Topics Covered: There exists a freedom that can't be won through struggle; Everything that is whole is unspeakable, and cannot be fully comprehended by the intellect; What one thing in our life always shows up unannounced and ruins any moment in which it appears? The answer is: negative reactions; The pain of not wanting a moment IS the pain we experience in that moment...

Classroom Talk: 9/23/2020 - Any "certainty" born of ascribing a negative meaning to an unwanted moment, or that goes on to imagine that moment as a prelude to even more painful times to come, is a false conclusion arrived at by a false self... creating a false sense of captivity.

Topic: 3 Words to Help Reveal and Release You From Any Fear (6/14/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: 3 Words to Help Reveal and Release You From Any Fear (6/14/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 6/14/2020 - Our true nature can no more be threatened, let alone diminished by any event in time than can the timeless light of our sun be darkened, or overwhelmed by one of its own beams.

Topics Covered: Waiting for the other shoe to drop; Catch a glimpse of the message; Wisdom never dies; Protecting yourself from your own mortality is a fool's errand; Opposites come out of a unity; Recognize that the reaction is the answer to the challenge of the moment; Struggle consciously to wait where the message can reach you; Don't try to free yourself, that is what reactions do...

Student Talks: 6/7/2019 - Key Lesson: No image is alive. If the pictures we cling to had the power to satisfy the desire that creates them, then a picture of food would ease our hunger, and painting a smile on the reflection of our face in a mirror would help console our broken heart.

Topic: How to See and Free Yourself From the Prison of "Another Pointless Conversation" (3/17/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: How to See and Free Yourself From the Prison of "Another Pointless Conversation" (3/17/19 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 3/3/2019 - The "power" we need -- the grace of higher awareness -- to transcend the conflict and stress inherent in a troubled, lower level of consciousness -- is granted in direct proportion to our realization that there's only one true solution that can end its suffering, as well as our own: we must become an impersonal witness of it.