Judgment

Topics covered: What would you do with all of this pain if you didn't have someone to blame?; Isn't it amazing that the golden rule applies to everybody else but you?; Any relationship of yours can be as new as you are willing to assume responsibility for what takes place within you as part of that relationship; Who is it that suffers first when we persecute others in our minds? As we judge, so are we judged.

Student Talks: 5/31/2024 - Key Lesson: Forgiveness is not the blind acceptance of what is dark, sinful, or just plain evil; real forgiveness begins with seeing the need  to transcend our own negative reaction to whatever we summarily find as wanting in someone else. After all, whose limitation is it when the best we know how to do (with those who have hurt us) is to hate -- or otherwise resent them...

Topics covered: Life never stops setting the stage for your development; There is a certain blindness we have that keeps us separated from seeing the effect that we have on other people, otherwise we would approach that person or condition completely differently; There cannot be resistance to any given moment without a judge that has come into that moment with us; Love transforms negative reactions into rescuing realizations...

Topic: Stop Reliving Your Past and Realize Real Life (Classroom Talk 4/10/24)

Spiritually speaking, all relationships serve one purpose: self-knowledge. And self-knowledge, in turn, serves a single purpose: discovering the truth of oneself: an inner awakening that serves still a higher purpose: rebirth...the reconciliation, and fulfillment of all relationships.

Topic: Transform Hurtful Arguments Into a Healing Space (Classroom Talk 4/19/23)

Topics covered: There is no such thing as the winning side of an argument, because the reason we argue with others is that we are in distress; The mind complains, "You are giving me an experience of myself that I don't like." And so we argue because that part of us is sure that we must change others in order to change our present experience. But our experience of life is nothing but the experience of ourselves.

Classroom Talk: 4/19/2023 - The less we try to "teach" others about their shortcomings, the more insight we gain into our own.

Topic: Step Over the One Great Stumbling Block to Self-Liberation (Classroom Talk 4/12/23)

Topics covered: When you are afraid and you listen to what that fear tells you to do, then fear is your guide and your god; Until you know what is beyond fear, you will not know what is beyond death, because there is a connection. If you live in fear of death your whole life, then you do not have a life; Human beings are the very source of the thing they say makes them suffer.

Classroom Talk: 4/12/2023 - A great spiritual mystery: self-liberation is either found within what we're given to see, or not at all; the only thing we escape when running from any unwanted realization is the possibility of discovering its Divine purpose... whose revelation is the same as transforming and transcending it.

Topic: How to Awaken and Practice Immaculate Compassion (Classroom Talk 1/25/23)