April 30, 2025
Savoring What Is and the Pain We Avoid
Saborear lo que es y el dolor que evitamos
This session explores savoring present experience as an alternative to subtle resistance, and how genuine peace doesn't require pain to disappear. Through several dialogues, the teacher addresses the trap of comparing present experience to past glimpses, the value of reclaiming humanness alongside disidentification, and how rejection narrows the field of possibility while openness allows freer movement.
meditation
Savoring What Is
An invitation to stop resisting your present experience and instead taste each sensation, thought, and feeling with tender, curious attention.
dialogue
The Clothes You Were Already Wearing
A student reflects on the recurring discovery that what they were seeking was already present, and on the experience of hearing teachings that seem tailored precisely to their own questions.
dialogue
Peace That Doesn't Require the Pain to Go Away
A student describes an unexpected encounter with persistent pain during meditation, and the teacher explores how the mind uses fear to avoid feeling, and how genuine peace can coexist with discomfort.
dialogue
The Trap of Wanting Yesterday's Experience
A student describes a powerful experience of selflessness and asks how to reconcile the clarity of that glimpse with the return of ordinary, seemingly false experience.
dialogue
Free to Be Fully Human
A student shares how reconnecting with their own humanness has helped them see thoughts and feelings more clearly, and the teacher explores how disidentifying from the body-mind need not mean excluding the human dimension of experience.
dialogue
The Freedom in Being Human
A student reflects on the fear of experiencing their own humanness, and the teacher explores how not-knowing opens the door to a fuller, more embodied humanity.
dialogue
When Fear Leaves Pain
A student observes that deeper contact with what is seems to produce better choices. The teacher explores how rejection, fear, and identification narrow the field of possibility, and how seeing through fear transforms the experience of pain itself.