July 26, 2023
Nothing Is Missing: Seeing Through the Mind's Strategies
Nada falta: Viendo a través de las estrategias de la mente
This session begins with a meditation on dissatisfaction, the sense of self, and intimate contact with bodily sensations, then moves into dialogues exploring what happens when spiritual strategies begin to fail. Students and teacher discuss the frustration of seeing through one's own mechanisms of control, the core wound of feeling something is fundamentally wrong, and how physical symptoms can accompany deep energetic shifts in practice.
meditation
Nothing Is Missing
A gentle exploration of dissatisfaction, the sensations beneath it, and what remains when you look closely at the sense of me at its center.
dialogue
The Frustration of Seeing Through Your Own Strategies
A student describes a growing sense of futility and depression as their spiritual strategies seem to fail, and the teacher reflects on what it means when the mind begins to see through its own mechanisms of control.
dialogue
The Wound That Cannot Be Fixed
A student describes a growing sense of pointlessness in meditation, and the teacher explores how seeing through one's own strategies is actually a sign of deepening, eventually pointing toward the core dissatisfaction that no change of state can resolve.
dialogue
Seeing Isn't Doing
A meditation group explores the difference between seeing strategies and trying to change them, the physical symptoms that can accompany deep practice, and how pivotal decisions seem to arrive on their own rather than being made.