Classroom Talk: 1/28/2024 - 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.

Classroom Talk: 2/26/2023 - Thought is a stoppage; it is an impediment in the celestial circulation of new impressions created to refresh the consciousness in which they appear.

Classroom Talk: 1/8/2023 - 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.

Classroom Talk: 10/16/2022 - 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.

Classroom Talk: 10/3/2021 - 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 identification with...

Classroom Talk: 2/5/2020 -Part 1: Effortless contentment appears as unconscious resistance -- along with its "partner in conflict" -- involuntary insistence, disappears. Part 2: Spiritual freedom is not found by avoiding what disturbs us, but rather by the deliberate interior work of illuminating whatever still dwells in the dark of us that is...

Topics covered: The Friday Meditation exercise to "see all, sense all, feel all, be all"; Nothing can begin in your work until you have the capacity to feel yourself; We are working to see from a different order of ourselves; Each moment in time is a water drop as compared to the ocean of what is eternal; A human being feels all; Change takes place when I no longer try to change...

Topics covered: Ebb and flow of the work; Using something that has been stolen from you to discover something that can't be stolen; An order of being that can't be diminished; Uncovering what is hidden; Nothing will remain hidden; Self-judgment; Letting go of the old; Natural reactions vs. identification; We can't stop the reaction; The reaction is never personal, but it belongs to a person...

Classroom Talk: 4/10/2019 -The only real problem we have with any unwanted moment in life -- regardless how stressed, or conflicted may seem its temporary character... is that we have yet to see our unconscious involvement in its creation, and subsequent appearance.

In this world of passing time, perfection is a ceaseless integration and transcendence of the imperfection inherent in all things created. Temptation is the futile -- and inevitably -- painful attempt to avoid the disturbance of having to experience this imperfection inherent in one's own temporal self; and so (it is) an endless struggle born of identifying with -- and then acting upon -- an i...