Topic: The Power to Walk Away from Any Painful Unwanted Moment (Classroom Talk 10/18/23)

Classroom Talk: 10/18/2023 - Any action we take initiated by resisting some unwanted moment ensures the continuation of an unconscious, deeply conflicted nature so asleep to itself that it can't tell the difference between struggling to escape a prison, and not walking into one in the first place.

Topic: Out with the "Old Addictive Self" and in with a New Dedication to be Free (Classroom Talk 1/4/23)

Classroom Talk: 1/4/2023 - There is no such thing as a compulsive pleasure, let alone a contented "slave" that lives under its lash; and yet billions of human beings serve some form of addiction, willing to turn a blind eye to how much they suffer for the sake of a pleasure they cannot keep, a security that cannot be possessed.

Student Talks: 1/14/2022 - Key Lesson: Poorest of us all... are those who "hear & obey" only their own reactions, because as long as that in-the-dark level of self remains in "power" -- calling the shots -- we will never see how our struggle to escape unwanted moments serves but one useless end: to escape a prison of our own making.

Topics Covered: Every mechanical psychological reaction is ignorance passing itself off as intelligence; There is no intelligence in an unconscious, mechanical reaction; There is no finding liberation through avoidance; Our habitual reaction in an unwanted moment is inseparable from the painful pattern that the reaction blames and resists; Something in us always knows what it wants...

Student Talks: 8/6/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Whoever doesn't know himself, suffers uselessly for the sake of ignorance. Whoever works to know himself, agrees to suffer for the sake of wisdom. Whoever becomes wise, slays the suffering born of ignorance. And whoever transcends the useless suffering of ignorance shares in the birth and burden of creation, in which can be found...

Topic: Rise Above the Unconscious Source of Any Painful Addiction (11/10/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Rise Above the Unconscious Source of Any Painful Addiction (11/10/19 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 11/10/2019 - For too long we've believed that whatever limitation we meet in ourselves -- in some unwanted moment -- would not exist were it not for that same unwanted moment in which we meet it. It's just not true. The real limitation is how instantly identified we become with a fearful reaction "telling" us that we...

Topic: Cancel Your Membership to "Club Me" (4/14/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Cancel Your Membership to "Club Me" (4/14/19 Classroom Talk)