Negative States

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...

Topics covered:  Every day of your life is meant to include a new revelation of something that has always been within you, but that you were not aware of before; If you know so much, then why are you still so afraid?; When we are fighting with a moment, it is another will that has come into our life and acts in our name, but we don't know it.

Let every search for a solution to the suffering you feel begin in the unlit corners of your own consciousness, and soon you will never again wonder "why" you feel the worries, fear, and the bitterness that you do.

The agility of the "thinker" to explain and justify its mistakes -- AFTER it makes them -- is not insight; such "cleverness" is nothing more than its capacity to deceive itself, something it applauds each time it finds yet another way to navigate around the wreckage it tends to leave in its wake.

The painful experience we have to any unwanted moment is inseparable from being momentarily identified with our own negative reaction to it; which means -- all said and done -- that what we're actually suffering from, and uselessly struggling against in these moments -- is ourselves.

Topics covered: Every time we have a rude awakening, the realization is quickly covered up with a new dream; There is something in you that lives to make sure that you forget what you need to remember; The problem with our model by which we will achieve endless happiness, is that the model does not stand the test of time; Until you experience for yourself the fact that nothing dies, you will always be afraid of death.

Imagine trying to see the whole of an ocean through a ship's porthole, and we have a pretty good idea why (our) life can so often feel small and confined; as if we have no choice but to be swept out to sea on a single wave of some fearful thought or feeling.

Classroom Talk: 5/29/2024 - Here's why no negative reaction -- no matter how valid, or inescapable it may seem -- can liberate us from any unwanted moment it blames for its pain: all (lingering) painful reactions are the reincarnation of a dark nature whose "life" depends on their reoccurrence.

Here's why the negative sense of self is blind: it doesn't want to see the smallest thing that challenges whatever it's become identified with; and yet (it is) unable to look at anything else...Which means it is not just a prisoner of what it resists, but (is its) unconscious keeper, as well.

Topics covered: We are dominated by reactions on a daily basis, but the real problem is that we do not know that we are dominated; Unconscious resistance is the life-blood of the false self. Resistance is what keeps the false self alive; Some sort of self-compromise comes out of being dominated by the conclusions of negative reactions; A condition cannot be resisted unless something is certain that it knows what it is...

Topics covered: Anytime you are negative you are not seeing the truth of the moment; Without understanding you are under the authority of something that you believe understands the moment; When you make a mountain out of a molehill, you are suffering from TMS: Tiny Mind Syndrome; No moment is ever about just one thing. But it is about one thing to the 'I' that has been stirred into action...