Wants

Classroom Talk: 3/9/2022 - We can either resign ourselves to the negative experience of encountering one unwanted moment after another, or we can work to see -- and free -- ourselves from an unconscious nature that loves to arrange these meetings of the always miserable kind.

Topics covered: There is a ceaseless exchange between what is celestial and what is common, and to be where that exchange takes place is everything; Human beings are always running and pushing so that they can get everything they need in order to rest. That day will never come for that divided consciousness; Your humiliation is your salvation. "Humility" may be the least loved word in the world today.

Classroom Talk: 1/26/2022 - The more that we say, "later" -- postponing the inner work of illuminating any painful disturbance within us -- the greater grows the illusion that it's profitable to delay bringing what lives in the dark of us into the Light of Higher Self-Awareness.

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.

Topic: Wake Up and Walk Out of the Painful World of Endless Wanting (3/3/21 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 3/3/2021 - The mind, emptied of its attachments, fears nothing, while the mind full of wanting and not wanting spends all of its time afraid of... everything.

Topic: How to Walk Out of the Haunted House of Endless Wants (11/11/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 11/11/2020 - Here's the first step in quieting the mind: SEE the fact that if we weren't always talking to ourselves about what we want, or don't want... that most of what troubles us would just disappear on its own!

Student Talks: 4/24/2020 - Key Lesson: It's NEVER life's lessons themselves that are painful: the real problem, which is the same as the reason why we groan in these moments -- instead of grow from them -- is that there's something in our present level of consciousness that does NOT want that lesson!

Topic: Turn Life's "Stirring” Moments Into the Light That Sets You Free (7/14/19 Classroom Talk)