Dying To Yourself

Topic: Catch the Negative Reaction of the Self-Centered Kind (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 10/1/25)

Topic: Break Out of the Prison of Unseen Painful Attachments (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 8/6/25)

Topics covered:  "Part of the miracle of true beauty is that you are not separate from it when you see and experience it; We see our mind's explanations of what is taking place. As such, we do not see the whole;  Each center belongs to yet another center. Whatever the center is of the moment, it cannot be personal. But for us presently, everything is taken personally."

Remastered Classic Talk: 06/29/16 - False certainty is a fool's certainty: it is based in the illusion that the more strongly we feel about any given moment -- in particular, the more negative we are over whatever may have transpired -- proves not only the truth of our unique perception... but also why we're so certain that whatever conclusion we reach goes well beyond the measure of any doubt.

Topic: How to Succeed in Life Without Stress or Strain (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 1/22/25)

Topic: Lights Along the Way to an Awakened Life (Classroom Talk 12/4/24)

Topics covered:  The end of fear is not only possible, it is the purpose of your life to realize the end of it; The worldly kind of success and security that you pursue turn into things that you fear losing; A river is constant, even though it is never the same river. It is the same with real life itself.

Topic: The First Step in Saving Yourself from the Most Painful Illusion on Earth (Classroom Talk 3/13/24)

Student Talks: 8/25/2023 - Key Lesson: Having no real direction of its own in this life... a wandering mind is incapable of recognizing the difference between finding the promise of (another) false purpose to live for, and the pit into which it falls... as it's tempted to reach for the treasure it imagines it has found there.

Topics covered: Between awakening and rebirth there has to be a death. Nothing is born anew that doesn't die to what it was before; Our lives are presently the experience of our own creation; Until we are aware of what dwells in the dark of ourselves, we are subject to whatever that nature does in the absence of that awareness; Imagined security requires an imagined self to keep it in place...

Topic: Drop These Useless Thoughts and Leap into the Indescribable Life (Classroom Talk 12/14/22)

Topics covered: Spiritually speaking, if you are going to become a new human being, something old has to die; Every desire promises you freedom. But does the fulfillment of a desire ever really deliver the freedom it promised?; To die to oneself does not involve doing something with one's own will. "The Kingdom of Heaven cannot be taken by force."