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

How can we ever hope to be at peace with life when -- for the most part -- all we know to live for is the endless struggle to carve out a piece of it for ourselves?

Classroom Talk: 7/5/2023 - Part 1: If you want to catch a glimpse of Heaven just stop looking away from whatever truths may be revealed in its silent Light. Part 2: No matter how fast, or far we may run, it is impossible to out-distance, let alone hide from what we don't want to see in ourselves!

Classroom Talk: 12/04/2024 - If we don't wake up, and break the cycle of useless suffering, it will break us.

Topic: Step Into the Invisible Stream of Real Life and Be Set Free (Classroom Talk 9/21/22)

Part 1 The more some thought or feeling prompts you to rush, or pushes you to run toward a place where some anticipated rest awaits, the more you should work to slow down that you might see -- "I" to "I" -- the unconscious level of self that -- with one hand -- points to a "peace just ahead"... even as its other hand is stirring up a sense of anxiety from whose painful grip you can't wait...

Topics Covered: No worldly pursuit can bring an end to the sense of being incomplete; We believe that unwanted moments should be avoided at all costs. It is a false belief because meeting unwanted moments reveals to us something that we brought into the moment that could not have exposed in any other way; A false belief is that we are only as valuable as others think we are...

Classroom Talk: 08/09/2026 - Until we can withstand uncertainty without escaping into explanation, fantasy, or any other familiar form of psychological avoidance, we cannot discover what lies beyond it.

Classroom Talk: 12/14/2024 - If our heart is set on finding something that is not of this world, then we must stop looking for it there.

Meditation Talk: 12/27/2019 - Meditation is the interior art of quietly watching your whole life unfold, moment-to-moment, for "better or for worse"... Without trying to change, explain, or otherwise control whatever you see.