January 11, 2023
What Does Not Change: The Anchor of Nothing Missing
Lo que no cambia: El ancla de que nada falta
This session begins with a meditation on recognizing what is always present and unchanging beneath all experience. The dialogues explore the anxiety of choosing the right spiritual practice, the trap of false certainty, and how the belief that something is missing drives compulsive seeking. The teacher emphasizes that recognizing nothing is fundamentally lacking provides clarity for navigating life's choices with greater attunement.
meditation
What Does Not Change
An invitation to notice what remains constant beneath every experience and to gently sink into what is always here.
dialogue
The Anxiety of Choosing the Right Practice
A student reflects on having abandoned an intensive meditation practice after encountering non-dual teachings, and wonders whether that shift was genuine growth or avoidance. The teacher explores the deeper pattern of needing to know whether one is doing the right thing.
dialogue
Following Your Own Path Without Certainty
A question about whether not-knowing conflicts with committing to a prescribed practice, and how structure, intuition, and uncertainty relate at different stages of development.
dialogue
When Practice Destabilizes
A question about whether certain practices can feed neurotic patterns and become destabilizing, and how to discern what is actually happening.
dialogue
The Anchor of Nothing Missing
The teacher reflects on the two sides of practice: learning to move skillfully through life, and recognizing that what we are searching for is not actually absent.
dialogue
Nothing Is Missing
A reflection on how the belief that something is lacking drives compulsive seeking, and how recognizing that nothing is actually missing clarifies which impulses to follow and which to let go.
dialogue
The Evolution of Ethical Rules
A reflection on how moral commandments develop from fixed rules into something requiring individual discernment and ethical maturity.
dialogue
Extreme Practices and What Feels Missing
The teacher reflects on the value of extreme practices like fasting, and how to discern whether such practices arise from genuine exploration or from a sense of lacking something.