Student Talks: 9/20/2019 - Key Lesson: There is only one thing that fears seeing ANY fact about ourselves: an imagined sense of self that is frightened by anything that may reveal it as being false.

Coming to any negative conclusion is like getting caught in a sudden rainstorm... and then jumping into a river to keep your shoes from getting wet.

Topics covered: Your mind never stops looking for something that troubles or bothers it; when it's not looking, then it falls into a daydream and delivers itself into the hands of something that requires you to struggle with it; I Sweat You - ISWTUE - Instant Struggle With The Unwanted Experience; What's the unseen purpose behind every ambition? I want to be free. I'm looking for a way to end all of my struggles in life.

Topics covered: The solution to the disturbance is built right into the disturbance itself. The antidote is in the venom; The questions that appear in the face of a pain have been appearing to humanity throughout all time. These questions lead to plans that promise to get rid of the pain but only serve to intensify it; You think it is "you" asking these questions because they are so familiar...

Topics covered: In the world of imagination there is no heaven, there is only hell disguised as heaven; The only thing that has authority over you is what you look to for a sense of self; A machine can never be free because it can only do what it has been originally programmed to do; A machine can only work within the confines of its own content; Freedom from the machine already exists...

Classroom Talk: 10/17/2021 - Part 1: So great is the need of the false self to feel "important" that it never stops imagining what it must have to feel that way; so that, by default, it lives in an almost constant fear of any moment it sees as a threat its desired sense of self. And, as incredible as it seems, it uses this ensuing state of self-created tension as proof that the crowning...

Topics Covered: Even with all of our rushing and doing and struggling, nothing real changes; There is always a feeling in a divided consciousness that there is a distance that must be spanned before it can be at ease; In reality there is no distance between you and the "I Am" that always is, between you and peace, between you and what is perfect; A part of us creates the idea that...

Classroom Talk: 4/6/2022 - The ability to explain our fears to ourselves -- all the "valid" reasons we have for feeling anxious about "tomorrow" -- is not wisdom. Wisdom is the Light by which we see the following truth: there is no experience of psychological fear that doesn't begin without first having imagined a threat to some equally imagined sense of security.

To suffer needlessly – as in worry over what others think of you, or for trying to please negative states that can never know the peace they push you to seek – is the greatest waste there is. Such sorrow serves nothing save the self that glorifies darkness through its self-inflicted pain.

When we know -- deeply realize -- that what we're really looking for in this life is what we already are -- and not what we may become -- we stand on the threshold of a new order of being that is effortlessly fearless, fulfilled, and free.

Key Lesson: Nothing real lives outside the flow of life except for an imagined self whose sense of "I" consists of insisting that life never deviate from the direction it imagines will lead it to freedom.