Topic: Start Seeing Through "The Devil's" Favorite Deception (5/26/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Start Seeing Through "The Devil's" Favorite Deception (5/26/19 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 5/26/2019 - Hoping to understand the real cause behind some painful, or otherwise unwanted moment by talking to yourself about it -- after it takes place -- is like arriving at the airport hours after your plane's departed, and believing that revisiting the reasons why you missed the flight is almost the same as having caught it.

Student Talks: 3/29/2019 - Key Lesson: If thoughts are cheap, and negative states are a dime a dozen, then what does that tell us about the parts of us that like spending most of their time identifying with them?

Classroom Talk: 11/12/2023 - Anytime we struggle in the dark of ourselves -- trying to change our nature -- our efforts are misdirected; our real work is to learn to see by the light that dwells in that darkness, and to know the truth of ourselves, as (it is) revealed.

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.

Classroom Talk: 5/30/2021 - In the end, all forms of psychological suffering can be traced back to a basic single source: the false belief that our unwanted conditions -- whatever they may be -- are greater than our capacity to change our relationship to them.

Classroom Talk: 4/29/2020 - Part 1: Knowledge without spirit is like finding yourself on a cold night with all the wood in the world and not a flame with which to light it. Part 2: Many are the false beliefs that create real pain. For instance, the belief that we can change what happened yesterday by reliving it today is like trying to chase down an echo...

Classroom Talk: 4/17/2019 -Resistance can never be escaped; all efforts to flee (from) its eternal touch are an act of unseen "vanity." However, (it) can be used, consciously, as the irreplaceable force it is... to help reveal What Is Real: a Kingdom of Light within whose awareness there is no longer a struggle to be free because...

Trying to change, or otherwise control the unexpected appearance of some unwanted moment -- whose anticipated outcome you negatively imagine must be avoided at all costs -- actually helps create the unwanted conditionthat you had feared was coming!...