Classroom Talk: 7/26/2023 - Why waste time wishing on a star for a "better time" to come... when it's possible for you to know that you are a wish made by a star.

Classroom Talk: 6/28/2023 - Part 1: Hidden deep within every desire there dwells an unseen fire; handle carefully... if you don't want to get burned. Part 2: A divided mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat; not only is it incapable of seeing its own contradictions, but then it struggles with them in a futile attempt to free itself from a conflict that wouldn't exist if it didn't first create it somewhere in the darkness of itself.

Classroom Talk: 3/29/2023 - Into every desire is baked its expiration date. To SEE this as true is the beginning of liberation.

Classroom Talk: 12/21/2022 - How can we ever hope to be at peace with life when -- for the most part -- all we know to live for is the endless struggle to carve out a piece of it for ourselves?

Classroom Talk: 7/6/2022 - Part 1: No stress or tension exists outside of the seed of some desire from out of which it grows. Part 2: Everything is better without tension!

Classroom Talk: 11/11/2020 - Here's the first step in quieting the mind: SEE the fact that if we weren't always talking to ourselves about what we want, or don't want... that most of what troubles us would just disappear on its own!

Classroom Talk: 1/28/2024 - Because we are literally defined by our desires, we are confined to an unseen house of pain that, in turn, has transformed our fertile planet into a prison filled with frustrated inmates... none of whom can figure out why they're unable to escape the consequences of their (own) choices.

Classroom Talk: 12/15/2023 - To everything there is a season, and life's great cycles of expansion and contraction -- of yes and no -- serve no individual save the one who has uncovered the secret of being in the world, but not of it.

Classroom Talk: 7/23/2023 - A true search for the beginning of things must, invariably, lead to the end of things; but the end of things is not the end of the awareness of them.

Classroom Talk: 4/16/2023 - Never run from any moment you don't understand, as whatever your conflict may be in that moment with life... (it) will be waiting for you when, and wherever you come to a stop.

Classroom Talk: 4/2/2023 - There is no reward for love, let alone for being "loving." Either love ITSELF is the reward, or it is not.