

Because who and what we've been naturally holds within that line of imagination,

The idea of freedom to come.

So if you want to look at it that way,

We can say that we're actually addicted to the idea of becoming and everything that keeps us from becoming as we've imagined to be is seen as some kind of obstruction in what we believe is our right.

And when we run into those moments that seem to obstruct our sense of security,

Our sense of well-being,

What happens to us?

We are instantaneously remanded over to this no,

To this resistance,

To this denial.

And then out of that resistance and denial from that reaction,

We are guided,

As it were,

By our anxiety,

Our fear or our worry to what that nature tells us will release us from the condition.

And that consciousness is not interested in releasing us from the condition it creates.

It is interested in seeing that we remain a captive of that consciousness so that it's,

And that's key here,

So that its identity,

Its sense of self can continue unhindered.

And the way we can know that this isn't who we are,

In spite of how strongly it feels like it is to us,

Is that that consciousness,

Pure and simple,

Is bent on our destruction,

Is not an addict of any kind.

Someone who,

Whether it's food,

Drugs,

Drink,

Or ideas or images or self-love,

Is not an addict of any kind on the path to self-destruction,

Because that man or woman will resist anything that reveals to them the actual condition of their consciousness.

And this is what we must awaken to.

This is the awakening that begins the process of negation,

Of bringing an end to our unconscious love of sensation,

Of attachment,

Of identification that we don't know we have,

And that the lessons in life all through time for us are trying to bring to us an awareness that there is a direct relationship that we have between these moments of resistance and some unseen form of addiction that we have to whatever that idea,

Image,

Or sense of self may be.

So let's look at this together.

I'm going to ask you to chime in here on the board,

If you will,

In a split second.

What do you think is our most common sensation for the majority of us in the majority of time?

What do you think is the most common sensation that we have?

If you want to put it over here,

We can look at anger,

That's fear,

Anxiety,

Self-love,

Fear,

Fear,

Okay,

Fear,

Yeah,

Tension,

Resistance,

Rejection,

Worry,

What was that?

Self-hate,

Irritation.

Okay,

This is great.

At least we didn't write on that board,

My most common sensation is compassion.

My most common sensation is kindness.

No,

Every last one of these things that went up on the board for those of you that were willing to go ahead and post it,

Point to one thing and one thing only.

And we know the answer by looking at these responses.

Is most of our experience spent being happy with others,

With our self,

With our place in the scheme of things?

Is that most of our experience of life?

Or is most of our experience,

As indicated by all of these answers that you wrote down,

Is most of our experience have something to do with finding what's wrong with life,

With resisting it,

With the thing that I fear and the place that I am?

So that our most common experience,

Though we don't see most of it because it's so underground and habitual to us,

The most common experience,

The most common sensation that we have in life is mostly with what we don't want in those moments.

And that resistance that comes from not wanting.

So that resistance is the most common experience that we have in life.

Just look at it with me.

Do you think a lesson will repeat itself until lessons are going to repeat themselves until they're learned?

That's the whole point.

What's the lesson in resistance?

You know,

I'm personally,

I've been studying,

And I don't mean reading about,

I mean contemplating,

Delving into exploring the nature of resistance for well over 50 years.

And I'm,

I'm always surprised at the depth at which the nature responsible for resistance and our unconscious relationship to it,

How adept it is at hiding itself by misdirecting our attention toward what that consciousness blames for the pain of that resistance so that we never are present enough to use the lesson of that resistance to realize the real source of it,

To go within in the moment of resistance,

Instead of look without and then try to figure what to do about what is outside of us to free us from that pain.

Peter,

You can re-listen to the beginning.

This is recast again,

And it's recast on my website as well.

Sometimes these things can be annoying.

And much to the point,

Peter,

We're talking about resistance,

And it is our dominant experience of life.

So many,

As Peter points out,

Large and small instances where,

Yes or no,

We summarily resist unexpected moments like computer problems or a site that won't let us log in,

Or someone looking at me through eyes that are not exactly attractive.

And why,

Why is that,

That we have this summary resistance to anything that doesn't look like it's going to flow and go the way we want it to go?

Because the simple matter is that we're conditioned to believe that the way we see things going into them is how they're supposed to unfold.

In other words,

If life doesn't go the way I've imagined it's supposed to go,

Then I have a problem with life.

If life doesn't go the way I imagine it's supposed to go,

Then I have a problem with life.

See,

That's the refusal of the lesson,

Isn't it?

Is the problem with life,

Or is the problem that I live from in a dream?

I live from something that doesn't know.

It goes before me to lay down the blocks that are called,

What's the better life,

And I need to step on them accurately all the way down the screen.

