December 4, 2024
The House of Cards and the Empty Knowing
El castillo de naipes y el conocer vacío
A guided meditation cycles attention through sensation, sound, sight, and thought to reveal the empty knowing that holds all experience, followed by dialogues exploring how mistaking thought for reality is the root confusion on the spiritual path. Further conversations examine the Trinity, the 'high indifference' beyond unity, and how prayer transforms when God is approached as mystery rather than a defined entity to petition.
meditation
The House of Cards
A gentle practice of shifting attention between sensation, sound, sight, and thought to recognize the simple awareness behind all experience.
dialogue
The Knowing Is Empty
A student asks for direct guidance into empty knowing, and the teacher uses the student's own honesty about "going into thought" as the doorway.
dialogue
The Only Confusion
A question about solipsism leads to a discussion of how mistaking thought for reality is the single, recurring confusion on the spiritual path.
dialogue
The Trinity of Relationship
A question about the mystery of love and the relationship between oneness and the three-in-one, drawing on the Christian Trinity and non-dual teachings.
dialogue
The High Indifference
A reflection on how genuine non-dual realization frees one to fully inhabit the relative world, and why clinging to unity as something special becomes its own subtle trap.
dialogue
Prayer Without Defining What You Pray To
A question about whether the habit of praying to an external God, rooted in Christian conditioning, reinforces separation or whether it holds something genuinely valuable.
teaching
Praying to What You Cannot Know
A reflection on how the impulse to pray transforms when we release our fixed concepts of God and enter into genuine dialogue with the mystery of reality itself.
dialogue
Praying to the Creator, Not the Creation
A question about whether replacing a traditional God with "the universe" is just another form of conditioning, leading into a discussion about the nature of true prayer, the mystery of relationship, and what it means to give rather than receive.
dialogue
The Center That Is Everywhere
A student describes a powerful moment of recognition, a sense of the heart's center, sparked by an earlier teaching. The teacher explores how these initial tastes of reality evolve from extraordinary experiences into the quiet, ordinary nature of things.