Topics covered: Without being able to see the big picture, we are lost. And negativity can only see its particular enemy of the moment; The divided consciousness derives a strong identity through resistance and its attending negativity; We have learned to live with unconscious suffering to a large extent, until the pain reaches a level at which it can no longer be denied; Negative identification is the unconscious...

Student Talks: 5/5/2023 - Key Lesson: The witness to experience is not bound by it, any more than a clear sky can be captured by a passing cloud, or a sound can seize the ear that hears it.

Topics covered:There is no struggle in seeing. The struggle is in trying to get life to conform to what something in you wants to see, and avoid what it doesn't want to see; The problem is not what is seen. What creates the problem is the nature that is seeing; Within the sleeping human consciousness, there is something that is already awake, and its presence in that consciousness produces momentary glimpses...

Topic: How to Release Yourself from Any Negative Reaction (Classroom Talk 2/22/23)

Topics covered: The only reason that people hurt others is because they are in pain themselves; Judging another person, even if only in your own mind, is a form of punishing that person; There can be no object without a subject. There can be no sound of a tree falling without someone who hears the sound. There can be no feeling of irritation without someone who feels the irritation.

Classroom Talk: 2/22/2023 - Any form of some painful, or otherwise conflict-filled negative reaction only persists -- as such -- in a world whose creator assists with -- and supports -- the reason for the continuation of that suffering.

Student Talks: 1/20/2023 - Key Lesson: Negative reactions have no awareness of themselves at all, which means not only are they blind, but neither have they any awareness of how they are complicit in the continuation of the pain inherent in the condition they protest.

Topics covered: If you respond to a truth that you have read or heard, it is because there is a corresponding part in you that is a reflection of that truth; Resistance comes before any negative reaction. And the source of unconscious resistance is unconscious comparison; Whatever it is that resists any disturbance is already there in our consciousness before the event. The disturbance simply stirs the nature that resists it.

Student Talks: 12/2/2022 - Key Lesson: Reactions are not actions, any more than an echo is the cause of its own sound... which means: we cannot escape moments we resist, any more than it's possible to outrun our own shadow.

Topics covered: Life contains a mystery that you're drawn to -- it's the mystery of yourself; Agape is a type of love connected to giving yourself up as a higher form of sacrifice for the love of another. It doesn't add something to you, it costs you something - only then do you find yourself being given something in return you couldn't have received any other way...

Topic: Stop Dark Thoughts & Feelings from Stealing Your Life (Classroom Talk 11/16/22)

Topics covered: The problem isn't the disturbance itself. The problem is that nobody understands the reason for it, which is why unnecessary suffering continues; The more that we listen to the temptation to follow the choices that appear to try to change what disturbs us, the more everything remains the same; It is the choices you make that lead to the very conditions that you feel trapped by...