April 10, 2024
Nowhere to Get To: Resting in What Is
Ningún lugar al que llegar: Descansar en lo que es
This session explores the futility of efforting in meditation and life, pointing to the recognition that there is nowhere to get to and nothing to fix. Through guided meditation and dialogue, themes emerge around trusting the present moment, seeing through the belief of being a separate body in a world, and discovering that even our suffering is a creation born of love and choice. Students share experiences of vulnerability, pain, curiosity, and the dissolution of deeply held beliefs about identity.
meditation
Nowhere to Get To
A gentle invitation to stop striving and discover that this present moment, just as it is, is already enough.
dialogue
When Curiosity Replaces Control
A brief exchange about the nature of genuine curiosity in practice and how it differs from the impulse to manage or direct experience.
meditation
One Ocean of Aliveness
Feeling into the open, moving aliveness that holds everything — thoughts, sensations, space — as one undivided experience.
dialogue
The Sea Urchin and the Spell
A student describes a painful sensation encountered in present-moment awareness, likening it to holding a sea urchin, and asks whether the root of this pain is the belief that one is a body inside an external world. The conversation expands into how we choose our suffering out of love, and how seeing that choice clearly can dissolve the spell.