Past

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...

Topics Covered: What we do against ourselves is done in the dark of ourselves; but whatever is done in the dark of ourselves is negated by the light; There is a part of ourselves that cannot wait to judge itself; Negative states hide themselves in the guise of a "good" judge; Suffer the judge instead of making someone else suffer because of the judge; The lower consciousness hides...

Classroom Talk: 9/30/2020 - The judgment of anyone or anything is never a conclusion to the conflicted condition in question, far from it: all forms of judging someone, or something amount to an unseen continuation of the relationship being judged.

Topic: The Power to Free Yourself from Any Past Painful Regret (5/24/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: The Power to Free Yourself from Any Past Painful Regret (5/24/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 5/24/2020 - Struggling to escape the mind-breaking pain of any past regret is about as useful as hating ourselves for having fallen into a pit of quicksand... Where the more we fight to escape the hold it has over us, the deeper into it we sink.

Topic: Walk Out of the Prison of Unseen Thought Patterns (12/8/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Walk Out of the Prison of Unseen Thought Patterns (12/8/19 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 12/8/2019 - Part 1: Each time some desire-created 'I' dreams of a better tomorrow to come, it "sees" that future in the THOUGHTS it weaves to dress it up. But thought -- by nature -- is of the PAST, which means that ALL of our newly imagined tomorrows... are secretly a set of secondhand clothes. Part 2: What is any...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of May 21, 2018. Untouched, uncorrupted by what once was, and yet unfolding from it -- as does a tender new flower from its stem -- comes forth the ever-present moment. But (such) newness holds no familiar pleasure for a mind locked in time: where its struggle to be free unfolds in self-spun captivity, an unwitting but willing captive of a prison whose b...