Forgiveness / Blame

Topic: Start Looking in the Right Place to Find Self-Liberation (Classroom Talk 3/23/22)

Topics covered: Everything that takes place in creation is the expression of a Divine principle; When engaging in physical exercise, there is an agreement to meet and go through resistance. The same thing holds true spiritually/psychologically; On the other side of the resistance is the flow. On the other side of the resistance is the grow; The real world is a world of infinite, ceaseless influences acting on creation.

Classroom Talk: 3/23/2022 - The spiritual body that alone can transform the pressure of unconscious opposing forces -- that learns to use them for the continued realization of its own innate perfection -- is further developed each time we struggle, as needed, to remember that nothing in this world (or the next) has the right to turn our own attention against us.

Student Talks: 11/26/2021 - Key Lesson: The more we dwell on something in our life that we wish wasn't so, the more we soak ourselves in negative energies created by our own resistance. The longer we soak, the more we suffer; the more we suffer, the more we resist what seems to be the unwanted event when, in truth, what we are really drowning in... are the dark dreams of our own sleeping consciousness.

Topics Covered: The physical body has the ability to heal itself when we don't interfere. However, most of us are so distracted that we don't even know when our bodies are falling apart; Healing happens from the inside-out. Pain is asking to be healed; Why doesn't our interior, psychological body heal in the same way that the physical body does? If we could heal ourselves...

Student Talks: 5/22/2020 - Key Lesson: Blame does NOT work. Any solution based in blame only postpones the moment when we'll blame again. There is nothing to blame for how we feel; there's only what we've yet to realize about our present level of consciousness. Seeing this (as true) places responsibility for our experience...

Topics Covered: Sensations and mechanical associations; Torment of inner dialog; Emotional pain and depression; Awareness vs. positive affirmations; Observer is the observed; Role as a bridge; Controlling nature; Resistance and fear; Concept of relaxation; Trying and failing; Worry about what other people think about you; Putting the work into practice; True forgiveness.

Student Talks: 1/13/2019 - Key Lesson: Here's why learning compassion for another -- putting yourself in his or her "shoes" -- is a good idea: not only is it likely that your paths will cross again but, odds are, next time round... you will be the one walking in their footsteps.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of September 24, 2018. It is impossible for one to awaken -- to realize a new mind and a new heart that carries no residue of resentment, let alone the image of some enemy -- until one sees the absolute uselessness of complaining about anything, to anyone... Including to ourselves about our "self."...

Everyone wants to be enlightened - but few are those who will actually bear the interior flame required to illuminate the whole of oneself.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of September 3, 2018. It is a strange characteristic of most human beings that we would rather feel anxious and strained about things over which we have no power, than to do the one thing actually in our power -- for whose conscious practice we would know the very peace we claim to be seeking. And that is: to ground our attention in the fact of the momen...

There is only one reason why we become emotionally negative, let alone surrender ourselves to its dark and debilitating embrace: We have forgotten that we have a choice as to what we love, and whose company we keep, accordingly.