Topics covered: New, true self-knowledge reorders the world that you see. You see the world through the order of your mind - but right now the order of your mind is the world’s order; When you see the truth of something, that truth creates stillness; Feeling good about the work isn't the same as doing the work. There is a part of you always looking for a way to get around what needs to be done.

Topic: The 7 Elements of Enlightenment (5/12/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: Peace is not something that comes later. Peace is not something that we create. Peace already exists in the middle of a storm; We are intended to be living instruments of peace and kindness; Enlightenment is not a static condition; If you do not see the whole, then you are not a whole human being; Everyday is spent doing what you love, whether it is spent...

Classroom Talk: 5/12/2021 - Just as all the qualities of the ocean can be found in a single drop of its water, so do all the infinite expressions of consciousness -- high and low, light and dark -- dwell within our True Self: each and all… a drop of the Divine.

Topic: Transform Any Bitter Struggle with Life Into a Beautiful Lesson in Self-Liberation (11/18/20 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: Instead of setting us free, anything that we identify with as being the source of freedom turns out to be a prison; We resist moments because of the perceived threat of losing something, of somehow being made less by the moment; The mind that resists the moment will produce an image of what needs to be done to get through the moment unharmed...

Classroom Talk: 11/18/2020 - Identifying with resistance to any moment the mind points to as a painful problem of some kind... is the only real problem there is in that moment. To see the fact of this -- which is the purpose of all true spiritual teachings -- is the end of looking for any kind of power to protect, or otherwise restore some paradise...

Topics Covered: The seed in time reveals what it already is; The seed dies so that the next form of itself can live; Freedom is not a static condition; Freedom is the gradual release from beliefs about what freedom is; The journey is an endless discovery of new levels of freedom; Faith is the ability to see truth in scale; Frustration is the evidence of a misunderstood resistance...

Topics Covered: What does a difficult moment have to do with giving my life away?; Bearing the unpleasant manifestations of others; Do you think you're the only one who suffers?; Most men live lives of quiet desperation; Love is greater than the life it gives; Not my will but Thy will be done; Seeing the good in difficult moments; There is no such thing as discouragement without...

Topic: The First Revelation Required to Make a Real Change in Your Life (2/2/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: The First Revelation Required to Make a Real Change in Your Life (2/2/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 2/2/2020 - Part 1: We can either complain about our life, or work to change it. Each moment unfolds in the company of two invisible "buttons:" One is marked, "going down." The other reads, "Up!" Our destiny depends upon which of these two buttons we select. Choose wisely! Part 2: The only thing gained by how easy...