If you want something to flower, you have to put it out into the light. It is the light that makes things flower. Spiritual work is very simple on one hand, but on the other hand it is not easy due to the parts of us that want to keep us in the dark. In reality, there is nothing that stands in the way of you bringing the whole of yourself into the light of the moment. The light is always bran...

Nothing is set in real life, but we live from a mind-set that wants to get things settled. Just when we think we have everything taken care of -- when all of our ducks are in a row -- life seems to come along and place another demand upon us. In general, we would prefer that nothing interfere with our carefully constructed plans. What is the nature of a mind that is always scrambling to put e...

We live in a small world of thought. In our pain itself is something that can lead us to true change. We need to withdraw from this pain (sensation) of life.

Topics covered: Part of the authentic journey is the gradual realization that there is something in you that never stops hungering and thirsting after new impressions; When we wake up in the morning and begin the new day looking at life through the conclusions that thought has already made, then we are looking at yesterday's news; We as human beings are created with the desire...

Topics Covered: There is no fight with another person or with life without there being a "you" in it; Whatever we believe we are fighting OVER is not really what we are fighting FOR. When we see what we are really fighting for, there is a chance to walk out of the fight; The problem with so-called compromising is that it does nothing to change either party in the relationship...

Student Talks: 3/27/2020 - Key Lesson: We must abandon all solutions about what to do with our suffering that don’t change anything... but themselves.