Spirit

Topics covered:  Spiritually speaking, the very action of looking for something often separates you from what you are looking for; We live in a world that exceeds our understanding of it; If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Can there be a sound without an ear to hear it? And can there be hearing without the awareness of it? Hearing does not exist apart from relationship. Everything is a relationship.

Topics Covered: We are overtaken by the "will of the negative" anytime we go into imagination about what we have to do to escape from an unwanted moment; All creatures in nature have a will that is not their own will, but belong to greater nature herself. We as human beings are also imbued with this same animal nature that mechanically sets itself against anything that challenges it...

Classroom Talk: 11/17/2002 - If we could only see that any self that sits in judgment over us is not the perfected nature that it passes itself off as being, but is secretly an imperfection in us that only appears true to us due to the unexamined contrast it creates in us by its accusations, then we would at last strip off the mask of our accuser and be free to realize the truth of ourselves without self-destructive conflict.