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.

Topics covered: Dreams of freedom are the very captivity that you are struggling to free yourself from; As your consciousness changes, so does the world that it creates; What is seen does not owe its existence to what is visible. Faith is understanding that what we see is rooted in what is unseen; The real struggle is to stop giving your attention away, because lack of attention produces the painful sense...

Topic: Use Any Troubling Moment to Realize the Truth that Sets You Free (Classroom Talk 2/8/23)

Topics covered: Your experience of life cannot be separated from what your consciousness is attending to in each moment; It seems natural to give our attention to whatever it is that asks for it. This is how we so often end up experiencing so-called unwanted moments; The unattended mind never stops looking for something to judge; Familiarity breeds contempt as the mind revisits and resists...

Classroom Talk: 2/8/2023 - All careless actions are the creation of an unconscious nature unable to care about anything other than what it wants... which always involves how to resolve, or otherwise avoid dealing with the outcome of the last careless action it took!

Topic: Transforming the Present Moment into a Living Prayer (Classroom Talk 1/11/23)

Topics covered: We meet life through our understanding of it. If we want to change our experience of life, then we will first need to change our understanding of it; We psychologically chain people to our demands whenever they don't do what we want them to do; Your attention is a form of request. Everything that you attend to, even if you are not aware of it, is a form of prayer...

Classroom Talk: 1/11/2023 - Just being fully present to yourself negates 95% of your missteps in life; the other 5% of the time, when you have to pick yourself up off the ground, serves to remind you of how important it is to always be watchful of "where" you are, and "who" is talking to you as you walk through life.

Student Talks: 10/14/2022 - Key Lesson: Without an anchor, a ship is carried off by any shallow current or wave that passes beneath its bow. And so it is with us... as long as we try to navigate through this life without being able to anchor our attention in a place of our own choosing.