Topic: Transform Painful Resistance into Your Personal Spiritual Assistant (10/6/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: There is no such thing as a compulsion that is pleasurable; If every solution to our pain has proved to be useless, then the suffering that compelled us to seek the solution was equally useless. Not only are the solutions to our pain false, but so is the "self" that dreams them up; A problem may go away, but the nature that creates the problem does not go away...

Classroom Talk: 10/6/2021 - The more we dwell on something that we wish wasn't so, the more we soak ourselves in negative energies created by our own resistance. The longer we soak, the more we suffer; the more we suffer, the more we resist what seems to be the unwanted event when, in truth, what we are really drowning in are the dark waves of our own un-investigated consciousness.

Student Talks: 9/17/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: What power has any painful moment over us save for having become unconsciously identified with our own negative reaction to it. Seen properly, this means the event we blame for our suffering is like looking in a mirror... and blaming the reflection for whatever we don't want to see in it! Part 2: Our willingness -- and the inner work it takes...

Topics Covered: Who we really are belongs to a greater story than anything the mind can imagine; The mind only knows thought, and thought is the past; The pain in our lives is because we are cut off. We are isolated with no understanding that our present consciousness only knows one thing to do with unwanted moments, which is to resist them; We live in a world where negative...

Classroom Talk: 9/12/2021 - Part 1: What power has any painful moment over us save for having become unconsciously identified with our own negative reaction to it. Seen properly, this means the event we blame for our suffering is like looking in a mirror... and blaming the reflection for whatever we don't want to see in it! Part 2: Our willingness -- and the inner work it takes...

Topic: How to Start Hearing that "Still Small Voice" Within (9/1/21 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 9/1/2021 - Learn to be still and listen... the less we talk to ourselves about life's unwanted moments, the more Life will speak to us, telling us things that ears can't hear.

Topic: Free Yourself from Useless Suffering with One Unimaginable Truth (8/18/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: We are born into a world in which we are taught to fear suffering; Fear of suffering comes with the idea that there will be a time to come in which we will no longer suffer. Fear always creates the idea of a time to come; The only thing that the unconscious nature knows to do with suffering is to create a "tomorrow" to escape it. Suffering is inseparable from a nature that has...

Classroom Talk: 8/18/2021 - Until we learn how to use the moments we don't want... even the moments we do want are useless other than to strengthen the illusion of -- and our identification with -- a false sense of self that believes it will find freedom in a time to come.

Student Talks: 6/4/2021 - Key Lesson: In the end, all forms of psychological suffering can be traced back to a basic single source: the false belief that our unwanted conditions -- whatever they may be -- are greater than our capacity to change our relationship to them.