Topics Covered: The comfort of certainty is the conflict with the moment; False certainty and conflict are one thing; You can't serve two masters, you'll love one and despise the other; Stay awake, watchful, a witness to what "Real I" in you must go through; Everything the mind formulates as the next freedom is the next prison; Give up the idea of "perfect"...

Measure the degree of your irritability with whatever comes along to disturb your "peace" and you will see the extent to which you don't yet understand that Real Life cannot possibly interrupt itself!...

Because we are literally defined by our desires, we are confined to an unseen house of pain that, in turn, has transformed our fertile planet into a prison filled with frustrated inmates...

Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter. Its form first appears as an agent of conversion that collects sunlight....

At all times everything, everywhere, is unfolding as it must. Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view. In down-to-earth terms, to resent the person who cuts you off in traffic does nothing to change either that scary moment now passed, or the sleeping nature of...

Classroom Talk: 8/2/2023 - There is no new resistance; regardless how "fresh" the nature of a negative state -- be it fear, anger, frustration or regret -- the only thing that's actually changed in any seemingly new painful moment is what's being blamed for its appearance.

Question: How do I get past my frustration with other speakers when they ask Guy questions? I see myself judging them terribly for all of the pauses and the "ums" and for not being able to get to the point.

The real reason for being impatient with ourselves, or with others, has nothing to do with the condition we blame it on: impatience -- along with its dark twin, frustration -- is born of our refusal to accept the revelation of a present limitation, and to remain conscious of it until it’s transformed.