Identity

Student Talks: 11/20/2020 - Key Lesson: When it comes to the Great Way that leads to self-liberation -- of entering the Kingdoms above and beyond this temporal realm -- there is no such thing as "getting there." There is only getting the whole of that image, along with its false sense of self, out of the way.

Topics Covered: We're convinced that something is in the way of our happiness. The real question is: How do we get ourselves out of the way?; The sense of self that desperately seeks for happiness only exists as long as it pursues what it wants. The painful sense of self, and the destination it seeks, don't exist without each other; Spiritually speaking, there is no "getting there" because...

Topics Covered: At a certain point along the path, a person begins to see that they have been caught in a circle of reacting to conditions; All true spiritual teachings point out that we are not a single person; we are made up of a legion of temporary identities. A good portrayal of this condition is the classic Robert Louis Stevenson book, "Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde"; It is impossible to find...

Topic: The New Self-Knowledge You Need to Rise Above Painful Patterns (12/29/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: The New Self-Knowledge You Need to Rise Above Painful Patterns (12/29/19 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 12/29/2019 - Every signpost that seems to point the way to the Holiness we seek must be seen for being the illusion that it is...For there exists no direction in passing time, let alone a doorway seen as outside of us that opens into the Living Now.