Topics covered: "Who am I?" and "What should I do?" are underneath just about every question we ask about life; There is no problem outside of what we have yet to understand about ourselves; If we had a real understanding of levels and scale, we would not be frantically asking "Who am I?" and "What should I do?" all day long; The perfect reflection of yourself is always there to be seen in each and every moment...

Topics covered: When does the world change? When you change the way you see the world; The blessed ones through the ages have tried to convey the idea that you need new eyes to see what is in front of you all the time but that you don’t currently see. And the reason you don’t see is because the impressions that are intended to produce a real change are deflected by all kinds of buffers — beliefs, conditions, longings.

Topics covered: In any moment that you see beauty, you are not searching for anything to complete yourself; The world tells us that the way to complete ourselves is through acquisition, achievement and approval; We spend almost our entire lives trying to find the "partner of the moment" to complete us. Every partner we imagine has to be re-imagined when it doesn't live up to what we thought it would be...

Topics covered: What you suffer from and don't know that you suffer from are all of your solutions to your suffering; What is the one thing you always do in a moment you fear or dread? You look for a way to rescue yourself; Your rescuing actions are inseparable from the moments that you feel are wrecking your life; What is it that gives me the solution to my reactions? The consciousness that has that reaction...

Topics covered: We never have a plan, a desire, or an expectation that does not have a momentum that comes along with it; You can learn from everything that you encounter in life, instead of becoming the captive of resistance to what you meet. Instead of being used by fear, you can use fear to free you; You don't know that you walk around with a desire to be left alone until someone or something bothers you...

Topics covered: Part of your spiritual work is to see that you do not know what your best interests really are; The conditions in life that seem to oppose us have actually appeared in order to help us realize our best interests; A negative reaction looks outside of itself in order figure out what condition or person should be blamed for its pain; The very act of blaming the condition you don't want strengthens the consciousness that created those conditions...

Topics covered: Useless struggle is the effort to maintain the self that believes outside conditions to be the cause of its experience; The mind that cannot see itself is forever set against itself; The sole/soul purpose of all true teachings is to get an individual to see that nothing is missing; Our present level of consciousness sees transformation as a process of becoming, through the acquisition -- in a time to come -- of something that is missing...

Topics covered: Our struggles to find freedom have not done anything other than set up the next series of conditions that we will find ourselves struggling against; Freedom has nothing to do with overcoming the conditions that we blame our pain on. What we must overcome is the level of consciousness that feels itself to be apart from the conditions that it perceives to be outside of itself; Useless struggle is battling with conditions that seem contrary...

Topics covered: We are not as afraid of what we discovery about ourselves when we realize that we are not the only ones who experience this same conditioned consciousness; No one who is dishonest with themselves will ever know of anything that is Divine. Honesty and clarity are requirements for self-realization; You cannot be something other than what you are. The fact that you do not want to be what you are... does not change the fact that you are...

Topics covered: A sleeping human being is anyone who has made peace with the pain that promises to leave them alone in a future time to come when conditions finally change in their favor; When you have pain in your life, you turn to yourself because you do not know what else to turn to, and your solution provides a temporary consolation at best; The part of you that tells you what to do about the conditions or people that are bullying you around...

Topics covered: There is no life without death, and there is no death that is not the fulfillment of life; We judge others for their weakness because it seems to prove our strength; The purpose of all true spiritual teachings is to bring about a change of nature that cannot be brought about by thought; Reincarnation is first and foremost what happens to the level of consciousness that repeats the same painful patterns over and over again because...

Student Talks: 10/18/2024 - Key Lesson: The first place to look any time you feel a sudden stab of pain is to see that not only is the sting of this moment a creation of your own hand, but also to see how -- in that very same moment -- you’re being handed the reasons why you have no choice but to struggle with, and suffer over what amounts to a self-inflicted wound.