Noticing Beauty in Impermanence and Resistance
September 13, 2023

Noticing Beauty in Impermanence and Resistance

Notar la belleza en la impermanencia y la resistencia

This session explores the practice of noticing without trying to change, recognizing that awareness itself is acceptance. The teacher guides participants through seeing beauty in both pleasant and difficult aspects of existence, including destruction and death, and points to how our rejections and resistances are freely chosen rather than fixed truths. Dialogues address the paradox of embracing struggle, contemplating death as celebration, and how pain faced without fear can be known as love.

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Noticing Without Changing
meditation
Noticing Without Changing
A gentle invitation to notice thoughts, sensations, and resistance just as they are, without needing to fix or change anything.
The Acceptance That Is Already Here
dialogue
The Acceptance That Is Already Here
A student reflects on the pattern of resisting and embracing at the same time, and the teacher points to a deeper acceptance that is not something you do but something you already are.
The Beauty in Destruction
dialogue
The Beauty in Destruction
A question about how to be with beauty in the face of destruction, war, and suffering, and what it means to see beauty through what is not beautiful.
The Freedom in What We Choose to Dislike
teaching
The Freedom in What We Choose to Dislike
A reflection on how our rejection of our own beauty is not a fixed truth but a free choice, one that serves our hiding and shields us from the responsibility of self-acceptance.
Noticing the Choice Without Fighting It
dialogue
Noticing the Choice Without Fighting It
A question about whether one should try to override an unhelpful choice once it has been recognized.
When Pain Is Known as Love
dialogue
When Pain Is Known as Love
A conversation about the difference between unnecessary suffering and the pain that accompanies genuine freedom, and why the deepest truths are so easily miscommunicated.
Every Moment Could Be the Last
teaching
Every Moment Could Be the Last
A reflection on how contemplating death, rather than producing fear, can awaken a profound celebration of the life we share with those we love.
A New Mystery
dialogue
A New Mystery
A student tries to articulate a profound shift in how they experience themselves, and the teacher responds with reflections on impermanence and the open flow of love.