Topic: Realize Your True Self and Be Released from Tension and Fear (Classroom Talk 2/14/24)

Topics covered: We are not as afraid of what we discovery about ourselves when we realize that we are not the only ones who experience this same conditioned consciousness; No one who is dishonest with themselves will ever know of anything that is Divine. Honesty and clarity are requirements for self-realization; You cannot be something other than what you are. The fact that you do not want to be what you are... does not change the fact that you are...

Classroom Talk: 2/14/2024 - Part 1: The witness to experience is not bound by it. Part 2: It's impossible to enjoy any moment in life, while fearfully trying to control it at the same time... that is, unless your idea of pleasure is the pain of making impossible demands on "others," not to mention upon yourself.

Student Talks: 12/1/2023 - Key Lesson: Since it is impossible to be unhappy over what you don't have without first having been subjected to some form of unseen painful comparison, this means the true source of one's unhappiness isn't because of some passing condition, but rather is a creation of an unconscious nature -- punishing itself -- each time it negatively reacts to some imagined happiness lost.

Topics covered: Spiritual ideas are intended to introduce you to another world within you that cannot be threatened by any outside condition; Spiritual principles do not exist in order to save you. They exist for you to see how futile it is to try to save yourself as you currently are; There cannot be a negative reaction without unseen resistance. And there is no unseen resistance without identification.

Student Talks: 5/26/2023 - Key Lesson: Nothing in the universe can make you relive some painful moment from your past as long as you choose to live in the self-renewing awareness that no old dark thought has the power to define you, let alone drag you down.

Topics covered: What all of humanity struggles to overcome -- in vain -- is the past; We cannot separate what we call "the past" from the level of consciousness that derives its identity from it; Rushing is an attempt to get away from the experience of the past to a future that is imagined by the same consciousness; Any conflict with any moment does not exist apart from the past.

Topic: How to Awaken and Practice Immaculate Compassion (Classroom Talk 1/25/23)

Topics covered: All true spiritual teachings have a singular purpose, and that is to call human beings into another world that already exists within them; An unconscious nature within us believes that it is superior to everything that it judges; The love that lifts a person above the loveless world of thought has an infinite capacity to recognize perfect similarity...

Classroom Talk: 1/25/2023 - Nothing makes us more common and unkind -- more like everyone else we judge -- than identifying with familiar painful negative reactions that seem to prove we're somehow different, superior to those whose character we hold in contempt.

Topics Covered: Anything you imagine can't be new because it comes from thought, and all thought comes from the content of the past; There can be no new experience of the moment without being in a new relationship to that moment. Experience is relationship; You can't change your relationship with the moment until you see the nature that is producing the experience of the moment.

Topics Covered: Be present to the parts of you trying to pull you down; Don't stop and pick the flowers... smell the flowers, but keep going; The depth of the illusion is nothing to the light that reveals it; There is no such thing as compulsive pleasure; The very action of thought separates us from what it wants to acquire; Without thought everything is clear; Thought is the disturbance and not...