This session opens with a meditation on beingness as the ever-present, unlocatable ground of all experience, then moves into dialogues exploring the stubborn nature of self-identification and how deeper universal desire can dissolve it. Students share experiences of hitting walls in seeking, losing hope as an escape mechanism, and facing collective and personal trauma — particularly around world suffering and inherited Jewish trauma — discovering that surrender into feeling, rather than effortful doing, opens the heart to unexpected peace.