This page contains audio recordings of talks given by Bruce Rubin.
December 31, LA | "I am what I am." Just accept that truth in all of its wholeness. Just say "yes" to who and what you are. |
| December 24, LA | Trying to see, trying to hear, trying to be only mucks up the works. Stop trying. |
| December 10, LA | What is the simplest version of your life? When all else fails, it’s the one thing you have. |
| December 3, LA | Finding the spiritual oasis as a place and as a state of mind. |
| November 26, LA | The proliferation of teachers in an awakening world. Find who speaks to you – and listen. |
| November 19, LA | Developing the higher mind to exert control over the lower mind. In the end, one of them will win. |
| November 14, LA | A goal without a plan is a dream. A spiritual life is like replacing a 13" b&w T.V. with a 100" HDTV plasma T.V. Stop dreaming and work. |
| November 12, LA | Sitting in class with Rudi, working from two directions to dismantle the walls of obstruction and resistance. |
| November 9, LA | Dedication of new class space. The effort to bring new life and consciousness into an empty room and an unconscious life. |
| November 5, LA | Our world is undergoing enormous transformation. The Transcendent is increasingly present in human life. It is time to grow up and become spiritual adults. |
| October 29, NY | When meditating, open your charkas with conscious attention and then sit back, relax, and cozy up with your best and oldest friend – you. |
| October 22, NY | The teaching of the lotus. Why spiritual work roots in the muck of human experience and flowers in the sunlight above the human mind. |
| October 15, NY | Before you have a spiritual life, you need to have a life. So what does it mean to have a life? How do you penetrate the unconscious haze of being? |
| October 8, NY | Asking for help to surrender. The endless availability of help and our resistance to finding it. |
| October 1, LA | Getting results in your spiritual and meditative practice – and in your life. |
| September 24, LA | The universe cannot give you what you want if you don't know what you want. When intentions are conflicted, life is conflicted. |
| September 17, LA | The exquisite beauty at the core of our being and how we search for it everywhere but there. |
| September 3, NY | Life not working is Life working. When you're down to your last dollar – spend it. |
| August 20, NY | Simplicity and complexity are essential to the human condition. Transcendence embraces them both. |
| August 13, NY | Is there any value to seeking enlightenment? You tell me. |
| July 30, NY | On again-off again spirituality. Skills for developing a need and hunger for a spiritual life. |
| July 23, NY | Self control as a key to surrender. Passing through the eye of the needle. |
| July 9, NY | Life has no meaning. It is meaning itself. Only the ego craves understanding. |
| July 2, LA | A cup of tea and the art of letting go. The practice of going deeper. |
| June 25, NY | The search for the Self. How we lose our Self and find It again. |
| June 18, NY | The thin veneer of civilization and why, in spiritual work, everyone is on their own. |
| June 11, LA | Our practice is a life's work. You cannot transcend the life you haven't lived. |
| June 4, LA | Life is real and it is brutal. How to survive life when all our strategies fail. |
| May 21, NY | Awake and Sing. The power of pursuing happiness and the lessons that finding it, and not finding it, hold for us. |
| May 14, NY | Burning. What to do when your spiritual practice doesn't eliminate suffering. The nature of conscious pain. |
| May 7, NY | Failed lives. The pervasive idea of failure in human experience, how quickly we embrace it, and how it impedes our journey. |
| April 23, LA | Awakening. If there is a goal in our spiritual practice, it is to awaken to what is. We dream our way through our lives, and miss them. |
| April 16, LA | Easter Sunday, death and resurrection in each moment. |
| April 9, LA | How to weather the inner and outer storms of our lives. |
| April 2, LA | Chatter – it defines our inner world and obstructs our awareness of Oneness. |
| March 12, LA | Relationships. Our relationship with one another is our relationship with God. |
| March 5, LA | The hidden self. The ego's capacity to hide. Facing the part of ourselves we cannot face. |
| February 26, LA | I haven't a clue to what I'm doing and why that's okay. The value of not knowing anything. |
| February 21, LA | Rudi's Samadhi (Part 1) |
| February 21, LA | Rudi's Samadhi (Part 2) |
| February 19, LA | Gorceki, SYMPHONY #3 (SYMPHONY OF SORROWFUL SONGS) The exquisite nature of individual being. |
| February 12, LA | Creating reality. Collapsing the infinite into the Moment. Mudra. |
| February 5, LA | The relevance of class. There isn't much new to learn here, at least in terms of your mind. |
| January 29, NY | You never know what to expect in the next moment. |
| January 24, LA | Rudi's Birthday. Rudi as a force of nature. |
| January 22, LA | If there is a harder way, show it to me, because it must be wonderful. |
| January 15, LA | This life is your spiritual life. Not fighting your mood, your discomfort. Not trying to fight what is. Engaging day-to-day existence. |
| January 8, NY | Sitting still. |
| January 1, NY | New Years Day class. Renewal. Vasilisa and the child within. Steering the Titanic. |