Student Talks: 1/20/2023 - Key Lesson: Negative reactions have no awareness of themselves at all, which means not only are they blind, but neither have they any awareness of how they are complicit in the continuation of the pain inherent in the condition they protest.

Student Talks: 9/9/2022 - Key Lesson: The harsh, or otherwise cruel judgment of ourselves feels like it's part of what's necessary to perfect ourselves... when, in truth, it's actually a mechanical movement of an unconscious mind punishing itself for not being as it's imagined it's supposed to be.

Student Talks: 5/22/2020 - Key Lesson: Blame does NOT work. Any solution based in blame only postpones the moment when we'll blame again. There is nothing to blame for how we feel; there's only what we've yet to realize about our present level of consciousness. Seeing this (as true) places responsibility for our experience...

Student Talks: 2/8/2019 - Key Lesson: The degree to which we judge others, and would make them pay for their shortcomings is inseparable from the false belief that our nature is somehow different, superior to those as seen through the eyes of (our) disdain. In truth -- save for the rarest action of a pre-paid grace...

Student Talks: 1/13/2019 - Key Lesson: Here's why learning compassion for another -- putting yourself in his or her "shoes" -- is a good idea: not only is it likely that your paths will cross again but, odds are, next time round... you will be the one walking in their footsteps.

We judge others in the vain attempt to separate ourselves from our own negative reaction to them. This is like believing that turning our back on something we don't want to see in a mirror changes whatever it is that we'd rather not see in it.