Spiritual Exercise

Student Talks: 8/30/2024 - Key Lesson: We are so occupied trying to fill our lives with what we want that we can't see how all that we need is being given to us freely every moment of the day.

Topics covered: Ying and yang are opposing characters but they live in a complementary relationship, as opposed to one pushing out and the other pushing back. They appear together constantly. Nothing I try to push away isn't pushing back as I'm doing it; Karma is the consistent, perfect, harmonious relationship between opposing forces; You can't escape any sense of unrest as long as you don't want it...

Topics covered: The degree to which you see the truth of yourself is the degree to which you will be a free human being; It is in the revelation of your limitations that you are set free from identification with those limitations; Only human beings, no other creature, can decide for themselves what they give their attention to; It is impossible to see that Life is always changing until we agree to let Life change us as well...

Classroom Talk: 5/1/2024 - Whether a captive of a moment -- or changed, and completed by it -- all depends on what we attend to in that same moment.

Student Talks: 7/15/2022 - Key Lesson: The problems and pains that plague a divided mind disappear in the same moment as they appear in a mind unified with itself.

Topics covered: Anytime you are negative you are not seeing the truth of the moment; Without understanding you are under the authority of something that you believe understands the moment; When you make a mountain out of a molehill, you are suffering from TMS: Tiny Mind Syndrome; No moment is ever about just one thing. But it is about one thing to the 'I' that has been stirred into action...

Student Talks: 3/26/2021 - Key Lesson: We have no greater Friend in life than that small part of us that loves what is True. The more we are able to recognize and honor the fact of this matter, the more powerfully does this interior Friend step forward... And prove to us the value of our love for it.

Topics Covered: Thought cannot touch what is spiritual. We are meant to be connected to a much broader and more profound world. All true teachings exist for the purpose of awakening and developing the part of us that can participate in this broader world; Without knowing it we look for our possibilities in the past. What the personality wants and pursues does not serve the soul...

Topic: Practice What Perfects and Not What Punishes You (1/5/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Practice What Perfects and Not What Punishes You (1/5/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 1/5/2020 - Part 1: No seed -- whether a kernel of corn, or a special talent -- can prove itself more valuable than the sweat it takes to sow it -- cultivate & nourish it -- until it offers up its latent Good. In much the same way, the soul is a seed; relationships are its ground; and what grows when all is properly cared for... is Love...

Topic: The Exercise of the Soul (8/11/19 Classroom Talk)