March 22, 2023
Boundless Field and the Map Maker
El campo ilimitado y el cartógrafo
A meditation session exploring direct experience beyond the mind's labeling, the dissolution of inside/outside boundaries, and the search for a center that knows. Through several dialogues, the teacher addresses contentless fear at the edge of dissolution, the habitual filter of conceptual map-making, and how loving compassion and other qualities of true nature are always available unless we believe we have forgotten them.
meditation
The Boundless Field
An invitation to notice raw experience as one boundless field, gently questioning the mental boundaries between inside and outside, self and other.
dialogue
The Root of Fear Without Content
A student describes an experience of deep pleasure and bodily dissolution in meditation, followed by periods of intense, contentless fear. The teacher explores what this fear points to and how to investigate it.
dialogue
The Map Maker and What Lies Beneath It
A student describes a joyful meditative experience in which the body seemed to come apart and dance, and asks how to carry that sense of peace into everyday life.
dialogue
Functioning Without the Map
A reflection on how direct experience can replace the habitual filter of conceptual thinking, and how trust allows us to function from a deeper part of our being.
dialogue
Trusting Beyond What You Know
The teacher speaks to the depth of trust required when one begins to move past familiar self-knowledge toward something larger.
teaching
The Pull of Preference and the Steadiness of Equanimity
A reflection on how the mind's habitual preferences shape experience, and how equanimity allows awareness to remain steady amid pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral feeling tones.
dialogue
The Lab of Self-Exploration
Two students share how the practice of guided meditation has begun to affect not only their inner lives but also their capacity for action and self-relationship in the wider world.
dialogue
The Lovingness That Is Already Inside
A teacher shares a meditation experience of deep, accepting love connected to the memory of a beloved teacher, and is guided to question whether that love is truly located outside, in certain people, places, or moments.
dialogue
The Forgetting Trap
A student describes how loving compassion is clearly always present when recognized in meditation, but seems to be forgotten in ordinary life. The teacher explores how "forgetting" can become a self-reinforcing belief, and how the impulse to disown our true nature is itself a free choice.