May 24, 2023
The Unknown Is You: Trust, Mystery, and What Stays
Lo Desconocido Eres Tú: Confianza, Misterio y Lo Que Permanece
A meditation session exploring how the mind's interpretations are mistaken for reality, creating a sense that something is fundamentally missing. Through dialogues on anxiety, emotional ups and downs, biblical resonances, and the difference between hope and trust, the teacher points to something subtle and untouched that is always present, inviting a leap of faith into direct experience rather than belief.
meditation
The Unknown Is You
An invitation to rest in the present and notice how the mind sells stories about what you're missing.
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.
teaching
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.