Topics covered: The spiritual journey involves discovering the genuine need to be awake, and seeing where presently we are led around by weakness; There is no kindness in any power that a person attributes to him or herself; What is the real source of weakness? The fact that we have no permanent 'I.' Rather, our current sense of self is produced by identification with whatever...

Classroom Talk: 6/19/2022 - Conscious suffering is the one true path (that leads) to a Life that is consciously selfless.

Student Talks: 3/11/2022 - Key Lesson: Coming to realize any limitation in our consciousness is not the denial of our passage into and through whatever may be the next stage of our inner development; all such revelations along the Way are, in fact, the threshold of an invisible door that -- if we will but dare to stand there -- knocking on it -- never fails to open, revealing a secret entrance...

Topics covered: If you are going to be skeptical, then be skeptical about the inevitability of the pain and suffering that comes with struggling against the world; There is useless struggle, and then there is useful struggle. The proper kind of useful struggle is to peer into yourself so as to discover the truth of yourself; We are captives of our ideas about what it means to be free.

Classroom Talk: 3/6/2022 - Coming to realize any limitation in our consciousness is not the denial of our passage into and through whatever may be the next stage of our inner development; all such revelations along the Way are, in fact, the threshold of an invisible door that -- if we will but dare to stand there -- knocking on it -- never fails to open, revealing a secret entrance into...

There are possibilities in every given moment that exist solely for us to become new -- to change what we've been -- but we must learn to open ourselves. What does it mean to open myself? It means that -- in this moment -- I must understand that when I'm looking at your face, at what you do or don't do, at the weather, even when I'm looking in the mirror at myself...

Topic: What to do when your whole world turns upside down (classroom talk 1/12/22

We have an innate need to rise above ourselves, to open ourselves to higher influences... for one thing, because we understand that without higher influences, we're left to our own flu-like influences from which we don't get well, and that we are sick from following our own prescriptions! Our present condition is imagining what we need to do in order to get above ourselves...

We are born hungry. We not only require food that we take in with our mouths, but we all have an innate need to take in impressions -- to take in the nourishment that stimulates our mind, that moves our heart, and that works to give us a sense of satisfaction in life. When we're young, we have a natural appetite for life, and we are educated by going out and engaging in the world...

Student Talks: 5/14/2021 - Key Lesson: Admitting to ourselves we are powerless to make permanent changes in ourselves is the true beginning of rising above all that troubles us about ourselves; for any and all such unadorned confession is the invisible entrance into another, higher order of being that is transcendence itself.

Topics Covered: It should be evident by now that we cannot give ourselves what is genuinely good. Despite our good intentions, why is the world the way that it is?; Instead of just wanting to be a better person, we must NEED to be a better person; Regret is a kind of unseen prayer that does not really change anything. Real prayer is connected to watching yourself in the moment of action...

Classroom Talk: 5/9/2021 - Admitting to ourselves we are powerless to make permanent changes in ourselves is the true beginning of rising above all that troubles us about ourselves; for any and all such unadorned confession is the invisible entrance into another, higher order of being that is transcendence itself.