Limitation

Topics Covered: Every moment is intended to be use for self-discovery, not for proving yourself; The wall of self-limitation that we meet is actually a gate; Engaging in distractions is an attempt to get rid of the feeling of being unsettled; Useless suffering is the attempt to pay off an imagined debt; You cannot get stuck between a rock and a hard place without the mind comparing the...

Topic: Go Beyond Painful Limitation to Realize Fearless Being (6/30/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: In order to receive the truth that sets us free, we must begin to see the images that we have about ourselves that keep us in captivity; We get glimpses of something that reminds us that within us is an order of being that we're not the instrument of yet, but sense we could be; The more identified you are with something, the more asleep you are. Identification is captivity...

Classroom Talk: 6/30/2021 - Part 1: What is True always disturbs what is false. What is false never disturbs what is True. What is false is compelled to protect itself. What is True... is its own protection. Part 2: Who can possibly enlighten me as long as there's any fear of what I may see in the dark of myself?

Topics Covered: True teachings awaken the aspirant to what already lives in them; Freedom is an inclusive state, never an exclusive one; The one thing we almost never doubt is the certainty that we feel when we are negative; the certainty is that the cause of the negativity is somewhere outside of ourselves; Whatever we resist has to first be judged and found to be wrong...

Topic: How to Welcome Every Moment of Life (Even When It's One You Don't Want!) (6/7/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: How to Welcome Every Moment of Life (Even When It's One You Don't Want!) (6/7/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 6/7/2020 - Part 1: Our refusal to consciously meet any form of self-limitation only guarantees that it will be there waiting to greet us again -- and again -- until we discover the real reason behind its self-liberating revelation: we are not what we fear seeing about ourselves, nor are we the fear-filled level of self that would have...

Student Talks: 11/29/2019 - Key Lesson: The painful illusion of being held a captive of any painful limitation is the dark dream of a false self that loves to imagine it’s been thrown into a dungeon, so that then... it can plan an effective way to escape it.

Topic: The Exercise of the Soul (8/11/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: The Exercise of the Soul (8/11/19 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 8/11/2019 - Just as the physical eye can't see itself other than through a reflection, you cannot see your "self" other than by gazing upon some mental image of your own creation. So, when "seeing" yourself as a failure in your mind's eye, just remember in that same moment it isn't you who made that picture, and that it's not you who...