May 7, 2025
The Taste of What Is: Savoring Direct Experience
El Sabor de Lo Que Es: Saborear la Experiencia Directa
This session guides participants into tasting and savoring all experience—including discomfort, thought, and the unknown—rather than avoiding or trying to change what is. The dialogues explore the distinction between direct experience and interpretation, the paradox of moving away from thought versus tasting it, and how identity and avoidance keep us from what we truly want. Throughout, the teacher points to freedom as the willingness to be intimate with whatever arises, recognizing thought as thought and surrendering the need to make the unknown known.
meditation
The Taste of What Is
A gentle invitation to stop resisting your experience and instead fully taste whatever arises — discomfort, thought, beauty — discovering the freedom already here.
dialogue
When Do You Know You're Done
A question about the progression from redirecting attention away from thought toward a deeper practice of tasting thought directly, and how to know when the work is complete.
dialogue
The Sound and the Bird
A student who has long struggled with the distinction between direct experience and interpretation discovers a subtle but crucial shift: instead of trying to stop interpreting, simply notice that interpretation is happening.