February 28, 2024
Nothing Is Missing: Presence, Longing, and the End of Seeking
Nada falta: presencia, anhelo y el fin de la búsqueda
This session explores the mind's tendency to create illusions of reality through thoughts of past and future, and how the deep human longing for fulfillment can only be addressed by turning toward presence rather than chasing objects or achievements. The teacher guides students through recognizing that nothing is fundamentally missing from this moment, discussing the dark nights of the senses and soul, the cycle of anxiety and depression as forms of seeking and collapse, and how welcoming pain can open us to the love that is always already here.
meditation
Nothing Is Missing
A gentle invitation to notice that everything you need is already here in this moment, alive in breath, sound, and sensation.
dialogue
The Longing That Never Leaves
A student notices the mind rushing in to claim understanding, and the teacher explores how the deep human longing can only be addressed by turning toward presence rather than grasping at objects or achievements.
dialogue
The Isness Beyond Life and Death
A brief exchange about the fundamental quality of existence that precedes all categories, even life and death.
teaching
Nothing So Wonderful as This
A reflection on how the present moment never needed improving, and how the real obstacle is not negative experience but belief itself.
dialogue
The Simplest Form of Looking
A student asks about the basic practice of looking at experience, and the teacher clarifies what it means to simply attend to what is already here.
dialogue
The Cycle of Chasing and Collapse
A question about the connection between anxiety and depression and the cycle of chasing and disengaging, and whether being present in the now is the way to find peace.
dialogue
The Pain of Being Here
A student describes being caught in a cycle of pain, fear, and chasing peace, and asks why the present moment itself feels so painful.