Topic: Here's the Missing Piece to Life's Most Puzzling Moments (Classroom Talk 10/11/23)

Topics covered: There is a deeper life to experience if we can be in the presence of that life; If the Kingdom of Heaven is within, then where in the world are you going?; The appearance of resistance is telling us something about ourselves; In reality there is nothing missing in your life because there is no puzzle to solve. To understand that there is no puzzle to solve is enlightenment...

Classroom Talk: 10/11/2023 - Part 1: We can't hope to change what comes out of any given moment until we change the one within whom it appears. Part 2: The task is not to be perfect as imagined, an illusion supported by the pain of unrelenting self-judgment; rather the real task is to do the interior work of seeing ourselves as perfectly as we can regardless of how much we would rather not.

Topic: The One True Solution that Dissolves Unconscious Suffering (Classroom Talk 8/9/23)

Topics covered: If we are ever going to reach the end of unconscious suffering, then we have to uncover the true interior cause of the suffering; Have you ever noticed that you are grateful when you wake up from a bad dream and realize that it was just a dream?; To live in fear of another person, to have an enemy, or to hate anything in life, is to be asleep in a bad dream...

Classroom Talk: 8/9/2023 - Real life never stops starting over; but, before we can step foot in this timeless new kingdom -- and know any portion of its unencumbered freedom -- we must agree to step out of the world of dreams, and leave behind us their endless illusion of a "better time" to come.

Student Talks: 5/21/2021 - Key Lesson: 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...

Topic: The 7 Elements of Enlightenment (5/12/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: Very little is understood about the nature of what is called "enlightenment." It is a level of consciousness in which the person understands, without needing thought, that everything they need is already provided; No person is enlightened. Instead, there is a relationship with that which allows the human being to be enlightened. There cannot be a relationship with...

Topics Covered: Peace is not something that comes later. Peace is not something that we create. Peace already exists in the middle of a storm; We are intended to be living instruments of peace and kindness; Enlightenment is not a static condition; If you do not see the whole, then you are not a whole human being; Everyday is spent doing what you love, whether it is spent...

Classroom Talk: 5/12/2021 - Just as all the qualities of the ocean can be found in a single drop of its water, so do all the infinite expressions of consciousness -- high and low, light and dark -- dwell within our True Self: each and all… a drop of the Divine.

Topic: Take the Short Road Back Home (3/1/20 Classroom Talk)