Attachment

Topics covered: Letting go has nothing to do with our exterior circumstances. What we have to let go of is anything that lends us an identity; There is no such thing as a healthy attachment. When there is a challenge to the attachment, then there is fear; With awareness of the pain of an attachment comes liberation from it; Letting go begins with awareness of how much it hurts to be attached. Awareness reveals the need to let go...

Classroom Talk: 05/03/2026 -Distractions never show themselves as empty sea-shells when the promise of their shape first catches the wandering eye. Perhaps that’s why – as we stoop down, and stop to pocket yet one more weathered prize – we never really notice – let alone step into – the vast sea that has cast them onto shore.

Classroom Talk: 6/4/2023 - Part 1: We cannot know the depth and breadth of our highest, heavenly possibilities as long as we fear to explore, realize, and release all that keeps us bound to this earth. Part 2: Our unconscious conditioning goes before us every moment, acting as the unseen judge, jury, and "executioner" of each, and every moment of our life.

Classroom Talk: 3/12/2023 - 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.

Classroom Talk: 9/5/2021 - 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 questions...

Seeing the bigger picture; Resistance is identification; Bridge the gap between knowledge and being; Awareness of what you are emanating; Trying to reconcile the past; Absorbed in thought; Disassociated from your environment; Disassociation from our own bodies; All things are connected through a web of association; Believing in anything is disassociation...