The mind asleep to itself doesn't realize it creates the stress and strain it can't stop trying to rescue itself from; and that the more it struggles to think of a way out of its self-induced conflict, the greater grows its struggle.

The mind asleep to itself doesn't realize that it created the problem that it can't stop trying to resolve; and that the more it struggles to try and think through a solution to its self-induced conflict, the greater grows its struggle to escape that suffering.

Student Talks: 9/18/2019 - Key Lesson: Awakening to the truth of oneself serves one purpose: dying to oneself. Dying to oneself serves one purpose: rebirth. And rebirth is... the purpose and fulfillment of all relationships.

Student Talks: 8/9/2019 - Key Lesson: The power of any unwanted moment to "punish" us is directly proportionate to the extent of our unseen resistance to it.

Topics covered: Feeling tested and running into limitation; What is spiritual growth; We feel inconvenienced by life; In the same way we have a physical appetite we also have a psychological appetite; We are human ruminants; You see but don't see, you hear but don't hear, you touch but don't touch; Nature uses resistance for her perfection...