May 21, 2025
Letting Experience Be Part of the Universe
Dejar que la experiencia sea parte del universo
A meditation session on offering all personal experience—pain, struggle, and resistance—to the universe, followed by dialogues exploring the illusory nature of the inner agent, resistance, narrative attachment, and the beauty found in dissolving identification. Students share insights on sitting with difficult emotions, the sentimental pull of personal stories, and discovering spaciousness beneath fear.
meditation
Letting It All Be the Universe
A meditation inviting you to release everything you carry back to the universe and discover the openness that remains.
dialogue
The Agent Is a Whirlpool
A student describes noticing a sense of a controlling agent within experience during meditation, and the teacher explores whether such an agent actually exists or is simply thought.
dialogue
The Illusion of Pulling Away
A student asks about the one who resists difficult feelings, and the teacher explores how resistance is itself an illusion. A second student then raises the experience of a nagging desire to change something even when everything feels okay.
dialogue
The Beauty of the Illusion
A question about tracing compelling narratives back to their root in fear, and the sentimental attachment that makes it so difficult to let the story of "what I am" dissolve.
dialogue
A Parent's Worry About Being Ready
A new parent shares a concern about whether unresolved personal issues might get in the way of supporting a young child through life's challenges.
dialogue
The Safety Inside Fear
A student shares how a sustained practice of sitting with pain and difficult emotions has revealed spaciousness and clarity beneath what the mind labels as unbearable.