Student Talks: 6/30/2023 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Enlightenment is instantaneous, but keeping the lights on is another story altogether! Part 2: Intention is the front runner of a race yet to be run, a new order of will yet to be tested, but waiting to be realized.

Just as no one should walk into a river without first considering that dangerous currents may be concealed beneath its calm waters, so too must we realize the same holds true of whatever world we may step into – be it walking into our office, a family affair, onto a city street, or into a memory; we enter a world whose hidden currents require we be conscious of them or else suffer the conseque...

Classroom Talk: 11/24/2004 - The higher the Love we would know, the more steep runs its cost. 

Topic: See Through This Unseen Source of Fear and Suffering (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 12/10/25)

The emphasis on learning to "see" -- to work at being watchful -- is not to acquire power to resolve our disturbances; it is the way through which we end of the illusion of either having power, or of needing it.

Part 1 No event, no person, no single thought or feeling is the sole 'cause' of what we see as disturbing us, anymore than a mirror is "responsible" for showing us something in it that we would rather not see! Part 2 Double attention is where and when -- within us -- both the exterior and interior worlds are perceived and realized together in the unity of experience: this is the f...

Classroom Talk: 6/1/2005 - Learn to rely upon yourself in all things, and you will make this glad discovery: it is the strength you find yourself lacking that is the seed of the new strength that you need to succeed.

Classroom Talk: 5/25/2005 - Our present mind looks at the universe through what amounts to a pin prick in a piece of paper and declares, by that minuscule light meeting the eye, that it has seen all there is to see!

Classroom Talk: 9/8/2002 - What makes someone a master is not that he or she possesses some unattainable skill, but that these individuals have first realized the existence of, and then made contact with, a world above them that wants to pour its more perfected understanding into their own.

Remastered Classic Talk: 12/14/16 - Speculation, speculation: thy true name is doubt, and thy brother is fear.