Topics covered:  The end of fear is not only possible, it is the purpose of your life to realize the end of it; The worldly kind of success and security that you pursue turn into things that you fear losing; A river is constant, even though it is never the same river. It is the same with real life itself.

Classroom Talk: 3/6/2024 - Part 1: When fear creates morality, as well as the rules governing them, there is no longer morality... and it is fear that governs. Part 2: That we should search only our own conscience for confirmation of what is good and true, this is the best definition of integrity; for that which is good and true is not social in nature, but spiritual in need and in deed.

Topics covered:  Stop making life so hard for yourself and others. Stop believing that it is other people and circumstances that make life hard on you; We go to war with people whenever they deny us something that we think we are owed; Do your solutions bring an end to having enemies? If they did, the world would have stopped making war long ago.

Topics covered:  Most of us try to prove to the world that we understand, and then we are in conflict with anyone who does not acknowledge us; If you are not renewed, you cannot have new understanding. If you ARE renewed, then you can have endless new understanding; There must be a sacrifice of something old in order to find new understanding. No sacrifice, no change is possible.

Topics covered:  Exploration in the world alone is useless, as long as the nature that is searching does not know itself; Revelation is always about relationship, and without that understanding nothing can change for the individual; Faith is what happens when an individual begins to do what he or she was previously afraid of doing. Wisdom comes from a marriage between contemplation and action.

Topics covered:  A "winner" according to the world is someone who gets what he or she wants. These "winners" then have to protect what has been won; Real freedom is to no longer feel the need to protect what you believe you have won; A real winner, in the higher sense, is someone who exits the moment with more understanding than when he or she entered into it.

Topics covered:  What is success? Presently, winning approval is connected to the idea of being a successful human being. That is not success at all. Our ideas of what it means to be successful have destroyed us; True success is to exit each moment with a completely new understanding of yourself; An instant of resistance and limitation is not a punishment, but a pathway to higher understanding

Topics covered: People who are addicted to something lie to themselves, listening to something in themselves that justifies their behavior; "An unexamined life is not worth living." (Socrates) The act of true self-observation is constant self-examination. Little by little, you will want to spend more time in a properly contemplative state; Through self-examination we see what it is interiorly that is presently harming us, instead of unconsciously agreeing...

Topics covered: Life never stops setting the stage for your development; There is a certain blindness we have that keeps us separated from seeing the effect that we have on other people, otherwise we would approach that person or condition completely differently; There cannot be resistance to any given moment without a judge that has come into that moment with us; Love transforms negative reactions into rescuing realizations...

Topics covered: Our suffering is solved the moment we find where it is that, without knowing it, we have been living from a nature that isn't just complicit with its continuity, but that can't live without it; What you give your attention to cannot be separated from the sense of self derived from it. Anything that captures your attention becomes your experience and your sense of self...

Topics covered: Ying and yang are opposing characters but they live in a complementary relationship, as opposed to one pushing out and the other pushing back. They appear together constantly. Nothing I try to push away isn't pushing back as I'm doing it; Karma is the consistent, perfect, harmonious relationship between opposing forces; You can't escape any sense of unrest as long as you don't want it...

Topics covered: The purpose of a parable is to stir a mental, emotional, and physical impression; As in the parable of the talents, each person is given talents for the purpose of making the most of what they are given to be. To be the best you can be means to take what you have been given and transform it and increase it in the way only you can do...