Feelings

When a wave of negative reactions comes along, something in us that believes itself to be apart from the wave, steps in and tries to mitigate or resolve it... and it never works! As long as we run into the wave, try to fight with it, change its direction, or evaporate the ocean, there's only one possibility. What's the possibility? The continuity of conflict. That's the only possibility there is...

Have you ever noticed that when you're under the cloud of some negative state, what you do to try to "make things better" actually makes the situation worse? Struggling to free yourself from your own negative reactions is a bit like throwing gasoline onto a fire, isn't it? Recognizing that you get trapped in this pattern of taking action that neither relieves nor rescues you from...

Topic: The Truth that Frees You from Any Troubling Thought or Painful Feeling (Classroom Talk 6/8/22)

Topics covered: There is an awareness that human beings have access to that transcends everything that moves through it; Reactions set thought into motion, but the reaction itself is neither good nor bad. All reactions, in their initial onset, are just the registration of an impression. It has no quality to it. It's just the awareness of a disturbance; Just because you are identified with...

Topics Covered: We live in a world that is the size of our understanding; As we are now, unconscious reactions tell us what to understand and believe about the moment, as well as what to do about it; There can be no painful reaction without there being something that is fixed in our consciousness; The mind that analyzes and describes a reaction is not separate from the consciousness...