Or I can begin to recognize that the last thing that this consciousness wants to do is to understand that its problem with life isn't because life is a problem.

Did you,

Did you know,

I just spell this out ever so quickly,

I had a note over here,

Each and every moment as it unfolds,

Unfolds with all possibilities.

There is no moment that as it takes place,

Doesn't bring with it perfect potentiality for any and all possible experiences.

And if that's true,

That every moment holds within it all possibilities,

Literally,

Then the moment itself can never be the problem.

It's impossible.

Can you see that?

Every moment is new,

But we don't see every moment is new because every moment for us is compared by and taken into a consciousness that is already designed for itself,

Made a kingdom in the image of itself.

And when the,

When the life,

Which is always new,

Doesn't match what we think life should be as imagined new,

We have a problem with life.

And then we resist what we say is the moment or the person or the place,

Instead of recognizing the resistance to that moment is trying to awaken us to the fact that we are outside of life,

We are outside of God's life.

We are outside the will of the divine that never stops bringing a new conception into,

That never stops revealing itself as a new conception in every moment.

You and I do not have the joy,

The peace of mind,

The revelation of being made a new creature in every single moment,

Because every single moment is met by something in us that doesn't want the moment that doesn't match what we want.

So if you're following me,

Then you can see,

Given this consciousness that we're by and large unaware of,

That's what all spiritual work is about.

That's what Jung and every teacher points to the idea we must go within and awaken,

Awaken to the fact that we are in a dream,

We're asleep.

And then to start using those moments,

Those,

Those moments of root awakening,

What we call a root awakening to realize there is a lesson in this moment of awakening,

If I am capable of receiving it.

This level of consciousness,

Our present level of consciousness,

Doesn't know what to do with the experience of itself.

What do you think all the thinking is about?

We've been talking about that in the talks that I give online.

They're free by the way,

You're welcome to join anytime.

We've been talking about the fact that all of this thinking,

This dialogue,

This conversation with ourselves,

What's the point of all of it?

We certainly haven't learned the lesson that it doesn't lead anywhere.

And what we've looked at and what we're exploring even now is that all of that conversation with ourself,

All of that thinking,

Thinking,

Thinking,

It is trying to resolve some disturbance in the past.

It's trying to figure out how it can find the peace it imagines it lost when real life interfered with the imagined life it has.

So it doesn't know what to do with the experience of itself.

All it knows to do when it runs into something it doesn't want is to try to reformulate,

Reshuffle the cards of content so that it can come up with another plan,

Failing to see that the plan fails because it belongs to a consciousness that we have failed to understand its role in our life.

And it does have a role in our life as we're going to look at.

If we understand at all what I'm pointing to here,

And I'll ask you if you're following me,

Does it not point to the need,

The real need for developing a completely new and different relationship with resistance?

A completely new relationship with resistance.

What's the greatest lesson across the board,

By the way,

Not just in the New Testament,

The Old Testament,

The Bhagavad Gita,

The Vedanta,

What's the lesson?

Not my will,

But thy will be done.

In other words,

Here I am and I'm full of resistance,

But I can recognize that what I'm being given in this moment that I'm resisting is actually an opportunity to be awakened to something that's between me and the flow,

The divine flow,

Between me and the freedom inherent in being a newly made creature moment to moment.

That's what this talk is about.

What kind of new relationship can I have?

What kind of new relationship can I have with resistance when I even consider the thought of it and I resist it?

What do you mean a new relationship with resistance?

I don't like it and that's enough.

I don't like you.

There's something wrong with you.

I hate what's happening in the world.

That proves I'm a good,

Peaceful person.

No,

No,

Resistance and the unconscious identification with it only proves that we're asleep because we've never learned the lesson in that resistance because we're always in the wrong relationship with it.

That's our talk.

That's what we're going to look at together.

So take a nice deep breath.

We need,

If you will,

New knowledge,

New self-knowledge,

Not something from a book,

Not something from a teacher,

But something that we ourselves are willing to set sail and leave the shore of what is known and head off into those waters where we might,

Through our willingness to explore them,

Learn something about the consciousness that is those waters that we're forever sailing upon.

Here we go.

We got 15,

16 minutes left.

We should be able to do this.

Try to see this with me now.

As above,

So below.

That means that what is creative and coming into passing time is expressed through the manifestations that it brings into passing time so that what is divine is reflected and hidden in the common.

And we can use what is common to understand the divine.

And we can use,

In this instance,

The idea that by the very nature of its form,

Every creature desires,

In quotes,

To remain the same.

Everything wants to remain the same.

