In the end, nothing we can win in this life can enrich us half as much as what we are willing to lose for the sake of living without fear.

Topic: Go Beyond Resistance and Realize Your True Self (5/24/15 Classroom Talk)...

Topic: Go Beyond Resistance and Realize Your True Self (5/24/15 Classroom Talk)...

The end of suffering is not found in the pursuit of freedom from suffering, but in seeing through the very nature of desire that generates the suffering to begin with. The problem is not what we desire, but rather our unseen identification with desire itself, and the endless cycle of conflict it creates...

Topics covered: It's impossible to be captured by a state when you are seeing; Seeing is inclusive of all states, whereas thinking is exclusive and creates identification; You are being made by something that doesn't care for you; Seeing is relationship with creation, thinking is creating yourself; The see-er and the seen are connected by awareness; Thinking provides the sensation of something...

Student Talks: 5/19/2023 - Key Lesson: There is no struggle in seeing; and certainly, whatever is being observed does not resist being seen. So, if and when there's some instant form of painful resistance to the appearance of any given moment, it's always due to the nature of the seer.

Topic: Use the Power of Patience and Persistence to Harness Resistance (8/13/17 Classroom Talk)...

Topic: Use the Power of Patience and Persistence to Harness Resistance (8/13/17 Classroom Talk)...

What is resentment if not a sustained form of resistance to the continually refreshed content of some negative impression?...

It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are "marked" with a certain strange feature: and that is...we want to change. Perhaps you're thinking: "What's so strange about that?" After all, who amongst us isn't familiar with this ever-present longing (of ours)? Granted, taken by itself, this desire doesn't seem so strange; that is, until we realize the obvious: we a...

We live within, and, at the same time, living within us... (is) a lower level of consciousness. This "in-the-dark" nature does not want to know itself, and resists any form of inner light that would reveal its nature for what it is in reality: something ceaselessly set against anything that might, by its light, cause it to see the truth of itself. Fortunately -- by grace -- within us dwells a...

Nothing is more empty of higher possibilities than a mind filled with resistance to the revelation of real life.