To see that “taking thought” leads to naught... is the beginning of the end of all useless solutions.

Classroom Talk: 10/3/2021 - Part 1: Everything is temporary. Part 2: Resistance to any unwanted moment fixes, at once, an unwelcome sense of self that then feels stuck in the negativity it struggles to escape. Liberation from this sorrow begins as we awaken to realize a shocking truth: there is no psychological suffering that isn't rooted in some form of unconscious identification with...

Classroom Talk: 9/22/2021 - Part 1: The real reason for impatience with ourselves, or with any other... has nothing to do with what, or who is blamed for it: impatience -- along with its dark fraternal twin, frustration -- is born of unseen resistance to the sudden appearance of a limitation, including what is required of us to remain conscious (of it) until it's transformed.

Revelation is seeing something I hadn't seen before; Faith is knowing that the love or gratitude you don't feel is still there; We have a default relationship with Mr. Familiar; Following the path of least resistance; I can't love my brother as myself until I recognize, instead of reject, their pain; You can't have fear without negative imagination; I don't know how to be myself...

Topics covered: The answers to your questions are less important than being aware of yourself as you ask them; Nothing can be understood outside of the perpetuity of the moment; You can't transform yourself, you can only invite transformation; You can't enter into higher understanding until it shows you that you were apart from it; Silence is not the absence of things; Resistance is innate to...

Topics explored in this dialogue: What we become attached to limits us; If we don't learn lessons, they return; Resistance is the ultimate source of all repetitious, painful routine; When you listen to the solutions that negativity offers, it's like asking a shark to guide you out of the water; If you're never wrong, you can't learn; The true meaning of 'Love thine enemies.'...

Classroom Talk: 2/11/2024 - Life is change; it is creation revealing itself. We can either realize our existence within its movement as a designated part of its Divine design, or we can continue to struggle with unwanted moments in the false belief that the pain of our resistance (to them) proves we know how life is supposed to unfold.

Topics covered: Liberation is simple. It is as simple as realizing the truth of yourself in any moment of feeling resistance; Our present idea of being a successful human being is measured by the goals we outline that we think we must achieve in order to complete ourselves; Built into humanity's current mindset is a preconditioned attitude of how the moment should be...

Topics Covered: What our mind calls an "empty" moment is really a moment in which we are full of resistance, full of ourselves, full of negative conclusions about what the moment means; The world wants nothing to do with humility; it worships appearance and power; Moments that feel empty are a blessing because they reveal the imagined life we have been living...

Topics Covered: The reason we don't change is because of the reasons that we have for why we don't change; Staring over doesn't require adding something to yourself, but instead laying down what is presently interfering with the new start; There can be no negative reaction to any given moment without there being resistance to that moment. Negativity is the bitter fruit of...

Topics Covered: Suppose when we become Truthful, less people agree with us and desert us, particularly family. What will I do in this case?; Freedom from the resistance and anger that comes up to "handle" my spouse's non-stop patronizing in her attempt to fix everything about me; "Who" is it who feels hurt?; What happens immediately after we die?...

Topics covered: Five words that transform an unwanted moment for spiritual gain -- "XYZ is not the problem"; Resistance is incapable of understanding anything; Words fail to illustrate what only a heart awakened can understand; There is only one moment with a billion different experiences of it; You are a ceaseless birth; Being is the observation of endless doing; Double attention is the natur...