Student Talks: 3/10/2023 - Key Lesson: Allowing any part of self to act in such a way as to deny yourself a new awareness of yourself -- whatever its quality -- is the same as refusing your right to realize the limitless depth and breadth of your true Self.
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Topics covered: To paraphrase the well-known koan: If a tree falls in the woods, and there's no one there wishing it didn't, does it create fear or suffering?; The very struggle to escape the captivity of the consciousness that you are born into is why you remain a captive of that consciousness; The task is not to save yourself. The task is to realize a relationship with a part of you that does not need to be...
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Student Talks: 11/18/2022 - Key Lesson: The past does not give birth to the future, any more than we might think to look for the living in a graveyard.
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Topics covered: What we have called our life up until now cannot possibly be the totality of our possibilities; The first person to feel any form of hatred or resentment is the one who holds it, protects it, and projects it; Unconscious choices are made in order to protect what that level of consciousness deems as being valuable; Truth is a pathless land and belongs to another order of being that is already in you...
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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.
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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.
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Topic: Release Yourself from the Circle of Stress, Fear and Sorrow (Classroom Talk 3/2/22)
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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...
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Classroom Talk: 3/2/2022 - Peace is not the opposite of conflict; it is the absence of it.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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