Topic: Open Your Eyes and See Beyond the Fearful Self (Classroom Talk 9/6/23)

Topics covered: Demands that you make on other people and on the world, that end up leading to your own misery, cannot possibly be your own; Demands that you believe originated with you were acquired by the divided consciousness that habitually looks outside of itself in order to find something that will complete it; "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light...

Topic: See Through Self-Limiting Beliefs and Bring an End to Useless Suffering (Classroom Talk 7/12/23)

Topics covered: How much time and effort has humanity spent trying to figure out how to be free of fear and suffering? How is humanity doing?; The source of psychological pain will never be resolved through belief in a time to come. Instead, genuine resolution is found by seeing through the whole idea that it is necessary to have a belief.

Topic: Wade Into Real Life and Leave Fear Behind You (Classroom Talk 4/5/23)

Topics covered: Anything that I think that I am, I fear that I am not. Fear is built into identification; The purpose of a true spiritual teaching is to develop the soul individually and collectively at the same time. It is not about "you"; We presently live in a spiritual darkness, and the purpose of spiritual work is to bring light into that darkness, but we have to be willing to allow that light to reveal and enact its Will...

Topic: Walk Through the Fear of Limitation and Realize Endless Liberation (Classroom Talk 11/30/22)

Topics covered: Every moment is intended to bear fruit, but we are not intended to decide what that fruit is to be; Nothing gets stronger without natural resistance. Human beings have the choice as to whether or not they will make use of the natural resistance that is designed to make everything stronger; The fulfillment of your possibilities does not depend upon the number of possessions that you own...

Topics covered: Individuals who understand the futility of trying to save their own life -- through thought -- will gain their life; We must learn to use the presence of psychological pain as an invitation to not just question the things we believe are valuable, but to launch an investigation into how we ever came to that conclusion; Whatever we have become identified with over the...

Topics covered: If you are going to be skeptical, then be skeptical about the inevitability of the pain and suffering that comes with struggling against the world; There is useless struggle, and then there is useful struggle. The proper kind of useful struggle is to peer into yourself so as to discover the truth of yourself; We are captives of our ideas about what it means to be free.

Topic: Shatter the Painful Illusion of Self-Limitation (11/24/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: When we are in pain, physically and/or psychologically, there is usually no awareness of anything other than that pain; There can't be any healing for us as individuals as long as we are fooled by ignorance that continues to pass itself off as wisdom; A conscious human being will not hurt him or herself; The entire concept of "getting through a moment" is ultimately fueled by...