Student Talks: 3/18/2022 - Key Lesson: Part 1: By wanting are all things not wanted... thus created; much as joy and sorrow, bound as one... are related. Part 2: If you build it, they will come; if you leave it empty... it will be filled.

Topics covered: Every psychological pain is the outcome of a unseen desire having been thwarted; The source of your pain is the disparity between what you desire and what you can't possess; What seems like a new, reconfigured desire always comes in to fill the hole left by an old desire that was not fulfilled; There is really no such thing as a new desire. The only things that seem new are the objects of desire.

Classroom Talk: 3/13/2022 - Part 1: By wanting are all things not wanted... thus created; much as joy and sorrow, bound as one... are related. Part 2: If you build it, they will come; if you leave it empty... it will be filled.

Topic: Release Yourself from the Circle of Stress, Fear and Sorrow (Classroom Talk 3/2/22)

Topics covered: What is eternal and timeless exists even within the seemingly mundane; Energy that is not squandered can be used to find the truth that from lower consciousness is hidden, but yet that is found in the center of all things; The stage of life where you are now is just as necessary as every other stage that comes before or after; The kind of freedom that is connected to...

Classroom Talk: 3/2/2022 - Peace is not the opposite of conflict; it is the absence of it.

Student Talks: 2/18/2022 - Key Lesson: Before the Light of the Divine can begin teaching us, revealing within us the healing facts needed to be set free, there's one thing we must see as true... beyond the shadow of any doubt: fear can't learn.

Classroom Talk: 2/13/2022 - Before the Light of the Divine can begin teaching us, revealing within us the healing facts needed to be set free, there's one thing we must see as true... beyond the shadow of any doubt: fear can't learn.

Topics Covered: Being willing to see ourselves as we are is the practice of meditation; A relationship with the Divine doesn't require control or strength; None of us want to be without something to do; We must learn to see equally above and below, light and dark; You are free, the why is a lie; When you talk to yourself you are not the one talking and you are not the one who is...

Student Talks: 6/5/2020 - Key Lesson: Whenever we set out seeking any kind of power, be it social, financial, and including spiritual, we are under the power of that which has no power; and where, regardless of what it may seem we've obtained, we have become increasingly powerless.

Topics Covered: Our hope is not in things seen; Being the witness of useless suffering; Use the fear of the future to find the fearless heart; Accept the moment as it is given as an act of higher Will; We don't want to fix ourselves, we want to see ourselves; Dismissal of habitual reactions; Awareness of the play of creation; Replace the idea of "faster" with "more aware"...

Topic: Awaken the Strength You Need to Walk Away from Any Self-Compromising Behavior (5/3/20 Classroom Talk)