Student Talks: 4/5/2024 - Key Lesson: The reason why the search for the "Truth" of oneself is called "pathless"... is because it's not taken in steps, let alone in any known direction; rather, the "journey" to authentic self-liberation is found in our endless opportunity to enter into an ever-higher order of self-understanding that -- like the light in which it is revealed - never stops expanding. And... we are invited to travel along.

Topics covered: When you are reliving any moment, you can't be reborn; Transfiguration is when something old isn't just renewed, but is remade in another image so that it is uplifted, glorified, and beautified as a result of its relationship with what has acted upon it; Something hasn't taken your freedom from you -- you have given your freedom away without knowing it. There is no freedom outside of a relationship with God...

Topics covered: We never have a plan, a desire, or an expectation that does not have a momentum that comes along with it; You can learn from everything that you encounter in life, instead of becoming the captive of resistance to what you meet. Instead of being used by fear, you can use fear to free you; You don't know that you walk around with a desire to be left alone until someone or something bothers you...

Student Talks: 4/7/2023 - Key Lesson: There is no reward for love, let alone for being "loving." Either love ITSELF is the reward, or it is not.

Topics covered: Being present is the same as the capacity to do the right thing at the right time, without needing thought; "The truth about the action must be known and the truth of inaction also must be known; even so the truth about prohibited action must be known. For mysterious are the ways of action. He who sees inaction in action and action in inaction, is wise among men." -- Bhagavad Gita

Topic: Drop These Useless Thoughts and Leap into the Indescribable Life (Classroom Talk 12/14/22)

Topics covered: Spiritually speaking, if you are going to become a new human being, something old has to die; Every desire promises you freedom. But does the fulfillment of a desire ever really deliver the freedom it promised?; To die to oneself does not involve doing something with one's own will. "The Kingdom of Heaven cannot be taken by force."

Classroom Talk: 12/14/2022 - The immediate recognition, and subsequent negation of any useless thoughts serves, on the spot, to negate the pain born of being identified with their unconscious "thinker."

Topics covered: Whatever you deny in life is secretly the denial of revelation of yourself. Resisting the moment kills the possibility of revelation; When you deny/resist something in life, that thing is perceived as being your enemy; Fear does not exist apart from the nature that fears it. Fear is a mutually dependent relationship, in that fear cannot exist without a fearful self...

Student Talks: 2/11/2022 - Key Lesson: The more we realize our higher, true role in life is to act as an agent for atoning the appearance of "what is" with "what has been" -- by agreeing to surrender the parts of us that interfere with this reconciliation -- the more we see the beauty of this sacrifice as inseparable from an ineffable peace that comes with no longer being apart from Real Life.

Topics covered: Use your reactions as a springboard to revelation instead of allowing the reaction to use you; Freedom from a negative reaction cannot come by identifying with the second reaction that counsels us on what we need to do about the first reaction. It is a chain of reactions that cannot escape itself; Reactions unconsciously identified with lead to actions taken by an unconscious self.

Student Talks: 9/10/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Let every disappointment in life be as the lighted wick of a lamp to first illuminate, and then to consume the attachment now revealed. Part 2: The beginning and the end of all true religion is one thing: surrender. Which begs the question: Surrender of what... and to what? The one who finds the answer to these two seemingly separate...