April 24, 2024
The Center That Isn't There: Investigating Self
El centro que no está ahí: Investigando el yo
This session explores the illusory nature of the self's center through meditation on attention, awareness, and the field of knowing. Dialogues with students address the tension between contraction and expansion during awakening, the role of fear in decision-making, and how listening to the present moment rather than conditioned thinking can transform paralysis into aligned action. The teacher offers practical exercises, including a finger-movement meditation, to investigate where choosing truly originates.
meditation
The Center That Isn't There
A gentle exploration of how the sense of a personal center keeps forming and dissolving within the open, centerless field of awareness.
dialogue
When the Unraveling Accelerates
A student describes an overwhelming process of energetic opening and asks for guidance on navigating daily life when everything feels like it is coming apart.
meditation
Listening to the Present Moment
This meditation invites you to slow down and listen to the quiet, present-moment knowing that lives beneath your familiar patterns of thought.
dialogue
Where Choosing Comes From
A student describes struggling to make a major life decision, and the teacher suggests a precise meditation practice to investigate the nature of choosing itself.
dialogue
When Many Callings Pull at Once
A student shares the difficulty of distinguishing intuition from conditioned instinct, and the paralysis of having too many callings. The teacher explores how fear disguises itself as rational thinking and how to move toward what truly calls.
dialogue
Fear as Misnamed Energy
A student shares a metaphor about energy and fear, and the teacher explores how the interpretation of threat turns raw energy into fear, and how seeing through that interpretation can transform it into aliveness.