Emptiness

Student Talks: 8/29/2025 - Rushing somewhere, through anything, in the hope of finding some imagined peace of mind is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!

Student Talks: 8/15/2025 - No condition that our unconscious nature imagines into existence can change, let alone liberate that level of self that, out of fear, finds itself compelled to imagine it…in order to feel secure!

Topics covered: In order to realize what awaits us, we must understand the nature that interferes with that realization; It is a misunderstanding to get lost in misunderstanding; As paradoxical as it sounds, life is found within the season of emptiness just as it is found within the season of fullness when everything is in bloom. Everything that is born anew comes out of emptiness.

Classroom Talk: 12/13/2024 - Everything is singing; all things created, even those that seem to make no sound are, nevertheless, instruments of a silence that never stops ringing out; each tells a story unique not only to itself, but for the sake of all those who wish to hear the One Voice that speaks for all.

Topic: Crossroads and Other Signposts Along the Way (Classroom Talk 9/25/24)

Topic: The Search for the Truth Starts Here (Classroom Talk 8/28/24)

Student Talks: 8/30/2024 - Key Lesson: We are so occupied trying to fill our lives with what we want that we can't see how all that we need is being given to us freely every moment of the day.

Classroom Talk: 8/28/2024 - When all is said and done, perfect order and true self-knowledge are inseparable; each reflecting the other in much the same way as is the beauty of a dark-red rose revealed through the eyes of its lover.

No unwanted experience of life will ever be "over" for us until we're inwardly awake enough...to get over wishing that it was.

Student Talks: 5/3/2024 - Key Lesson: The cost of "knowing" real beauty -- of realizing all that is timelessly noble and true -- is to be the emptiness into which it pours, and from out of which it will pour again.

Topics covered: We have spent our entire lives running away from pain that we don't understand, hoping to reach a permanent pleasure in a time to come; The so-called heaven that we try to reach through thought always reveals itself to be a present self-created hell; "Thirty spokes share the hub of a wheel; yet it is its center that makes it useful. You can mould clay into a vessel; yet, it is its emptiness that makes it useful...

Student Talks: 2/16/2024 - Key Lesson: Life is change; it is creation revealing itself. We can either realize our existence within its movement as a designated part of its Divine design, or we can continue to struggle with unwanted moments in the false belief that the pain of our resistance (to them) proves we know how life is supposed to unfold.