Victim

Student Talks: 8/22/2025 - The perfection of each and every moment is realized by seeing each and every moment perfectly. 

Topic: Free Yourself from False Starts and Painful Dead Ends (Classroom Talk 6/5/24)

Classroom Talk: 1/5/2022 - Painful thoughts, feelings of regret, the fear of some dark tomorrow: all point to a "distant fire" as the source of our suffering, even as they blow smoke in our eyes to ensure we don't see that they are what's burning us in any troubling moment.

Student Talks: 9/24/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Love is effortless attention. Part 2: In remembering the Divine, in that recollection of the truth of ourselves, we bring to the forefront of our heart and mind an all-encompassing Presence that cannot punish itself, or any other; whereas in forgetfulness, we forgo this relationship, and fall under the authority of a dark nature whose intent is to...

Topic: Wake Up and Walk Out of the Dark Dream of Negative Assumption (9/29/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Wake Up and Walk Out of the Dark Dream of Negative Assumption (9/29/19 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 9/29/2019 - Part 1: Refuse to negatively anticipate a problem, and you won't have anything to resist. Part 2: Any negative assumption that pops up in us about ourselves -- that darkens our aspirations for a higher, happier life -- are like sharp thorns on the stem of a fragrant rose: their only the power to cause us pain is if, or when we...

Classroom Talk: 03/23/2025 - We can be -- and often are -- sound asleep going through the motions of life with our eyes wide open. To be able to see — to be aware of - what our mind is actually looking at, experiencing, and responding to…is the first step in the process of awakening; it not only strengthens our wish to attend to the present moment, but to remember that any time our mind is unattended…it slumbers in fitful dreams, from which it cannot awaken itself. 

Classroom Talk: 9/19/2021 - Part 1: Love is effortless attention. Part 2: In remembering the Divine, in that recollection of the truth of ourselves, we bring to the forefront of our heart and mind an all-encompassing Presence that cannot punish itself, or any other; whereas in forgetfulness, we forgo this relationship, and fall under the authority of a dark nature whose intent is to...