Topic: How to Always Be at Peace with Yourself (Classroom Talk 2/16/22)

Student Talks: 5/7/2021 - Key Lesson:You can't heal the pain of the past by talking to yourself about it... any more than you can collect spilled milk, and coax it back into the bottle.

Topics Covered: We are rendered powerless any time that we get caught up in an interior dialog. Most people do not know how much time they spend talking to themselves; As goes my attention, so comes my experience. Attention connects us to whatever it has landed on; We believe that talking to ourselves is the way in which we bring an end to pain. But that dialog is part of being...

Topic: The First and Last Law of Self-Liberation (12/2/20 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: There cannot be fear without unconscious desire. When there is no fear, then there is no conflict. And when there is no conflict, there is no unconscious desire; Without really knowing that we do it, much of our lives is spent trying to protect what we imagine we have; The fear we feel cannot be separated from the substance that we lend to the objects...

Classroom Talk: 12/2/2020 - The power of whatever we may fear (psychologically) is not in the thing feared, but rather is a feature of a lower level of consciousness that fears seeing the only power it has ever had, or ever will... is imagined.

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...

Topic: The Way of Enlightenment: The Road Less Chosen (1/19/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: The Way of Enlightenment: The Road Less Chosen (1/19/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 1/19/2020 - Part 1: The heart beats... and the effect of its pulsation is the propagation of oxygen-rich blood pumped into and through the body, giving it life. The awakening soul sees... and the effect of this perception invokes a higher awareness whose Light permeates the darkness of all that is unconscious...

Classroom Talk: 6/30/2019 - Part 1: (Your) True Self is a "match made in Heaven," even as (the) false self dwells in a kind of "hell" born of its ceaseless conflict with any moment that fails to match what it imagines it must have... in order to ensure its equally imagined life remains in place. Part 2: When we finally understand that we cannot...