Useless suffering can't be separated from useless resistance. The more you resist something, the more you suffer, believing that somehow or other your resistance to what you don't want to do (or be) is going to separate you or liberate you from the thing you don't want. Resistance is an unconscious form of attention, and the more attention you give to something you don't want, the more of it you get.

We are born into a universe of exchange, always bathing in a host of light, vibration, and sound, produced by an exchange of infinite bodies that are a part of our reality, both visible and invisible. But how aware am I -- in my body, in my life -- that everything exists as it does for me, even my very breath, because there's an exchange taking place?

Topics covered: Instead of telling you what to do, the present moment is first and foremost asking what it is that you love and what is it that you will serve; We are not going to change other people by resisting what they are and insisting that they be something else; Unconscious suffering involves blame, shame and judgment. Conscious suffering reveals unconscious suffering and everything that comes with it.

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.

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!

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.

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

Topics covered: Your mind never stops looking for something that troubles or bothers it; when it's not looking, then it falls into a daydream and delivers itself into the hands of something that requires you to struggle with it; I Sweat You - ISWTUE - Instant Struggle With The Unwanted Experience; What's the unseen purpose behind every ambition? I want to be free. I'm looking for a way to end all of my struggles in life.

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.

Student Talks: 7/8/2022 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Unattended thoughts attract unwanted relationships. Part 2: Identifying with any painful reaction is a form of negative fascination; it is an inverse form of Narcissism where we feel drawn to "stare" at -- to dwell on -- whatever may be that dark thought or feeling we're so sure we don't want to see. Stranger still, the more we resist...