The Clothes You Were Already Wearing
Savoring What Is and the Pain We Avoid
April 30, 2025
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The Clothes You Were Already Wearing

La ropa que ya llevabas puesta

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.

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.

It's a combination of what you were saying today in the meditation and then listening to last week's satsang, which I unfortunately missed. It's like a smoothing of the path: just this, and this, and this. That's it. Just this. There's everything, but there's nothing. It's just this.

That's what it felt like listening to you. I could almost see you mowing down all the bramble and smoothing the path. I felt again today what I felt listening to one of the dialogues from last week, about meditation focusing on awareness versus thoughts. And the question was: do you even need to do that? Everywhere you go, it's all right there. The person asking the questions did a much better job than I could have, and yet they were my questions.

I had this feeling that in these dialogues, you're sewing clothes that fit each one of us so beautifully. And then I had the sense that, well, I've always been wearing these clothes. You're just bringing to our attention the clothes we're already wearing.

Maybe that's been a theme in my life. "How do I make this happen?" And then something happens, and I didn't do anything, and I got something more perfect than I could have imagined. That theme just keeps repeating itself. That's the way it shows up for me.

This theme of savoring: it's not about wanting this or not wanting this, because the wanting is already there. I never thought of savoring in this way before. It's a whole different space, or maybe I'm just more open. I'm looking for words and not finding them exactly. There's a lot of gratitude and amazement, for whatever it's worth.