Topic: Start Taking the "Little Steps" that Lead to Spiritual Liberation (7/21/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: Thought may be able to describe spiritual liberation, but it cannot enter into that level of consciousness; Every thought is connected to an identity that corresponds to its content; Three words that must become a single action: attention, intention, and persistence. Attending to a persistent intention. Learn to attend with persistence to a single intention...

Classroom Talk: 7/21/2021 - Part 1: Real life is not about what's coming; nor is real life about what has been: (it is) a timeless kingdom between the realm of "what was" and "will be." (it is) is a silent awareness of an eternal Now: a ceaseless rebirth inseparable from its own revelation... wherein "Real I" is (realized as) the guest of honor at the Great Wedding. Part 2: Those who aren't aware...

Student Talks: 5/7/2021 - Key Lesson:You can't heal the pain of the past by talking to yourself about it... any more than you can collect spilled milk, and coax it back into the bottle.

Topics Covered: We are rendered powerless any time that we get caught up in an interior dialog. Most people do not know how much time they spend talking to themselves; As goes my attention, so comes my experience. Attention connects us to whatever it has landed on; We believe that talking to ourselves is the way in which we bring an end to pain. But that dialog is part of being...

Classroom Talk: 5/2/2021 - You can't heal the pain of the past by talking to yourself about it... any more than you can collect spilled milk, and coax it back into the bottle.

Student Talks: 3/19/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: We live within... and under an unseen Law: whatever we resist -- deny or reject -- about our past is destined to become a part of our future. Part 2: Weakness always excuses weakness... because it fears itself.

Topics Covered: There are almost an infinite number of ways that people excuse their way through life. Everyone walks around with a false friend named MOE, which stands for "Master Of Excuses"; We are not supposed to prove our perfection. Instead we are meant to be perfected through using the moment and its relationships for revelation and self-knowledge; All things in nature...

Classroom Talk: 3/14/2021 - Part 1: We live within... and under an unseen Law: whatever we resist - deny or reject - about our past is destined to become a part of our future. Part 2: Weakness always excuses weakness... because it fears itself.

Student Talks: 10/9/2020 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Any form of (psychological) suffering that looks back into the past for its "cause" -- or to the future, in the hope of some imagined freedom to come -- isn't just useless, it's wasted. Part 2: Here is the real "secret" of starting over: No moment in life can be any newer than we are willing...

Topic: How to Stop and Drop the Painful Judgment of Yourself and Others (9/30/20 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: The reason we don't change is because of the reasons that we have for why we don't change; Staring over doesn't require adding something to yourself, but instead laying down what is presently interfering with the new start; There can be no negative reaction to any given moment without there being resistance to that moment. Negativity is the bitter fruit of...