In this short talk Guy exposes a basic misunderstanding about the spiritual path. Everything about the spiritual life is supposed to be simple but we want to complicate it. This happens when we refuse to let go of our pain in any moment and instead unconsciously hold on...

Just as the absence of clouds does not mean the end of the sky, neither is an empty mind the end of knowing.

Part I: Some come upon the truth of things only once they've run aground on the reefs of remorse; others long for anchorage in what endures only after the winds of fortune slack off, leaving their sails full of emptiness. But the Wise seek the Truth of themselves aright; they search moment to moment within the tides of their everyday affairs, and never look back to see if their wish to kn...

The moment that you see that the only thing you really fear in this life is what you've mistaken yourself to be, you'll also see the interior path that leads to a fearless life. Take this path and you will find a greatness that is the source of fearlessness itself.

Topics covered: It is wise to seek immortality because time defeats all other ambitions; The greatest prize hidden within our inner life is victory over death. Uncovering the treasure is a matter not of intellectual knowledge only, but of awareness, relationship, participation and understanding; The desert in spiritual stories represents the endless useless struggle to escape from conflict, not seeing that the attempt to escape is the perpetuation of the conflict.

Whenever you come to me I have no questions for you, only openness. Nothing needs be spoken. Everything is in its place; all is accounted for. But when you leave... I am like a harbor without a boat; a nest without a bird; a cup that somehow knows what it means to have capacity, yet that sits without any means to fill itself except for this flood of questions rushing to pour themselves into w...

Part 1: Humility comes only with our capacity to feel our own nothingness and, at the same time, to feel all that we are given to be. Part 2: It's impossible to feel real life and to fear it at the same time.

In this Saturday discussion Guy explores what binds us in any given moment. Part of being bound is directly related to being self-conscious, and being self-conscious is the cause of 99% of what troubles us. The spiritual path is discovering when we've made something...

The mind, emptied of its attachments, fears nothing, while the mind full of wanting and not wanting spends all of its time afraid of... everything.

An aspirant embarks upon the spiritual journey because of a feeling that draws them to it - but that feeling that provided the original impetus does not stay with you. At this point, when it feels like you have met a dead end in your inner work, you come to understand you must learn to rely on something else altogether.

Seeking fulfillment it empties itself. Seeking importance it compromises itself. This is the self that opposes itself.

If... You serve only yourself, You serve nothing. If... You love only yourself, You love nothing. If... You cling only to yourself, You hold nothing. If... You wish to please only yourself, You please nothing. If... You have only things as pleasures, You have nothing. If... Your thoughts wrestle with tomorrow, You struggle with nothing. If... You strive to amass o...