Cycling of vanity with life-in-vain goes on until you see the cost of a self-filling self. Then you commence on the good work of giving yourself up.

Student Talks: 4/26/2024 - Key Lesson: A tree has many leaves, and -- in one way or another -- the wind touches all of them; some shake, some quiver, some hardly move at all. And, yes: it may be said the tree "knows" their trembling; but neither the wind, nor the leaves it stirs are the tree that feels their passing touch. Thoughts and feelings are like leaves; learning to watch them move is much better than being carried away with every breeze.

Student Talks: 2/2/2024 - Key Lesson: Because we are literally defined by our desires, we are confined to an unseen house of pain that, in turn, has transformed our fertile planet into a prison filled with frustrated inmates... none of whom can figure out why they're unable to escape the consequences of their (own) choices.

Student Talks: 3/3/2023 - Key Lesson: Thought is a stoppage; it is an impediment in the celestial circulation of new impressions created to refresh the consciousness in which they appear.

Student Talks: 1/13/2023 - Key Lesson: To identify with even the brightest star is to lose sight of the boundless heavens within which it shines... without whose vast tracts of darkness would no celestial light be seen.

Student Talks: 10/21/2022 - Key Lesson: We are never judged for whatever may be our present degree of spiritual blindness. Only when we turn a blind eye to a truth Life asks us to see about ourselves do we unknowingly judge ourselves, and where the suffering that follows is the result of having looked away.

Student Talks: 10/8/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Everything is temporary. Part 2: Resistance to any unwanted moment fixes, at once, an unwelcome sense of self that then feels stuck in the negativity it struggles to escape. Liberation from this sorrow begins as we awaken to realize a shocking truth: there is no psychological suffering that isn't rooted in some form of unconscious...

Student Talks: 9/13/2019 - Key Lesson: We learn to "pan" the gold out of unwanted moments by seeing that identifying with any form of troubled, or otherwise fearful thought that has appeared to protect us is, in fact, fool's gold.

Student Talks: 4/26/2019 - Key Lesson: Our impatience with others does not prove that we are better than they; what it does show, however, is the depth and breadth of how unaware and identified we are with some flattering, but false image we have of ourselves. This imagined self must constantly work to keep its imagined...

Student Talks: 2/22/2019 - Key Lesson: Here's why we are the unwitting victim of every voice in our head promising to protect us from whatever may be disturbing us: there would be no disturbance for us to deal with were it not for these same "voices" -- our own troubled thoughts -- pointing to, and then...