Quiet Mind / Stillness

Classroom Talk: 3/19/2023 - It certainly seems true, and (it) definitely feels that way, but the familiarity of our habitual thinking is not safety any more than one might believe some ill-fated creature locked in -- and confined to a cage -- finds comfort in its captivity.

Classroom Talk: 1/1/2023 - Nothing ends that something doesn't begin; nothing begins that something doesn't end. To know this as true is to no longer live in the fear of emptiness, let alone to covet the feeling of "fulness"... As neither of these psychological states, including the false sense of self (unconsciously) derived from them, exists without the temporary conditions that create the illusion of their reality.

Classroom Talk: 2/7/2021 - A quiet mind is one that literally lives in a different world than does the mind that talks to itself.

Meditation Talk: 1/31/2020 - All things... be they character or creature -- animate or not -- speak to you from within yourself. The wildflower, the wind, the tumbling leaf and the dead branch that catches it: all have voices, and all may be heard. Learn to listen and you'll hear the Eternal as the sound of yourself.

Meditation Talk: 6/28/2019 We cannot learn the truth of ourselves -- let alone hope to be set free by it -- as long as even one part of us refuses that revelation -- regardless of how impossible it may feel to stand there... in its Light.

Learning to let the whole world pass us by is the only way to discover that the fear of losing some imagined power, possession, or position in life is the same dying to an equally imagined lower level of self that "lives" to cling to it.