What Was Always Here
Lo Que Siempre Estuvo Aquí
A student reflects on a taste of peace experienced during practice, and the teacher clarifies that this peace is not something that comes and goes but is always present, only becoming obvious in certain moments.
What Was Always Here
A student reflects on a taste of peace experienced during practice, and the teacher clarifies that this peace is not something that comes and goes but is always present, only becoming obvious in certain moments.
It is more just this realization that what you have tasted is actually always here. It does not come and go. It just becomes really obvious. But it is not something beyond what we already know. It is just that taste you had a few minutes ago of that peace.
The peace within wanting
While you were in the experience of feeling the wanting to be free from the mind, that whole thing just vanished. Not in the sense that it was no longer there. What was happening was still happening. But it was suddenly no longer a problem, and there was laughter. It is that simple.
Recognition deepening into certainty
Then the more we are able to recognize that, over and over and over, the more a shift occurs: the recognition that there is nothing other than that. It can never go away.