Recurrence / Reincarnation

We will have to repeat whatever we fail to complete in (this) life... until that work is done.

Any experience we don't want cannot be separated from our negative reaction to it; in truth, what we are actually disturbed by is being caught in the middle of an unseen conflict born of not wanting to experience our own unconscious reaction.

Student Talks: 7/22/2022 - Key Lesson: 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.

Topics covered: Liberation is simple. It is as simple as realizing the truth of yourself in any moment of feeling resistance; Our present idea of being a successful human being is measured by the goals we outline that we think we must achieve in order to complete ourselves; Built into humanity's current mindset is a preconditioned attitude of how the moment should be...

Topics covered: History repeats itself because it is our consciousness that repeats itself. We must not separate ourselves from the world that we see taking place outside of ourselves; When you see that the world is the way it is because you are the way you are, then you realize you are responsible for the problems you see; The reason we don't learn is because our present consciousness...

Student Talks: 12/17/2021 - Key Lesson: What is, always was; but what always was... need not remain as it is.

Topics Covered: The consciousness that creates separation cannot know immortality; "It is wise to seek immortality because time defeats all other ambitions." -- Vernon Howard; Living from a part of yourself that passes itself off as the whole is the same as living in time; Thought creates the illusion of time along with the self that seeks for completion through possessions found in time...

Topic: Transform Painful Resistance into Your Personal Spiritual Assistant (10/6/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: There is no such thing as a compulsion that is pleasurable; If every solution to our pain has proved to be useless, then the suffering that compelled us to seek the solution was equally useless. Not only are the solutions to our pain false, but so is the "self" that dreams them up; A problem may go away, but the nature that creates the problem does not go away...