It's part of a law.

There's an inertia,

A gravity.

So the blade of grass wants to remain the blade of grass that it is.

But when the sun acts upon the blade of grass,

The will of that light and the other side of the grass that requires the energy in order to be transformed,

It yields its resistance to the sun.

You wouldn't see the grass itself.

You wouldn't see the color of the grass if it weren't for the resistance in the grass.

So everything resists the will,

The touch of the divine.

All creations,

By the very fact that the will of something active is coming and touching what is passive,

Then resists summarily what touches them.

But in nature,

The blade of grass,

The fawn,

The bird,

The tree,

In nature,

They can't resist in any meaningful form the transformation that the active force on the passive body produces.

And they go through a constant form of rebirth,

Never-endingly being transformed in this beautiful relationship of perfect reconciliation from the highest high to the lowest low.

Nature has to accept the changes that are being enacted on it by the will of,

In one respect,

Nature,

As God would will that nature.

Can I see in the corner over here,

Can you see that with me?

Everything naturally resists.

Now on the other hand,

We find ourselves constantly not just experiencing the inescapable experience of resistance.

Please,

This should somehow sink in to your heart and mind.

The inescapable experience of resistance.

We have been conditioned,

Brainwashed to believe that it's possible for us to buy our way out of,

Push our way through life in such a way that we finally have nothing left that we resist.

That's what the idea of ambition is,

Of wealth.

I'm going to get to a place where nothing bothers me.

How are you doing with that lesson?

The more you have that you believe is going to keep you from resisting life,

The more you resist life that shows you you have nothing like you've imagined.

It's poetry.

Our life is meant to be God's poetry,

An unending series of couplets born out of a connection to another order of being where for our participation in the endless stream of that which is active,

Divine,

The will of what is celestial,

That we experience consistently a nature that is old the moment that it is created.

But a nature that is old,

That is instantly created,

Meaning that is created the instant it comes to existence,

Is being acted on by the same forces that brought it into existence.

And that consciousness,

That nature,

It resists as surely as the blade of grass not only resists but reveals the light that acts upon it,

So does this consciousness,

Our nature,

Resist the light,

The living light,

Intended to reveal it to itself.

The blade of grass never knows that it is a living creation,

In some respects eternal in its principle,

Limited by its form.

We're limited by our form,

But we are eternal in the principle that allows this form,

This nature,

This consciousness,

To consistently being acted on so that we can understand the nature of that action that we do not understand now.

We think when life acts on us and brings us what we don't want,

That life is cruel and things shouldn't be that way,

And then we spend our lives sticking our chin out and getting all stiff,

Trying to make life into the image we have of it,

And we're dead in the water when we do that because we are living consistently from this resistance that rejects the lesson in the moment.

Can you see,

Gosh time goes so quickly,

Can you see that any form of knee-jerk resistance changes absolutely nothing about the consciousness responsible for that knee-jerk reaction?

You've never had a negative reaction that has changed the consciousness that you identify with responsible for that reaction.

It never happened,

And yet every time that reaction comes up,

Every time you look out two minutes in the future or 20 years or 10 minutes or 20 years back,

Every time,

Boom,

There's that reaction,

And that reaction tells me what's true,

And I'm all on board with resisting the very thing my own mind has brought to itself.

Resisting the revelation,

Because we kind of keep going here,

That I've been trying to separate myself from these events for millennia.

Haven't you?

Isn't that what control is,

Is trying to separate myself from the unwanted experience of resisting the moment?

That's what trying to change other people is all about?

Changing myself,

Isn't that what changing myself is about?

The way I imagine I should be,

Meaning the way that I am,

And then behaving the way I am,

And therefore I'm going to imagine yet another level of myself.

Resistance changes nothing unless resistance is realized as part of the trinity of forces required for change.

Resistance as a naked force thrown at the moment that challenges the image or identity we have of ourselves,

All that does,

That resistance ensures is that we'll never learn the lesson in that moment.

And here's the other thing,

Believe me,

Just so you know,

I understand,

I understand.

You begin to want to understand resistance,

And I have about seven,

Eight minutes left,

So I'm going to give you some specifics here,

You begin to realize,

Sweet God,

I'm,

And I'm using the words carefully,

I'm a resistance machine.

But we could flip that around and say,

Well,

Wait a minute,

If I'm a resistance machine,

Then that means I'm a machine of insistence,

That there's something in me that can't possibly resist a moment without first insisting that that moment be as I've imagined it needs to be.

Hopefully,

Trinity,

I'll be able to answer,

Nellie,

I'll be able to answer your question.

I'm trying to.

So here is what is active,

That's part of the trinity.

