Unwanted Moments

Classroom Talk: 9/23/2020 - Any "certainty" born of ascribing a negative meaning to an unwanted moment, or that goes on to imagine that moment as a prelude to even more painful times to come, is a false conclusion arrived at by a false self... creating a false sense of captivity.

Classroom Talk: 6/7/2020 - Part 1: Our refusal to consciously meet any form of self-limitation only guarantees that it will be there waiting to greet us again -- and again -- until we discover the real reason behind its self-liberating revelation: we are not what we fear seeing about ourselves, nor are we the fear-filled level of self that would have...

Classroom Talk: 12/1/2019 - It’s never Life’s lessons (themselves) that are painful: here’s the real reason why we continue to experience the fear, anger, or anxiety that always seems to attend the appearance of unwanted moments: an unconscious part of us keeps resisting the (spiritual) lessons that are inseparable from the...

Classroom Talk: 9/22/2019 - We cannot be made into anything that we haven't first agreed to be made into; this means there can only be one reason why we find ourselves feeling afraid, angry, or anxious when suddenly thrown into some unwanted moment: we are turning to, and living from... the wrong maker.

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...

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.