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

Topics covered: Part of our interior work is to discover that there is a part of us that does not want the pure water of truth; There is no imagination in the manifestation of any natural desire. On the other hand, all psychological desires are the product of imagination; There would not be a desire to complete ourselves -- through acquiring something outside of ourselves -- without the belief that there is something missing...

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)

Topics covered: True exploration of your consciousness cannot be for the purpose of escaping from something, nor to confirm what you already know; The defintion of "insanity" is doing the same thing over and over again, and hoping for a different result. The same could be said about "addiction"; "Addiction" connotes the idea of unwilling service to something that is harmful.

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...

Student Talks: 10/16/2020 - Key Lesson: Part 1: We cannot live in fear of discovering the truth about ourselves, about our life... and hope to find the truth at the same time. Part 2: Here's an immutable spiritual law: we will never know all it's possible for us to be until we agree to consciously empty ourselves of all that we have been...

Topics Covered: Real life is actually set up to help you succeed at becoming a better human being; The lesson in an unwanted moment is an unexpected gift, and the gift is the realization that it is time to make a real change in our life; There is a level of consciousness that keeps covering up moments that it doesn't want with what it does want. The only real solution lies in the...

Topics Covered: The only thing that troubles us about another person is what we want from them; If you don't take responsibility for what you think and do, then you won't learn the lesson; Our true nature is a living relationship with spirit; No one who hurts us knows what they are doing to themselves; Identification is bondage; See that the pain is intrinsic in your own consciousness...