Double Attention

Topics covered: The degree to which you see the truth of yourself is the degree to which you will be a free human being; It is in the revelation of your limitations that you are set free from identification with those limitations; Only human beings, no other creature, can decide for themselves what they give their attention to; It is impossible to see that Life is always changing until we agree to let Life change us as well...

Classroom Talk: 5/1/2024 - Whether a captive of a moment -- or changed, and completed by it -- all depends on what we attend to in that same moment.

Topics Covered: The comfort of certainty is the conflict with the moment; False certainty and conflict are one thing; You can't serve two masters, you'll love one and despise the other; Stay awake, watchful, a witness to what "Real I" in you must go through; Everything the mind formulates as the next freedom is the next prison; Give up the idea of "perfect"...

Topics covered: Spiritual story about a knight who goes to rescue a princess imprisoned in a cave guarded by two chained dragons; Anything that is created is incomplete because it is connected to all other life; The activities we engage in is this unconscious nature trying to complete itself from the content of itself; All seeking starts on a false premise; What we seek is not the problem...

As goes your attention, so comes your experience. As goes your attention, so comes your possibilities; All possibilities already exist within consciousness; Instead of being aware of all of our relationships, we presently think about our relationships; We presently experience the world only from the outside-in, whereby the outside world must line up with ideas of how events should unfold...