Classroom Talk: 7/14/2024 - There are no signs, no words that mark the entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven; it is a lowly gate, unadorned save for the faint light that shines out from within it, welcoming all those who are weary of walking in the dark.

Part 1 Mindfulness is mandatory for anyone wishing to end the misery born of trying – in vain – to fill an empty heart with a string of meaningless experiences. Part 2 We have freedom of choice, but not from the consequences of those choices.

Student Talks: 7/19/2024 - Key Lesson: There are no signs, no words that mark the entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven; it is a lowly gate, unadorned save for the faint light that shines out from within it, welcoming all those who are weary of walking in the dark.

Topic: How to Save Yourself from 10,000 Useless Struggles in Life (Classroom Talk 5/10/23)

Topic: Illuminate and Eliminate the Source of Personal Painful Conflict (9/2/20 Classroom Talk)

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

Classroom Talk: 6/15/2022 - The ever-anxious feeling that life owes us something -- that we're entitled to have our demands met -- creates two problems at once: first, we are unable to see, let alone realize all that Life keeps trying to give us and, at the same time, the more quickly we are to blame life for the pain created by our own impatience.

The same nagging, "What should I do?" questions have been asked on this planet for thousands and thousands of years, and yet no answer has been able to reconcile the pained part of us that keeps asking. To understand that is the beginning of a new relationship with the part of us that is asking the question. What if we began to suspect that the painful questions...

Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Following your heart; Why don't I know what's in my heart?; Asking others what you should do; Lose interest in yourself; Risk the sure footing of the dock; The understanding that dissolves fear; There is no "you" that is going to achieve something holy; What can I do about the sickness that I see in the world?; Wanting to change the behavior of others...

Classroom Talk: 11/6/2020 - It isn't the world around us we must change in order to bring an end to finding ourselves feeling powerless... again. Before any such change is possible, what needs to be transformed is our unconscious relationship with a lower world within us: our unseen complicity with a level of consciousness that only...

Classroom Talk: 6/17/2020 - When we seek this world, we may win some of its powers and possessions that are fashioned in time, but when we seek the Celestial, we find ourselves – and that we have something within us which made the stars.

Topics Covered: Self-acceptance is self-realization. The rejection of a moment is the same as resisting a moment of revelation; There is intended to be a release in each moment... if we are willing to accept the revelation in it; Conditions do not create conflict. The conflict is already there before the condition, and before we even know it. We come into the moment holding onto...