January 4, 2025
Seeing Through the Reality We Assign to Thought
Ver a través de la realidad que asignamos al pensamiento
This session explores how everything—including resistance, discomfort, and confusion—is already embraced within our fundamental nature. A central dialogue investigates how belief in the reality of thought creates emotional reactivity, using personal examples involving family and loss. A second dialogue addresses the terror of not knowing what is real in relationships and the health of seeing through one's own selfishness and assumptions.
meditation
Everything Is Already Embraced
A reminder that everything you experience — resistance, discomfort, confusion — is already held within a freedom you never lost.
dialogue
The Reality of Thought
A student asks how thoughts can be seen as open and loving when they so often trigger emotional contraction, leading to an exploration of how belief in thought creates and sustains emotional reactivity.
dialogue
When I Don't Know What Is Real
A student describes the anxiety and confusion that arise when she realizes how much of her experience in relationships, including her response to an acquaintance's terminal illness, is filtered through her own thinking and assumptions. The teacher points toward the health of "not knowing" and the way genuine seeing of selfishness opens the door to something beyond it.