March 19, 2025
Paradox, Resistance, and the Taste of Reality
Paradoja, resistencia y el sabor de la realidad
This session explores the freedom found in not resolving life's paradoxes, letting internal struggles serve as nourishment rather than problems to fix. Dialogues investigate how resistance is itself effortlessly accepted at the deepest level, and how partial intuitive knowing differs from full, unshakeable recognition of what we are prior to experience. A recurring theme is the distinction between reflective, form-based knowing and direct, formless knowing beyond thought and sensation.
meditation
The Freedom of Not Resolving
A meditation on letting life's tensions and contradictions stay unresolved, allowing them to open you rather than rushing to find an answer.
dialogue
The Effortless Acceptance Beneath Resistance
A student describes noticing a deeper layer of acceptance behind their resistance to pain, and the teacher explores how resistance itself is effortlessly appearing and already fully accepted at the deepest level.
dialogue
The Smell of Bacon and the Taste of It
A student describes moments of deep clarity, stillness, and intuitive knowing, but finds that these experiences are eventually obscured by fear. The teacher explores why partial knowing, even when it feels self-evident, is not yet the full, unshakeable recognition that cannot be veiled.
dialogue
The Space Between Thoughts
A student describes a fleeting moment of recognition: the instant after being lost in thought and before the next thought arises, a formless taste of something that cannot be described.
dialogue
The Steak and the Video Game
A question about whether pursuing life changes and personal healing conflicts with non-dual teachings, and how to hold both without falling into avoidance.