October 11, 2023
The Wall at the End of Seeking
El muro al final de la búsqueda
A meditation on beingness as the unnameable ground of experience, followed by dialogues exploring self-inquiry, the collapse of hope as the falling away of escape, and how to meet personal and collective suffering through surrender rather than effort. Students grapple with identification, powerlessness, and inherited trauma, and the teacher points toward trusting what cannot be known and letting the universe live through us.
meditation
What You Are Looking For
An invitation to recognize that the awareness you already are is the very thing you have been searching for.
dialogue
Something Rather Than Nothing
A question about the persistent sense of identification with a limited self, and how self-inquiry and deeper desire work together to dissolve it.
dialogue
The Wall at the End of Seeking
A student describes reaching a point where the drive to seek, both in love and in spiritual inquiry, has collapsed into a kind of hopelessness, and the teacher reframes this loss of hope as the falling away of an escape mechanism.
dialogue
Waiting Without Hope
A student reflects on the discomfort of waiting, having long told themselves that waiting is a form of ignorance, and discovers that waiting may be exactly what is needed.
dialogue
The Door You Open Together
A student asks how to practice when overwhelmed by the suffering of the world, feeling paralyzed and powerless in the face of so much pain.
dialogue
Touching What Feels Like Annihilation
A student shares the overwhelming weight of collective and personal trauma, the fear of feeling what seems unbearable, and the unexpected peace that can arise from meeting that pain directly.
dialogue
The Knot in the Throat
A student, overcome with emotion, expresses bewilderment at human conflict and the generational trauma that perpetuates it.