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.
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Classroom Talk: 4/10/2024 - It's impossible to see, let alone walk the indefinable path of the presence moment until we realize we've been deceived into looking at virtually every moment of life through the 'I's of the past.
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Topic: Realize the Perfect Security of a Power that Is Not of this World (Classroom Talk 12/13/23)
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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...
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Classroom Talk: 12/13/2023 - We can't be more than we are given to see -- and to be -- IF we agree to allow that awareness to serve its given purpose in each moment. Which is to do what? To reveal -- at once -- all that remains concealed (from us) about our consciousness... so that it might be reconciled, re-integrated, and realize itself as part of a whole greater than the sum of its parts.
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Topic: The Unimaginable Cause of Stress, Fear, and Other Unwanted Moments (Classroom Talk 8/23/23)
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Student Talks: 8/25/2023 - Key Lesson: 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.
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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...
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Classroom Talk: 8/23/2023 - The majority of would-be aspirants believe the "heaven" they imagine is the same as being in the presence of an unimaginable level of Self. And when -- as it must happen -- they are "rudely" awakened from their dreams, they do what comes naturally: they go back to sleep, hoping to find the comfort of another new shelter, in yet another make-believe world.
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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...
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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.
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Topic: Walk Away from Anxious Thoughts and Feelings Before They Work You Over! (Classroom Talk 5/24/23)
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