Topics covered: Spiritual ideas exists to point to the possibility of a permanent connection, a bridge, that can be established between Heaven and Earth; The goodness of any creature cannot be separated from what it serves; Light becomes matter as it makes its way down through the ray of creation. Dense matter returning to light is what rebirth is...

Topics covered: We don't know what it means to be effortlessly here (in the present moment); The mind is disconnected from the body whenever we do something that we later wish we hadn't done; Nothing good can happen if the mind is disconnected from the body. The mind is unconscious to what it does to the body in its pursuits; Something always goes ahead of us trying to figure out...

Student Talks: 10/23/2020 - Key Lesson: Part 1: We cannot "make" things whole any more than the moon makes itself full by its own light. Rather our work is to serve as a witness to life's ceaseless, concurrent appearance of fullness and emptiness and, by so doing, to unite (within us) the awareness of Timeless consciousness...

Topics Covered: What our mind calls an "empty" moment is really a moment in which we are full of resistance, full of ourselves, full of negative conclusions about what the moment means; The world wants nothing to do with humility; it worships appearance and power; Moments that feel empty are a blessing because they reveal the imagined life we have been living...

This Saturday discussion focuses on finding an internal light within that continuously illuminates, even when it is dark and using attention to explore what is revealed.