Topic: Stop Reliving Your Past and Realize Real Life (Classroom Talk 4/10/24)

Classroom Talk: 6/9/2002 - The temptation to blame another for your pain must be recognized as a secret prelude to self-punishment, and it will be, once we awaken to the truth that the nature that wants to condemn someone has first unconsciously condemned itself.

In this Q&A Guy Finley explains that what we really fear being judged is what we have imagined ourselves to be and what we then think we need to do to protect what we've imagined.

Calling ourselves by a negative name -- strongly criticizing some false quality, or otherwise rejecting any dark characteristic of self suddenly brought into the light: these are the chief ways that the lower nature keeps itself hidden within us... even as it perfects the way it punishes us through this all-but-unseen agreement. After all, the strenuous judgment and denial of any apparent char...

Part 1 Giving your mind over to any thought that wants you to revisit something painful in your past is like taking your dog for a walk and, before you make it back home, finding yourself on the leash. Part 2 Believing that re-living something painful from your past will one day liberate you from the suffering that you find there in those same tormenting thoughts is like hoping that a hammer...

Remastered Classic Talk: 06/01/16 - 

Emergency! Then urgency!
Oh my... such an important me.
In this blindness, it's unkindness
Too late I see... the insensitivity
Of unseen self-captivity.

Classroom Talk: 01/19/2025 - 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, any more than a wave on the sea creates the sea from out of which it rises, and must return.

Topics covered: Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future; Nothing in the universe can stand in the way of you changing; No psychological fear exists without negative imagination; Resistance is the real cause of what is wrecking you; Man is intended to outgrow any negative state; Learn to recognize what is a part of you and what is not; Why are we drawn to nature and beauty...

Topics covered:  Most human beings believe that they already know what love is, as well as what it means to be loved; To discover what love is begins with seeing what it is not; We believe that power is found in the part. It is that very belief that is the pain.

Spiritually speaking, absolutely nothing stands in our way except what we do not yet know about ourselves. This means that we do not have to look anywhere else. The other side of this idea that nothing stands in our way is that there are many parts of us that don't want us to know about them at all. These parts have absolutely no interest in anything revelatory taking place. It is impossible...

Since you would never willingly allow someone else to denigrate your name -- or otherwise call you something ugly -- then why do you accept within you the painful presence of some dark unseen character that likes to do the same?...

Topics covered:  "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest." -- Ecclesiastes, Old Testament; Any sort of development requires a certain amount of voluntary suffering. The path of development requires that you meet limitations; We will go through great pains to make sure that we get what we want.