Topic: How to End the Daily Painful Dramas in Your Life (Classroom Talk 5/3/23)
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Topics covered: There is nothing that you can do in a dream to wake you up from the nightmare of being a human being who is spiritually asleep; Unlike all other creatures, you have been given the gift to be aware of your own consciousness, as opposed to being asleep within it and a captive of its own movements; The mind creates a dark drama and then struggles to find a way to escape from the very scene...
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Classroom Talk: 5/3/2023 - There is no thought, no memory from the past that of itself can cause us pain; the only reason we suffer for their appearance is because we don't want to relive the unwanted experience they remind us of... not to mention how -- for our resistance to that same recollection -- we become its unwitting captive.
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Topic: Walk Away from the Pain of Yesterday (Classroom Talk 12/7/22)
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Topics covered: If you still have an enemy of any kind, then up until now you have spent your life suffering uselessly; No moment in time repeats itself. Creation is eternally new. Then the question to ask ourselves is: how do we find ourselves stuck in what seems to be the same painful situations over and over again?; Yesterday's pain does not exist today without the consciousness that carries it over...
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Classroom Talk: 12/7/2022 - It is impossible to teach the true nature of mindfulness, but it is possible to see the consequences of living from an unattended mind.
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Topic: Transform the Pain of the Past into a Healing Power (Classroom Talk 10/26/22)
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Topics covered: A part of us revisits painful experiences from the past because they provide a strong sense of self; What am I stuck in when I revisit any painful memory from the past? I'm stuck in my own resistance to the very condition I've agreed to revisit; The mind revisits the past believing that it can change what happened; There is a part of us that revisits the past to experience...
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Classroom Talk: 10/26/2022 - Fear of the future is a negative memory: (it is) the ghost of some past painful experience disguised as "what may be."
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Topic: Escape the Prison Called the "Pain of the Past" (Classroom Talk 8/17/22)
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Topics covered: There's only one thing in this life that sits at the center of all of our pain and problems in life, which is that we believe we can save ourselves; Until you understand the illusion that the "you" who suffers over your past is who you really are, nothing will change; We must enter into a new kind of "confrontation" with the part of us that blames everyone and everything else outside of it for the pain...
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Classroom Talk: 8/17/2022 - Unconscious identification with any pain from the past -- especially as it involves, or otherwise lends support to some negative perception of oneself -- is a slow-acting poison that, once ingested, soon darkens the soul and leads to its destruction.
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