Unwanted Moments

Topic: How to Be "Bigger" than Any Problem in Life (8/21/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: How to Be "Bigger" than Any Problem in Life (8/21/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: How to Be "Bigger" than Any Problem in Life (8/21/19 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 8/21/2019 - We cannot rise above the suffering born of "running into" unwanted moments without realizing the unwitting nature responsible for creating this kind of pain: (it is) the dark and hopeless work of a lower level of "self" that has nowhere else to look -- let alone to find itself -- other than in the "waters" of passing...

Topic: Stop Painting Yourself Into a Corner of Your Own Creation (3/3/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Stop Painting Yourself Into a Corner of Your Own Creation (3/3/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Stop Painting Yourself Into a Corner of Your Own Creation (3/3/19 Classroom Talk)

Student Talks: 2/15/2019 - Key Lesson: The passage of life’s events, including the innumerable relationships through which they are revealed, can either grind us down, or serve to remove our rough, sharp edges; so that whether we feel punished or are polished by our relationships in life all depends upon how well...

Classroom Talk: 12/9/2018 - Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of December 17, 2018. We can spend our lives anxious and fearful over each arrival of some unwanted moment -- trying, in vain, to protect ourselves from it -- or, we can use each similar situation to see the following: resisting any negative reaction is the same as turning a blind eye to the lower level of self responsible for it...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of July 2, 2018. True serenity, real inner repose is the same as being quietly, consciously, released from a legion of false beliefs...each of which gives rise to an equally false sense of self.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of April 10, 2018. Part 1: There is but one relationship one can have with the wind-blown events of this world that isn't a part of all the useless, unconscious suffering they create... and that is to be a conscious witness of them.

Trying to escape the painful effects of spiritual ignorance is like hoping to lose your shadow by running away from the sun.