Topic: How to Find and Fulfill Your Divine Destiny (1/20/21 Classroom Talk)

Topic: The Way of Enlightenment: The Road Less Chosen (1/19/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: The Way of Enlightenment: The Road Less Chosen (1/19/20 Classroom Talk)

I just finished listening to a talk you gave about spiritual debt. I think that I understood most of the talk, but at the very end you say something like: "You pay this debt by instead of trying to produce conditions for yourself that bring love or peace or kindness, you pay in the moment with that which feels incomplete, with that which fears, with that which would seek advantage over others.

Topic: Stop Being Useful to What is Using You Up! (1/12/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Stop Being Useful to What is Using You Up! (1/12/20 Classroom Talk)

Topics covered: Until we see a bigger picture of the real world that we live in, we won't be able to really know and experience endless new beginnings; If you want to experience what is new, then you are going to have to let go of your ideas about newness in favor of the actual relationship with what is always new; We can see the evidence of renewal all around us...

Topic: This Discovery Stops Painful Self-Judgment on the Spot (Classroom Talk 1/14/23)

The end of suffering is not found in the pursuit of freedom from suffering, but in realizing the divided nature of desire that imagines and identifies with a pain-free time or a place to come, only to imprison itself in a fear it may lose the heaven it has imagined...

Our company (along with many other companies) has made huge layoffs. I have worked with a lot of these people for many years. In this time of unprecedented economic downturn, people without jobs and families losing their homes, is there anything you can say to those of us who have experienced this loss and trauma? I don't know what to say to my friends and coworkers who no longer have a job, a...

The path to self-perfection weaves its secret way through the land of imperfection, where only the conscious awareness of what we are shows us not just who and what we have been, but all that we are made to be...

Next time we wonder how it's possible that someone doesn't like us, let us take a deep breath, and take a look at how we feel about them in that same moment. If we're honest, we'll see and understand two things at once: first, and perhaps most important: there are, in fact, parts of our nature that are not very likable...