Letting Go

Classroom Talk: 8/21/2024 - We end the conflict inherent in reliving any painful memory as we awaken to see that no such time, let alone any tormenting thought associated with it, exists outside of an unseen temptation to identify with - and then relive - the unwanted experience of what we've agreed to remember...again!

Classroom Talk: 11/17/2021 - Part 1: It is inevitable, but nevertheless a truth seldom realized... until too late: any troubled thought that circulates through an unattended mind will eventually run into the outstretched arms of the very suffering it's trying to escape! Part 2: Here's a great paradox, and anyone who can solve its mystery stands on the threshold of self-liberation...

Classroom Talk: 12/16/2020 - Until we're able to see how the needs of others are the same as our own -- and awaken enough to witness a self-centered level of consciousness that would convince otherwise -- no one's true need, let alone our own can be fulfilled.

Classroom Talk: 11/4/2018 - Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of November 12, 2018. As the chaff is gradually threshed from the wheat... It's not hard to imagine that the wheat may "feel" as if it is losing itself: as if all that it has been -- or known -- is being taken from it.

Topics covered: Wherever anything is, according to its nature and what that relationship is, it is always exactly where it needs to be to receive exactly what it needs to receive; We want to be free because it’s too painful to be where we are. Our suffering proves to us that we don’t want to suffer; We are always exactly where we need to be in order to fulfill the purpose we have been placed here for; What we are tempted by in all instances, with no exception...

Topics covered: Ebb and flow of the work; Using something that has been stolen from you to discover something that can't be stolen; An order of being that can't be diminished; Uncovering what is hidden; Nothing will remain hidden; Self-judgment; Letting go of the old; Natural reactions vs. identification; We can't stop the reaction; The reaction is never personal, but it belongs to a person...