Unwanted Moments

Topics covered: We don't want to escape our consciousness, we want to transform it. Negative thoughts and feelings don't need to be overcome, they need to be understood; You cannot resist something and learn about it at the same time. To resist is to separate, to push away; The problem with our attention is not that there are too many distractions. The problem is that we do not possess our own minds. Until we possess our own attention...

Topics covered: The spiritual path is the path of negation, not affirmation. You must lose your life in order to gain it; Immortality is the gradual realization that you are already whole; We were raised to believe that our worth is based upon how others see us; We were raised to believe that there should never be any disturbances; When the observer and the observed are not separate for us, we are a participant in creation, rather than the observer...