Topics covered: The last thing that occurs to you when you are negative is doubt about the reasons for the negativity. Doubt should be the first thing that occurs to you; Honesty and genuine humility are directly connected to each other; The possibilities of a negative reaction are limited to the content of the consciousness that is embroiled in the reaction; A negative reaction comes...

Topic: Uncover the Divine Treasure Hidden in Every Moment (Classroom Talk 1/19/22)

Topics covered: We cannot add anything to what we already are by pursuing what we want; There can be nothing more upside-down than people being unable to see that their life is being given to them; "Hope in things seen" is the same as hope in a time to come. Wanting (and not wanting) is always in time; There is a wisdom that transcends desire; Whatever state you find yourself in...

Topic: How to Exercise the Timeless Wisdom Hidden Within You (11/3/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: There is no end to what there is discover about yourself. There are untold riches buried within; All exploration is self-exploration, and it doesn't matter in what world the exploration is done; Only by experience can you prove to yourself that within you awaits everything you will ever discover is true about you; Within wisdom is more wisdom. Within everything we discover...

Topics Covered: It is not we who are taking a journey... Rather, we are being taken on a journey. The journey is not through the world outside of us. The journey is into and through ourselves. The wisdom we seek is already within us; Wisdom is understanding that the possessions of this world come and go; There is no wisdom in having an enemy to resent. There is no wisdom in fear...

Topics Covered: Wisdom, peace and silence are intimately connected to a new understanding of a unity that had always been here; Thoughts are outside of you, and you will not find wisdom through them; We do not know how to search for wisdom because we do not yet know how to BE; How did the wise man become wise? He stopped answering his own questions...

Topics Covered: Judgment is an unconscious reaction to an unwanted moment; Out of a disturbance can be born a new connection to the Divine that created that disturbance in the first place for the purpose of revelation; Reactions tell us what we should do to change the event that is unwanted by that reactionary nature; The work isn't about trying to become the new person that...

Topic: The Karma-Free Path to Being Perfectly Complete (4/21/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered:Real freedom cannot be shattered. What kind of freedom is it if it can be taken away?; The farther one travels, the less one knows; The outer world is not separate from the inner world in the usual way that we think; We usually think of karma in the sense of a painful consequence for having done something wrong. The word "karma" is more closely connected...

Topic: The Wisdom You Need to Surrender Useless Suffering (2/17/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: Everything is in the only place it can be in the moment. If we are struggling, then it is us who is in the wrong place; It is not really the same familiar day that we live over and over again. What we are really living over and over again is the familiar content of our own consciousness, which cannot be separated from the experience we have of life...