Classroom Talk: 11/30/2025 - If you find yourself harboring resentment -- filled with angry thoughts or painful regrets -- having surrendered to the suffering induced by your own negative considerations... be warned: in the darkness of that nature is where affliction hides; it abides there, breeding the conflict it has with the natural tides of life, waiting to consume those who consent to enter the hell wherein it dwells.

Classroom Talk: 8/10/2025 - No one wants to be touched by the hand of suffering, so millions spend billions trying to escape what they see as something "raining on their parade." And yet, their fear is as misplaced as the misunderstanding that creates it, and here's why: into every life must come some rain, for without it... what else can a heart become other than a desert that never blooms?

Classroom Talk: 04/27/2025 - 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; and it is the end of fear: rebirth realized in the voluntary sacrifice, and concurrent death of the “knower”.

Classroom Talk: 03/09/2025 - We can't change others – or, for that matter, the purpose of any given moment as it unfolds – but we can work to place one less demand on both. Only in this action can we hope to find the freedom for which we seek, because the only thing that imprisons us – in the end – is our resistance to whatever runs against our deeply seated demands.

Topics covered:  The mind creates enemies through resistance to its own memories; You are not going to think yourself out of the experience of yourself. The thinking nature IS the experience that it wants to escape from; Most of us live within a repeating psychological pattern that includes the plans to escape from it. Eventually the human being becomes the pattern.

Topics covered:  Nobody ever believes that they are part of the problem; Why does the possibility of changing seem to become more elusive the older that we get?; There is a possibility of perfection that has nothing to do with thought, but we spend most of our lives lost in thought about how we can achieve an imagined perfection in a time to come.

Topics covered:  We are not looking for new ideas to understand with the old mind. Rather, we are looking for a new mind that already understands; A moment of beauty is silent because there is no thought involved in it; A mind that is being consumed by itself does not think to itself that it is being eaten alive by its own thoughts.

Topics covered: In order to realize what awaits us, we must understand the nature that interferes with that realization; It is a misunderstanding to get lost in misunderstanding; As paradoxical as it sounds, life is found within the season of emptiness just as it is found within the season of fullness when everything is in bloom. Everything that is born anew comes out of emptiness.

Topics covered: Your work is meant to bring you to the point where instead of taking comfort in your own explanations for your suffering, you realize that that suffering belongs to a world within you that is always planning how to escape itself through thought: The only way a person changes is when they have finally seen through all of the ways in which their mind consults itself and comforts itself in an attempt to control their life.

Topics covered: Your body is a kind of temple with cornerstones that belong to your mind, heart, body, and the awareness of those three, for the purpose of holding right ideas together; Your lives are too scattered, not because the world is scattered, but because your mind is divided; Your work is about discovering how empty the opposites of “want” and “not want” are when they’re not together. Nothing can really change until you begin to...

Topics covered:  "Two words that often go before us in any painful moment are "I want.";  There is a direct relationship between your experience of the moment, and what it is that you are giving your attention to;  We are identified with the very condition that we are trying to escape, which creates the very experience that we don't want."

Student Talks: 3/14/2025 - We can't change others – or, for that matter, the purpose of any given moment as it unfolds – but we can work to place one less demand on both. Only in this action can we hope to find the freedom for which we seek, because the only thing that imprisons us – in the end – is our resistance to whatever runs against our deeply seated demands.