Attachment

Student Talks: 3/17/2023 - Key Lesson: Before we can hope to stop reliving any unwanted moment from our past, we must see that our experience of it is inseparable from how we ourselves have named it.

Topics covered: The moment that a reaction gets named you have been set up to have a painful moment, because that consciousness resists the very reaction that it has named; Revelation of resistance is the release from the captivity of that resistance; "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." -- William Shakespeare; An object or a condition cannot exist...

Topic: Lessons in Liberation from the Great Mandala of Life (Classroom Talk 2/1/23)

Topics covered: "A house divided cannot stand." This is referring to the consciousness that sets itself against what it sees as being separate from itself; Negative reactions are the evidence of an unseen contradiction in our consciousness that puts us into conflict against people and events that are blamed for the negativity; Whatever is offered on the level of thought as the resolution to conflict is the...

Classroom Talk: 2/1/2023 - All psychological suffering is born of unconscious resistance to life; it is the bitter fruit of the futile attempt to prove that our sense of self exists outside of the conditions that give rise to its revelation.

Topic: The Strength You Need to Say Goodbye to Any Personal Weakness (Classroom Talk 5/18/22)

Topics covered: We change for the better only in proportion to our willingness to accept what is revealed to us about ourselves; There cannot be any useless suffering without unconscious identification; The root of all suffering is within consciousness, not within the thing outside of ourselves that is blamed for the pain; There is no intelligence in identification with a reaction...

Classroom Talk: 5/18/2022 - All attachments are secret heartaches disguised as lovers.

Student Talks: 9/10/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Let every disappointment in life be as the lighted wick of a lamp to first illuminate, and then to consume the attachment now revealed. Part 2: The beginning and the end of all true religion is one thing: surrender. Which begs the question: Surrender of what... and to what? The one who finds the answer to these two seemingly separate...

Topics Covered: One of the biggest problems we all have is that we think we already know the answers; Surrender has nothing to do with trying to escape from yourself. True surrender belongs to another order of consciousness; Because we are incomplete we cannot help but treat other people incompletely; When what we have imagined will make us happy does not make us happy...

Topic: Wake Up and Walk Out of the Painful World of Endless Wanting (3/3/21 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 3/3/2021 - The mind, emptied of its attachments, fears nothing, while the mind full of wanting and not wanting spends all of its time afraid of... everything.