May 24, 2023
The Unknown Is You: Trust, Mystery, and Presence
Lo Desconocido Eres Tú: Confianza, Misterio y Presencia
This session explores the idea that what we long for is already present and cannot be earned or destroyed, yet we habitually collapse into mental interpretations that create a sense of something missing. Through meditation and dialogue, the teacher examines how the mind's maps and stories become mistaken for reality, and how a leap of trust—not belief—can reveal that even in anxiety and suffering, nothing fundamental is absent. Biblical metaphors, the nature of raw experience, and the difference between hope and present-moment trust are woven throughout.
meditation
The Unknown Is You
A gentle invitation to trust that what you long for is not somewhere else but already here, hidden in the mystery of each moment.
dialogue
Maps, Mystery, and the Fall from the Garden
A conversation about the paradox of stillness and personhood, how mental maps become mistaken for reality, and the biblical resonances of awakening.
dialogue
The Ups and Downs Are Not the Whole of You
A student shares the raw, confusing experience of emotional highs and lows in practice, and the teacher points to something that remains untouched by either state.
dialogue
Trust Enough to Look
A student explores her pattern of forgetting presence, using an image from her medical work to illustrate the anxiety of waiting. The teacher responds with a subtle but precise invitation: even in the midst of struggle, nothing is truly missing.
dialogue
The Anxiety of Something Missing
A student raises the difficulty of anxiety, particularly the anxiety of waiting, and the teacher explores the possibility that what feels missing is never actually absent.
dialogue
Intention, Hope, and the Illusion of Something Missing
A conversation about the difference between trust rooted in the present moment and hope directed toward future outcomes, and how a deep sense that something is fundamentally missing drives much of our suffering.