Topic: A Tale Of Two Natures: The Unthinkable Revelation that Leads to Self-Liberation (Classroom Talk 6/21/23)

Topics covered: Freedom is the unconditional acceptance of the experience of yourself as you are in the moment; Transformation is not a process that involves a destination. Transformation is a process of conversion; Our consciousness cannot see by itself. In order to see itself it needs the light that dwells in the darkness; The purpose of inner work is to change your relationship with your own consciousness.

Classroom Talk: 6/21/2023 - Spiritual ignorance is like the deep darkness of a moonless night; and though it has no substance of its own, it not only obscures the path that leads back home, but ensures we will walk right by it... each time and place it makes its momentary appearance.

Student Talks: 10/28/2022 - Key Lesson: Part 1: There is no map to the Kingdom of Heaven that isn't out of date the moment we set out to follow it. Part 2: Consider the one most free who has learned to see, even in adversity, the Good... whose unfailing Light shines on even in the darkest night.

Topics covered: There are three forces that are essential in the action of creation: an active force, a passive force, and a reconciling force; Is there any painful moment in our lives that is not preceded by resistance to something?; There can't be resistance without something in our consciousness that describes the moment and blames its pain on something outside of itself.

Student Talks: 8/19/2022 - Key Lesson: The imagined time of "rest" we seek is, in fact, the same as an invisible burr beneath our saddle, as whatever form of comfort it is that still eludes us doesn't exist without some corresponding sense of discomfort that keeps spurring us on.

Topics covered: My reaction to what I don't want from life validates my pain; The world we see isn't the problem. The problem is the way we see the world around us and ourselves within in it; I'm in an endless struggle with the world because I am in opposition to anything that opposes my will and what my idea of life is, and what I'm supposed to get from it; Try to be someone...

Topic: Free Yourself from the Fearful World of These False Ideas (12/8/21 Classroom Talk)