At our current level of consciousness, we experience ourselves as beings who have a certain emotional state of energy come into us, which defines and shapes our individuality. But the fact of the matter is that there is no such self. Not really. There are just these states of energy and the fleeting sense of self that their undetected possession produces...

Student Talks: 3/15/2024 - Key Lesson: Being is a conscious relationship with what is now; knowledge is a relationship with what was, the conditioned content of the past.

Student Talks: 11/24/2023 - Key Lesson: The single greatest unseen cause of premature aging, stress-related health issues, and ultimately of death is... the deeply mistaken, agonizing idea that somehow our constant struggle to control the outcome of any moment we fear will one day free us from these moments we fear.

Topics covered: As long as you are afraid of life, you have not accomplished anything, despite how much you believe you have accomplished; It is a nightmare to believe that you have to endlessly prove yourself, over and over again; There is an immense difference between trying to prove yourself, and trying to be yourself. We have mistaken "proving yourself" for "being yourself." The world does not know anything about what it means to "be yourself."

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: 7/14/2023 - Key Lesson: When the winds of fortune blow hot or cold, sweet or sour, don't lean toward one or away from the other. Instead, remain upright; only the balanced mind can walk safely over and through the uneven surfaces of this world.

Topics covered: Everything that a human being imagines as being liberation is imagination. The truth cannot be captured in thought; You can only understand what is in you and what you have seen as part of yourself; The mind is in a constant struggle to reorganize the world it sees into what it imagines; You can't struggle to regain balance unless something in you believes it has been thrown off balance.

Topics covered: If you believe that you can lose your freedom, then you never had it to begin with; We are that which is used by the Divine, or we are not. If not, then there will always be an anxious attempt to achieve what freedom is imagined to be; Conflict in nature strengthens the whole of nature so that it comes out it more complete. Conflict for human beings always leads to more conflict and weakness...

Topic: How to Save Yourself from 10,000 Useless Struggles in Life (Classroom Talk 5/10/23)

Classroom Talk: 5/10/2023 - Never fight with life; your struggle is not with what opposes you, but rather with what you have yet to understand about the opposing forces that live within you.