Topics covered: When does the world change? When you change the way you see the world; The blessed ones through the ages have tried to convey the idea that you need new eyes to see what is in front of you all the time but that you don’t currently see. And the reason you don’t see is because the impressions that are intended to produce a real change are deflected by all kinds of buffers — beliefs, conditions, longings.

Topics covered: The only way it is possible to want to avoid any moment is that we are asleep to the possibilities in that same moment; Our powers that we imagine we possess abandon us whenever we need them the most; The mind's endless juggling is about trying to find a way to get past disturbances to the place of peace it has imagined in a time to come; The endless struggle is about trying to gain the powers necessary to restore peace and security...

Topics covered: Our lives are currently predicated on dealing what is unreal, the pursuit for answers to suffering that is blamed on outside conditions that seem to be responsible for the suffering but in reality are not; Every image that comes into your mind to lend you a sense of security also comes with a second force built into it that will prove it is unreal; A false sense of self, a false identity...

Topics covered: Between awakening and rebirth there has to be a death. Nothing is born anew that doesn't die to what it was before; Our lives are presently the experience of our own creation; Until we are aware of what dwells in the dark of ourselves, we are subject to whatever that nature does in the absence of that awareness; Imagined security requires an imagined self to keep it in place...

Topics covered: If you want to have the ending you are looking for, you are going to need a new beginning; Today's humanity continues to write a story for itself that it doesn't like, always hoping that the next chapter will finally satisfy; Understanding is simple. The ultimate understanding is that you think you have to hurt yourself, but you don't... you think you have to be afraid, but you don't.

Topics covered: We live in a sea of sensations, which makes the dream we are in seem real; Each worried thought and feeling comes with a temptation to find consolation through what those thoughts and feelings suggest; The seeming motive for anticipating a moment to come is to get through that moment without something bad happening; The only way that you can look beyond the...

Topics covered: When you have heard the truth, you are forever in debt to it. What has been seen cannot be unseen; Heavy spirits, worried and anxious people, or ambitious people who refuse to see themselves cannot find freedom; Why would you give your attention to something that gives you an experience that you don't want?; Most of what you experience is produced by your...

Topics covered: Not wanting to see something that is right in front of you is willful ignorance. You have to be willing to see the truth that you don't want to see; There is no such thing as a painful want that is natural; The constant state of "I want" goes before you to make the straight places crooked; When you meet a moment that you don't want, you immediately know what you DO want in...

Topics covered: Reality, inner and outer, is a lot bigger than our thoughts about it; We have an innate longing to belong to something greater than ourselves; Thought is the limitation, not the way to transcend limitation. Identification with thought stops exploration and discovery; The greater our resistance to any unwanted moment, the bigger that moment seems...

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...

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...

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...