Student Talks: 2/2/2024 - Key Lesson: 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.

Student Talks: 12/20/2023 - Key Lesson: 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.

Topic: 3 Real Wishes that Bring Real Results (Classroom Talk 7/26/23)

Student Talks: 7/28/2023 - Key Lesson: 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: 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.

Topic: A Glimpse into the Unseen Source of All Psychological Suffering (Classroom Talk 6/28/23)

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.

Student Talks: 4/21/2023 - Key Lesson: 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.

Student Talks: 4/7/2023 - Key Lesson: There is no reward for love, let alone for being "loving." Either love ITSELF is the reward, or it is not.

Topic: Step Off the Ferris Wheel of Endless Desires and Set Yourself Free (Classroom Talk 3/29/23)

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