September 4, 2024
Tasting What Is: Seeking Until You Find
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This session moves through the paradoxical nature of experience, exploring how light and darkness share one substance and how deeply tasting unwanted experience reveals its richness. Dialogues touch on the fear of commitment collapsing possibility into form, frustration with feeling stuck between past and future selves, the subtle remaining sense of subjectivity after seeing through thought, and the envy that arises in comparing one's pace of awakening to others.
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The Chef and the Guest
*Free motion*
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Light and Darkness Are Made of the Same Substance
A student reflects on how the teaching that light and darkness are made of the same substance resolved a long struggle, describing it as a homecoming.
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When All Possibilities Collapse Into One
A student shares an overwhelming and inexplicable fear that has arisen alongside a major life decision, and the teacher helps trace it not to withdrawal, but to the terror of full commitment.
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Living in the Outcome of a Previous Self
A question about feeling stuck in circumstances shaped by past decisions, and the frustration of waiting to arrive somewhere new.
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Seeking Until You Find
A reflection on why seeking is not the problem itself, but rather where and how we seek, and on the discovery that what we are looking for is always already here.
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The Last Object
A student describes having seen through the sense of a separate self, yet still feels unsatisfied. The teacher points to a subtle remaining identification: an unformed, almost energetic sense of subjectivity that itself is still a thought.
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The Tree and the Forest
A student shares feelings of envy about another participant's apparent speed of realization, and the teacher responds with a reflection on the nature of comparison, the process of awakening, and how to relate to glimpses of insight.
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The Understanding, Not the Experience
A student describes powerful moments of expanded awareness and freedom from identification with the body, and the teacher clarifies the difference between chasing the experience and letting the understanding lead.