March 29, 2023
The Beloved Is Too Close to Touch
El Amado está demasiado cerca para tocarlo
This session explores how direct, unfiltered contact with present-moment reality reveals something intimately close and unknowable through thought. Through guided meditation and dialogues, the teacher examines how the belief that something is fundamentally wrong or missing creates inner turmoil, and how releasing that resistance opens space for creativity, wonder, and clearer engagement with life. Practical life struggles around work, dissatisfaction, and following deeper energy are also explored as expressions of these same themes.
meditation
The Beloved Is Too Close
A meditation on noticing how thought shapes our experience and discovering that what we most long for is already closer than close.
dialogue
The Futility of Battling What Is
A student shares how accepting a racing mind during meditation brought unexpected calm, leading to a broader exploration of why resisting present reality creates suffering, and how releasing that resistance opens the door to creative, direct engagement with life.
dialogue
The Belief That You Already Know
A student recognizes that they approach their experience from a deep assumption that something is wrong and needs to be fixed, and the teacher explores what it means to investigate that belief rather than act from it.
dialogue
Dissatisfaction with Work and Following the Deeper Energy
A student brings a struggle with chronic dissatisfaction in work, torn between music, stock trading, and the desire for financial freedom, and the teacher explores where a deeper energy might be trying to lead.