May 10, 2023
What If What You Want Is Already Here
¿Y si lo que deseas ya está aquí?
A meditation session exploring the radical possibility that what we truly seek is already present in this moment. Dialogues investigate resistance, fear, and avoidance as veils over direct experience, while students share vivid inner imagery and discover that being an open gate of awareness surpasses any object that passes through it. The session also examines how creative expression and presence reinforce rather than contradict the teaching that nothing needs to be attained.
meditation
Already Here
An invitation to explore the possibility that what you truly want is already here, waiting quietly in this present moment.
dialogue
The Open Gate
A student shares vivid imagery from meditation, including encounters with confined versions of herself and a newfound sense of spacious sensation. A second student describes discovering that the "terror" behind resistance is actually dullness and ordinariness, and finding unexpected beauty in simply being an open gate of knowing.
dialogue
The Beauty of Forgetting
A student reflects on how presence and openness have deepened throughout the week, then asks why the mind so consistently veils what has been clearly seen.
dialogue
Facing Fear in the Present Moment
A student describes the difficulty of staying present with unpleasant experience, and the teacher explores how fear operates beneath the surface of avoidance and striving.
dialogue
Fear as Invasive Species
A student describes how fear rapidly colonizes every aspect of daily life, and the teacher reframes this heightened exposure as a hidden opportunity.
dialogue
When What You Want Is Already Here
A student shares the surprising discovery that pursuing music more fully has brought more peace, and wonders why this feels paradoxical when the teaching says what we seek is already here.
dialogue
Arriving Without a Question
A student joins the session late and, having missed the meditation, finds no particular question to raise. A brief, lighthearted exchange follows.
dialogue
Light and Shadow Are One Coin
A question about the relationship between light and shadow, and why moving toward what is dark seems to be the very thing that brings illumination.