Student Talks: 12/22/2023 - Key Lesson: Every once in a while, we have the great fortune of perceiving a moment of such astonishing beauty, or harmony, that we all but lose ourselves within it. But what is far more amazing than any such vision is this breathtaking fact: were it not for our mysterious capacity to perfectly reflect that moment -- to be one with it in heart, mind, and soul -- there would be no beauty or harmony to behold.

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"...

Student Talks: 10/21/2022 - Key Lesson: We are never judged for whatever may be our present degree of spiritual blindness. Only when we turn a blind eye to a truth Life asks us to see about ourselves do we unknowingly judge ourselves, and where the suffering that follows is the result of having looked away.

Topics covered: Every true teaching is designed to help you see that, spiritually speaking, you cannot truly do what you think you can do, ie: complete yourself; Everything that happens in your life is part of the purpose of your life. What is in your way is part of the Way; Much of our lives now involve an incessant and exhausting search for a sense of security that cannot be assailed by any condition.

Topics covered: To understand something completely means to realize it with your mind, heart and body; Every true teaching points to the following fact in one way or another: Unless a person gives up his life, he will not find what his heart really wants; "The first shall be last, and the last shall be first." The personality that is formed by the world and that forms the world it sees is currently the first...

Student Talks: 9/16/2022 - Key Lesson: Being convinced to worry over some darkness that "might be" just around the corner is an unseen interior shell game; (it's) a "play and lose" operation run by parts of us that know if they can't keep us resisting some impending fear they will have no choice but to disappear!

Student Talks: 11/25/2022 - Key Lesson: Part 1: I am only as free as I am unknown, experiencing unfamiliar moments unfolding in an unknowable world. Part 2: As long as there's a limit to what we're willing to surrender -- to sacrifice of ourselves that we might awaken from the dream we dream -- we've given up little, save for a few precious moments of sleep.

Topics covered: Everything you do to "courageously" get rid of fear is the continuation of the fear; Not knowing what to do about whatever state is boiling in you is the same as actually seeing the state as it is; The thing that you feared your whole life is the place you find freedom. The antidote is in the venom; Emptiness will always be filled naturally if you will stop trying to fill it through your own efforts.

Topics covered: Every condition that you see outside of yourself is a reflection of something that is already in your consciousness; Life is ceaselessly being renewed, always giving birth to a new form; The level of consciousness that we presently live from is a psychological hoarder, not able to let go of and creating a storehouse the images that provide a strong sense of self.

Student Talks: 12/2/2022 - Key Lesson: Reactions are not actions, any more than an echo is the cause of its own sound... which means: we cannot escape moments we resist, any more than it's possible to outrun our own shadow.

Student Talks: 11/4/2022 - Key Lesson: There is a proportionate and direct relationship between the degree of an inconsolable pain -- some form of disquiet that's pretty much our daily companion -- and misunderstanding the real purpose of this life we have been given.

Student Talks: 1/7/2022 - Key Lesson: Much as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so it holds true: our experience of any given moment -- for its light or darkness -- its joy or sorrow -- is cast in the image of the consciousness momentarily awakened to reflect upon itself.