Topics covered: Most people go through life fighting with their enemies and spending time with their friends; You are invited to do spiritual battle; You have to learn how to suffer yourself; Patterns are created when resistance meets the moment and deflects it; Don't take the easy way; Inside of you is something that has no love at all; No authentic work begins in your spiritual life until yo...

Topics covered: You don't choose things the way you think you do; The solution to the problem is found in awakening to it; This work is about the gradual discovery of Real I; The experience of the moment must be left alone; Experience is the moment of awareness produced through a condition; Life on earth is all about letting go, but you can't let go of anything that 'you' still want; Transform...

When it comes to any conflict between us, and another -- let alone a person we may love -- anytime there’s some kind of painful drama being enacted... each of us is responsible...

We can keep running through our day -- rushing to get to where the next thought tells us we need to be -- or we can work to let these painful impulses pass into, and through us...

Topic: Leave the Teaching Moment Alone (3/24/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Leave the Teaching Moment Alone (3/24/19 Classroom Talk)

Topics covered: Sensation, emotion, and intellect try to pass themselves off as love, but are not; We've lost the ability to feel life; You find your way on the inner path through experience; There is no burden that someone else is carrying around that isn't ours, too; Only the heart is in relationship with real life; The last thing I want to see is the burden of being me; Learning to ask, 'Wh...

The cost of “knowing” real beauty -- of realizing all that is timelessly noble and true -- is to be the emptiness into which it pours, and from out of which it will pour again.

For us, death -- even as we "learn to live" in its fearsome shadow -- seems to mark the end of all that we have known; a looming "last show" when the theatre will be closed, and the final curtain drawn. But, there is another kind of death...

Awakening is the (graduated) process of negating all forms of identification; (it is) the realization that no matter how real the feel of any familiar sense of self -- for its pleasure, or pain -- nevertheless: no sensation does a “self” make...

A sure sign that one is beginning to awaken, clearing away the veils that mask the entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven, is that – increasingly - one longs for the taste of Real Life... more than one hungers for still more individual life experiences.

All of the true and timeless gifts of Life begin with having been given the gift of seeing.