Here is what is passive,

The created form.

And when what is active meets what is passive,

There is a natural resistance,

Push your hands together.

Active,

Passive,

Push them together.

And you can see that when you push them together,

What is passive and what is active,

They can't change each other.

And yet,

When you put them together,

There is a new force there,

There is something taking place between them.

We are made aware of that pressure.

We are made aware of each of these things individually,

Selectively,

Collectively,

Creates something new,

Reconciles the opposing forces.

But we mistakenly believe that it is our responsibility to reconcile the force of resistance that we feel when we are not created ourselves to be able to,

In quotes,

Deal with and handle the condition we blame for that resistance.

The resistance is part of our renewal,

But it will never be known as part of our renewal,

Meaning part of the process of it,

As long as we allow our mind to tell us what to blame for the pain in that resistance.

And there is pain and resistance.

Life itself has suffering in it.

And not just because we're identified with the things we are,

But because whatever comes into creation requires something dies.

Nothing is,

No energy is created nor destroyed,

Only transformed.

In that ceaseless transformation,

There is an endless sacrifice of what is going to give its life up so it can be made into something new to reveal the divine maker.

Yeah,

We are in a way guided missiles,

But not guided by God,

Guided by an unconscious nature that already has its sights on a destination,

On an idea of what we're meant to be,

And that when something interferes with that,

That's when we go off.

So let me keep going here,

I've only got a few minutes left.

So what's our first action here?

When something happens,

Instantaneously,

I'm going to separate myself from this.

That's what blame is.

Blame is how that consciousness brings us into a place where we resist the lesson.

We don't get the lesson itself.

It's a complete dead end.

Blaming is a complete dead end.

Why?

Because for one thing,

Resistance can't learn anything.

I've spoken about that for years.

Show me how resistance learns something.

Resistance brings up a binary reaction.

Fight or flight.

You can't learn by fighting,

Because you're fighting to protect the very thing that created the resistance.

And you certainly can't learn or discover anything new by running from it.

We learn by entering into the condition that is part of our consciousness,

And explore our consciousness subsequently,

So that we grow.

We must learn to recognize this resistance when it comes up.

The moment we feel any form of constriction in the body,

Any time the mind,

The heart suddenly feels any form of being seized,

Oh my God,

What's that?

Now what?

Any form of,

Oh,

You know,

It's not looking too good tomorrow.

How am I going to get through this?

Every last one of those thoughts paints the pain as being a product of what may come along,

Or has come along,

To interfere with this consciousness that has imagined itself into existence.

And when this consciousness imagines itself into existence,

How does it do that?

What is the nature of that?

Please see this with me,

Because I've got to bring the talk to an end here.

What's going on in those moments is that instead of recognizing this resistance is the revelation of attachment,

Instead we allow the consciousness that has that resistance to strengthen our attachment to the very thing that's causing that pain.

That's how we use the lesson in resistance,

To be present enough,

As difficult as it will be for you,

To come to an interior stop and realize,

Here's this resistance.

What am I resisting?

I'm resisting anything that challenges who I think I am.

I resist anyone who looks at me and doesn't give me the confirming glance that approves of me.

I resist everything that interferes with what I am identified with and attached to.

So that resistance is actually the invitation on the part of this divine flow for me to recognize that I can't resist a moment without being identified with something from my past,

With some image,

That were it not for me being attached to whatever that may be,

I couldn't be resisting that which challenges it.

Resistance is the revelation of identification,

And it is the revelation of what we are identified with that we don't know we're identified with.

And ultimately,

It is the revelation of a consciousness that has no identity apart from how it divides itself up into what it wants and doesn't want.

We can use the resistance.

It can strengthen our faith instead of drive us,

Compel us to find something new to believe in,

A new faith and a new plan and a new personality that I'm going to finally cultivate.

Who likes being used?

Do you?

Resistance is a way in which an unconscious nature uses our life to validate its identity.

And its identity is a derivative of what it has imagined it needs to be and what it wants to get away from in order to finally realize whatever it has imagined it should be.

I'm at 42 minutes.

Yes,

Angela,

We're talking about a complete transformation.

In order to be reborn,

To be born,

To know birth,

I must pass.

But now we know what it is that must pass.

And what it is that must pass is our present unconscious relationship with an unconscious nature.

When at last we begin to awaken and realize the lesson in resistance,

That nature that has been using us then becomes something we use.

This is what Christ meant by He prepares a feast in the presence of my enemy,

Where before I was used without knowing it,

Now I am able to use through my new knowledge everything that will allow me to enter into one new kingdom after another because I am born into it consistently.

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