Topics covered: We struggle to solve the problems in our lives by consulting the consciousness that is responsible for those problems; The acronym SIDOTNK stands for "Self Induced Drama Of The Negative Kind"; The mind that feels threatened in an unwanted moment interprets the moment based on the content of the past; Have you ever noticed that you are the star of every painful life drama that you participate in?
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Classroom Talk: 8/24/2022 - We all want to be free of painful dramas in our life, yet refuse to see how we play a lead role in their daily appearance. Catching ourselves in a play of our own making -- hearing ourselves reiterate old lines even we are getting bored with -- sets the stage for closing the curtain on a show where we keep starring in our own suffering.
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Topics covered: Every condition that you see outside of yourself is a reflection of something that is already in your consciousness; Life is ceaselessly being renewed, always giving birth to a new form; The level of consciousness that we presently live from is a psychological hoarder, not able to let go of and creating a storehouse the images that provide a strong sense of self.
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Student Talks: 8/12/2022 - Key Lesson: There is only one way to be released from negative reactions, and it begins with honestly considering the truth of the following fact: how ironic is it that we fear losing control of ourselves, or over some moment we fear... when the very attempt to control any relationship is, itself, born of fear.
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Topics covered: You are meant to be the master of your interior house, which is a responsibility that you've been given as a gift by the Divine; The spiritual path is not about arriving somewhere imagined or earning a reward. What we are after is entering into a new, higher relationship with life that already exists; Until you build on a foundation that is true, everything that you build will be shaky.
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Topics Covered: Anything you imagine can't be new because it comes from thought, and all thought comes from the content of the past; There can be no new experience of the moment without being in a new relationship to that moment. Experience is relationship; You can't change your relationship with the moment until you see the nature that is producing the experience of the moment.
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Student Talks: 10/22/2021 - Key Lesson: So great is the need of the false self to feel "important" that it never stops imagining what it must have to feel that way; so that, by default, it lives in an almost constant fear of any moment it sees as a threat its desired sense of self. And, as incredible as it seems, it uses this ensuing state of self-created tension as proof that the crowning...
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Topics Covered: Conscience is the creator of any natural boundaries. Fear creates unnatural boundaries that are made to protect the consciousness that is afraid; The habitual reaction to something that bothers us is either fight or flight; We fight over what we want, and we take flight from what we don't want; If other people don't want what we want, then there is conflict...
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Topics Covered: The first shall be last, and the last shall be first; Judgment of yourself is the continuation of karma; Don't try to be calm, be present to the storm; Realization is the release from the identity from of resistance; Each moment is a perfect mirror; To be spiritual is to see; Genuine prayer comes from seeing, not from wanting; Separating the wheat from the chaff...
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Topic: How to Recognize and Release Yourself from the Circle of Self-Induced Suffering (4/5/20 Classroom Talk)
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Topic: How to Recognize and Release Yourself from the Circle of Self-Induced Suffering (4/5/20 Classroom Talk)
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Classroom Talk: 4/5/2020 - Psychologically speaking, the pain & bane of our life is not just mistaking today's troubling event as proof of tomorrow's pain, but actually ensuring that it will be... by unconsciously resisting what is nothing more than a dark image generated by (our own) negative imagination.
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