Topics covered: It isn't your anger or fear or depression. They belong to a level of consciousness that is asleep to itself; The more we listen to conditioned reactions, the more we become a captive of that consciousness and suffer accordingly; The mind projects a negative and unavoidable tomorrow from its own conditioned content. It then reacts to its own projected image...

Classroom Talk: 7/18/2021 - Part 1: Nothing serves to create a greater sense of isolation -- a feeling of being cut off from life -- than being at the center of your own thoughts about yourself; where you live out your days as a castaway on the "island of self" upon which you have, unknowingly, agreed to abandon yourself. Part 2: No worldly acclaim, possession, or relationship with...

Classroom Talk: 3/25/2020 - During this crisis, it is physically necessary to be vigilant: to keep the prescribed social distance from others. But, along those same lines, there’s an even more important spiritual prescription for our well-being: (It is) to stay awake, and to distance ourselves -- consciously -- from any part of us that would...