Attention

Topics covered:  You can't know with your mind what is calling you to make the interior journey that saints and sages have spoken about; "Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there." -- Jalal al-Din Rumi -- "For he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." -- New Testament -- These two passages are essentially saying the same thing; Part of the interior journey is to enter into another order of being that allows for the opposites to pass through its field of awareness, but is never defined by those opposites.

Where is tomorrow's fear other than in today's imagination? And, if this is true -- and IT IS -- then what to do with our attention in the here and now? Let it be swallowed up in the dark shadow of what "may be"...or hold it in the Light of awareness where no shadow can dwell, let alone its fear?

Student Talks: 9/27/2024 - Key Lesson: You are a creation of the Deep; drawn to explore not just an unknowable mystery, but to take an unimaginable journey into the depths of an unnameable Being...and all without having to take a single step outside of yourself.

If we can't give the whole of our attention to someone -- or, for that matter, to any moment -- then we can't listen. If we can't listen, we can't possibly hear the whole story. And if we can't hear the whole story, then how can we ever hope to understand, let alone realize our actual role in it.

Classroom Talk: 8/14/2024 - There is only one requirement if our wish is to "boldly go where no one has gone before"...and that is to realize that not only are we the explorer, but the new frontier is either found within us, or not at all.

Topics covered: We are more concerned with how we are being perceived than in being attentive to where we are and to each step that we take; Not wanting to be where you are is the same as not seeing how you just stepped into where you are. It is your attention takes you to the place that you don't want to be; What is it that keeps us reliving what we don't like? Because we keep giving ourselves reasons why it is necessary to relive it...

Classroom Talk: 6/5/2024 - Every step along the path (of life) is the first -- and the last -- for anyone who chooses to walk in the silent light of higher self-understanding.

Topic: Realize the Unseen Relationship Between Meditation and Self-Realization (Classroom Talk 5/1/24)

Student Talks: 10/27/2023 - Key Lesson: Any time the mind makes a "package" out of some unwanted moment -- wrapping its reaction (to it) in familiar troubled thoughts, and negative feelings -- it does so at the cost of exchanging a priceless gift it's been given... in favor of giving itself another painful experience (of itself) that it doesn't know it's created for itself!

Topics covered: As goes my attention, so comes my experience. As comes my experience, so comes my sense of self. If my sense of self has fallen into what I don't want, then I AM what I don't want; Negative reactions kill all other possibilities. Negative reactions collapse one's experience into a very limited field; "Divinity is our birthright. God nods to God from behind each of us. But let us remember, divinity is behind our failures and follies also"...

Student Talks: 6/30/2023 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Enlightenment is instantaneous, but keeping the lights on is another story altogether! Part 2: Intention is the front runner of a race yet to be run, a new order of will yet to be tested, but waiting to be realized.

Topics covered: Our consciousness is our circumstance... a spiritual fact that we can't hear enough and can't experience enough; Something within us is the first to judge us right after that very same nature does something harmful; Your mind can't wait to place your attention on something you don't want. If your attention doesn't belong to you, then you will experience exactly what you don't want.