May 7, 2025
The Taste of Thought and the Unknown
El Sabor del Pensamiento y lo Desconocido
A guided meditation on tasting experience directly rather than avoiding it, followed by dialogues exploring the distinction between thought and direct perception, the role of identity as avoidance, and how what we most want often resembles what we most fear. The teacher emphasizes that freedom comes not from changing experience but from recognizing thought as thought and savoring what is.
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The Taste of What Is
*Exploring open awareness*
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The Practice of Tasting Thought
A student asks about the tension between redirecting attention away from thought and learning to stay with thought, and wonders how one knows when the work is "done."
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The Sound of a Bird Is Not the Bird
A student expresses deep frustration with the distinction between direct experience and interpretation, feeling that years of hearing about it have left them no closer to understanding. The teacher offers a simple, concrete reframing.
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The Edge You Can't Quite Cross
A question about struggling with resistance to simple tasks, and the habit of being hard on oneself for not being able to push through.