Classroom Talk: 5/16/2021 - Enlightenment is not an "achievement" because part of its realization is there's no one there to claim it... any more than one can "own" sunlight. (It is) a level of being that sees, effortlessly, the following truth: Real Life is secretly a single, beautiful movement incapable of contradicting itself. The more we're...

Classroom Talk: 2/5/2020 -Part 1: Effortless contentment appears as unconscious resistance -- along with its "partner in conflict" -- involuntary insistence, disappears. Part 2: Spiritual freedom is not found by avoiding what disturbs us, but rather by the deliberate interior work of illuminating whatever still dwells in the dark of us that is...

Classroom Talk: 12/5/2018 - No (psychological) self exists without memory; no (psychological) memory exists without thought; no thought exists by itself. And yet, nothing is more alone and isolated than is the thinker-... regardless of how many thoughts may emerge to support and sustain the appearance of its temporary identity.

Topics covered: How do I deal with a pattern of anxiety and stress; What is Being; Why am I unable to act quickly on what I know I need to do; Our present nature is constantly in a dream; We don't see the pit coming because we're already in it. The consciousness itself is the pit; Dreaming in physical sleep versus dreaming in spiritual sleep; We dream because we want to escape what we are; Pai...