Topics Covered: There is another, higher level of consciousness that is present for us in any moment that we are able to observe ourselves; We as human beings are created with the capacity to be aware of the divided level of consciousness that reacts with fight or flight; What we blame for our reaction cannot be separated from the consciousness that is having that reaction...

Topics Covered: Presently our life is filled with trying to get what we want so that we don't have to feel any kind of discomfort; Every want that we have comes with a feeling that the moment should not be the way that it is; Of ourselves we do not possess the power to be at peace. We can imagine that we have that power, but peace is not something that comes as a result of something...

Topics Covered: You are the treasure you seek, but yet "you" are nothing like you think yourself to be; No painful negative reaction can be separated from an imagined sense of self. And there cannot be a negative reaction without resistance; SBS stands for "Shouldn't Be Syndrome." Something within us says that the moment shouldn't be the way it is as it interprets the moment...

Topics Covered: Before we can change the world that we see, we're going to have to change the way we see the world; We usually see the world around us through the ideas that we have about it. The mind is mechanically habituated to see everything as being apart from itself; The mind is always fixed on something that it believes is separate from itself, but in reality nothing is fixed...

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...

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...