Imagination

Classroom Talk: 9/1/2024 - As surely as planting a lemon seed will grow a tree full of lemons, so is the following true: any solution that begins with resisting (the pain of) some unwanted experience will not only prove itself fruitless, but always give birth to more of the same!

Classroom Talk: 6/21/2024 - Useless resistance feeds useless suffering, even as useless suffering feeds useless resistance; but it is we who -- in our ignorance of this unseen relationship -- are consumed in the endless service of an unconscious nature that cares for nothing other than its own continuity.

Classroom Talk: 8/20/2023 - Having no real direction of its own in this life... a wandering mind is incapable of recognizing the difference between finding the promise of (another) false purpose to live for, and the pit into which it falls... as it's tempted to reach for the treasure it imagines it has found there.

Classroom Talk: 6/18/2023 - The real joy of a quiet mind is the realization of just how soul-stirring real life can be without having to identify with anything moving into and through it.

Classroom Talk: 6/12/2022 - It's the rare dog, indeed, that doesn't dream about -- and then chase after -- a "bone."

Classroom Talk: 4/3/2022 - Practicing the Presence -- working to remember the truth of yourself -- doesn't necessarily change the kind of events that come to you; that's not how it works. But, what your inner work does change is for whom -- upon what 'I' -- will these events fall and, accordingly, the purpose they serve.