Classroom Talk: 6/12/2024 - The mind asleep to itself doesn't realize that it created the problem that it can't stop trying to resolve; and that the more it struggles to try and think through a solution to its self-induced conflict, the greater grows its struggle to escape its unseen, self-induced suffering.

We go through life looking for approval from others. This unending search for approval runs deep inside of us as we unknowingly nurture a relationship with the idea that if we could just be accepted, then little by little we would come to know who we are. We actually buy into the notion that if we could get enough people to approve of us, then this ache in our soul that is always trying to fig...

Almost every kind of unhappy feeling is the result of mistaking the partial for the whole. What this means is that when we don't see the whole picture, we are likely to act in a way that is self-defeating. One example of this would be that terrible sinking feeling that comes with learning too late, after you've become upset, that things weren't the way you were so sure they had been. That, in...

How many of you are short fused? We'll say it in other words. How many of you have virtually no tolerance for anything outside of what you want? On a scale of 1 to 100 degrees, what is your acceptable range relative to meeting moments? Is it something like 2 to 98? Or is more like 78 to 79? That's about it, isn't it? This tiny little bandwidth, and if anything even threatens to...

Classroom Talk: 3/28/2021 - If it feels like the same unwanted moments keep coming around... think again: reality never repeats itself; creation is always new. To know why life seems to repeat itself -- and painfully so -- we need look no farther than to see how instantly identified we become with our (own) recurring negative reactions.

The one who dares to go beyond what he thinks he can do will always meet a point where he has a choice to either return from where he has just come, or to remain where he is... in a world without power. But, if one stays true to his wish to be (made) new -- if he will only...

As difficult as it may be to see, always strive to remember the following truth: The way you feel about any given moment is because of what you think you know about that moment. In other words, while it may seem that you're frustrated because you want to understand your experience, the truth is, it's your present level of being that's creating your frustration as well as the..."

When a person looks at themselves and sees something inadequate, the real inadequacy is not the thing (in them) that's being judged, but that they're asleep to a nature that's judging them. Any...

Topics covered: You don't understand that your mind and body communicate in a mechanical way; You want something from everyone, and it doesn't matter if it's confirming or denying; You'll be free of wanting things from others when you see you have nothing; There's no such thing as a revelation that you can expect; You do your work to be prepared for what you can't be prepared for; We're after...

Let's say you saw somebody walking up to your front door and they had this big brick of gold. How many wish that was true? Here's a big brick of gold: "Ah! A reward! Now I can go buy that thing. I can do what I always wanted to do!" But as the person got closer, you could see that the brick of gold had a chip on the side and that it was actually lead underneath. How many of you would still say...

In this 'Masters Channel Series' program Guy discusses how nothing darkens our days more than negative states, and how we can work to rise above these stormy thoughts and feelings.

A famous artist had a hit record long ago containing the lyrics, "I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter, and make believe it came from you." The next moment you find yourself with a stronger connection to what it really means to be a human being, sit down and write yourself a letter about what you think it means to be a real human being.