When you understand that you can't isolate the "I" from the storm that it's in...that it perceives torment but is itself the secret ground of this pain...then you begin to cease willing yourself as that "I".

The unseen human condition: He turns to the same apparatus that creates his pain to help him escape it, and then he wonders why his torment never really ends... An act which proves that what turns to this ache-making apparatus of self is the apparatus itself.

If we would spend but a hundredth of our time reflecting upon where we have been wrong that is spent churning over how others have done wrong to us, we could soon free ourselves of that terrible self-torment known as the need to be "in the right."...

In this short talk Guy explains why beating oneself up interiorly prevents true change. Authentic self-correction has nothing to do with turning on yourself because you don't like what you see about yourself. Real self-correction is revelation. The next time you miss the mark...

Classroom Talk: 5/21/2023 - Nothing in the universe can make you relive some painful moment from your past as long as you choose to live in the self-renewing awareness that no old dark thought has the power to define you, let alone drag you down.

Fear is the imagined need of some tomorrow become the seed of a torment this day.

Topics covered: instrument, expression, torment, fortune, authentic, carelessness...

Classroom Talk: 12/5/2018 - No (psychological) self exists without memory; no (psychological) memory exists without thought; no thought exists by itself. And yet, nothing is more alone and isolated than is the thinker-... regardless of how many thoughts may emerge to support and sustain the appearance of its temporary identity.

If you watch animals in the wild, one thing is obvious: The nature of an animal and its natural experience of life are indivisibly related. For example, deer attract biting flies. In the high heat of summer you won't see one without the other, and I have seen deer driven nearly crazy by these pests. They have no choice but to suffer this seasonal torment. An animal's nature attracts to it the...

Student Talks: 5/26/2023 - Key Lesson: Nothing in the universe can make you relive some painful moment from your past as long as you choose to live in the self-renewing awareness that no old dark thought has the power to define you, let alone drag you down.

The real adversary in our lives, that proverbial thorn in our side that leaves us aching and angry, and then sends us looking for someone to blame, is not what we have always believed. It is not something "out there." It's something "in here": an intimate enemy.

There is no such thing as the innocent remembrance of some past pain or tormenting moment in your life.