March 5, 2025
Growing Up and Waking Up Together
Crecer y Despertar Juntos
This session explores the integration of spiritual inquiry with worldly engagement, emphasizing that awakening and ego maturation are two sides of one coin. Through dialogues about ambition, avoidance, and balance, the teacher shows how genuine self-inquiry deepens when it isn't used to escape life, and how facing what we most fear, whether in the world or in stillness, is essential to authentic freedom.
meditation
Always Beginning
A gentle invitation to rest in the timeless present while embracing life's constant change, free from the pressure to arrive anywhere.
dialogue
Growing Up and Waking Up Together
A question about whether one needs a mature ego before attempting to disidentify from it, and how the pursuit of one's deepest desires relates to authentic self-inquiry.
dialogue
Giving to Caesar What Is Caesar's
A student describes feeling disillusioned with spiritual practice after realizing it may have been a way to avoid facing worldly ambitions and desires. The teacher discusses the importance of directing different energies to their proper domains and finding balance.
dialogue
The Balance of Waking Up and Growing Up
A student explores the tension between pursuing worldly ambitions and deepening self-inquiry, and the teacher describes how true freedom requires not avoiding either side of that balance.
dialogue
When Practice Touches Close to Fear
A student reflects on how the intensity of the teaching seems to touch something fearful, and the teacher acknowledges the weight of what has been a long-standing theme in their work together.
dialogue
What You Avoid Is the Fire
A conversation about how avoidance works in practice: the surprise of discovering what you're truly avoiding, and how the path sometimes requires moving directly toward what is hardest.
dialogue
Speaking Up as Practice
A student shares that they don't have a specific question but notice how intense it feels to speak in the group, opening a brief exchange about vulnerability and why it's worth going there.
teaching
When Energy Moves
A reflection on how allowing energy to move and flow brings intensity, and how that intensity manifests differently depending on context, relationship, and depth of commitment.
teaching
Stepping Into the Calling
A reflection on how nervousness and vulnerability can signal a deeper energetic invitation, and why moving toward that edge is a way of stepping out of identification.
dialogue
The Emptiness and the Fullness at a Funeral
A student reflects on attending a beloved cousin's funeral and the powerful experience of grief, love, and loss existing simultaneously, asking whether this points toward the deeper reality of emptiness and fullness.
dialogue
Love, Confusion, and the Full Awakening
A student describes a powerful opening into love, followed by confusion about whether full awakening requires abandoning ordinary life or integrating it, and how to avoid the trap of spiritual identity.
dialogue
The Love That Is Already Here
A student who left a career in entertainment for the spiritual path asks about working with triggers, discomfort, and the difference between shifting a state and recognizing what is already present.