Forgiveness / Blame

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.

The reason it's pointless to ask, or otherwise demand that someone explain himself to you for your troubled feelings over his words or actions, is because no one in the world can explain away a pain that you are creating for yourself.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of February 12, 2018. What else are the untold number of lies -- "large and small" -- that we tell ourselves, or others, if not a trap we build in the now... only to be caught in it later?...

Trying to escape the painful effects of spiritual ignorance is like hoping to lose your shadow by running away from the sun.

Topics covered: Something in me wants to keep me in fear and humiliation; Why do I feel more negative during the holidays; Feeling like a fake; Resisting unwanted moments; How do I take the high road and forgive someone who hurt me; I want to help my family cope with the death of a loved one...