Past

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...

Classroom Talk: 10/22/2023 - Any time the mind makes a "package" out of some unwanted moment -- wrapping its reaction (to it) in familiar troubled thoughts, and negative feelings -- it does so at the cost of exchanging a priceless gift it's been given... in favor of giving itself another painful experience (of itself) that it doesn't know it's created for itself!

Classroom Talk: 5/21/2023 - Nothing in the universe can make you relive some painful moment from your past as long as you choose to live in the self-renewing awareness that no old dark thought has the power to define you, let alone drag you down.

Classroom Talk: 7/17/2022 - Until the lesson in the repetition of any painful experience is realized as inseparable from the level of consciousness responsible for its reincarnation, there can be no lesson learned, let alone any measure of freedom from all such unwanted moments.

Classroom Talk: 12/11/2021 - Knocking on the Door of Time: Today I spent an hour knocking on the door of Time. No one answered. All that greeted me was silence. But, I'm pretty sure as I was standing there, waiting... That I saw a light come on inside. So I asked, "Is anyone there who might let me in?" Then it seemed came a voice, from where I cannot say...

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.

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.