Classroom Talk: 9/25/2022 - Into what do we gaze when looking through a telescope or microscope... other than into the yet discovered depths our own consciousness? For whatever world we explore -- inwardly or outwardly -- what is it we uncover there... other than its reflection within us, along with a corresponding knowledge of it; and, if true, where does this new...

Classroom Talk: 3/25/2022 - Spiritual liberation is not an attainment; real freedom is not an achievement, let alone the by-product of belief. (It is) a grace-granted realization that we are not who we've mistaken ourselves to be: the limited experience of a temporal body that's been given a temporary place in this world of passing time.

Any part of you that wants you to feel bad, angry, or sorry for yourself, including whatever thoughts it may call on to justify why you must ache, is a secret partner of the very pain it resists. This unholy nature exists for one reason only: to ensure that you continue contributing to the suffering it creates, and then sustains with your unconscious consent.

Classroom Talk: 3/25/2020 - During this crisis, it is physically necessary to be vigilant: to keep the prescribed social distance from others. But, along those same lines, there’s an even more important spiritual prescription for our well-being: (It is) to stay awake, and to distance ourselves -- consciously -- from any part of us that would...

Topics covered: How do I deal with severe physical tension; Knowledge by itself kills inquiry; What's behind the question "how long do I have to go through this?"; We live from an autonomic level of consciousness; You can't separate what you experience from the consciousness that produces it; What it means to die to yourself; Negative states are ugly but they...

Topics covered: "Laying down your life for your brother" is an interior action; Physician heal thyself; Realizing I've been the progenitor of my own pain; The dawning of a new light within; Having the willingness to suspend your automatic reactions; Relating the game of chess to your interior life; We live from a nature that sees itself apart from life...

Topics Covered: Feeling like you are always in trouble; Worrying that someone is mad at you; Tells that we are lying to ourselves; The body manifesting a reaction going on inwardly; Awareness of anxiety through what the body is doing; Inner dialog and mental movies; Holding your breath...

Topics Covered: Contradictions in our consciousness; Being in thought is like being in a blizzard; The conflict in not being able to control life; There is no problem, but thought always makes a problem; Everything comes into existence with everything it requires to exit existence at the same time; Complaint is the deflection of responsibility and postponement of revelation...

We may pity the hamster on its wheel in a cage, perhaps even feeling superior to such a clueless creature that keeps running in the same place, going nowhere with no clue of its captive state. But the fact is -- and may God help us to see it as so -- there is little difference between this hamster wheel and the "wheel" of negative thoughts and feelings that, on one hand, tell us how to escape...