May 30, 2025
The Freedom Already Here: Trust and Intimacy
La libertad que ya está aquí: confianza e intimidad
This session explores the recognition that true freedom is not dependent on any experience but is already present as our nature. Through meditation and dialogue, participants investigate how to stay present with intense and unbearable emotions, the terror of inner void and silence, and the role of trust in dissolving identification. The teacher emphasizes that intimate, direct contact with difficult sensations—rather than running from them—reveals what lies beyond the mind's projections of wrongness.
meditation
The Freedom Already Here
This meditation invites you to notice the freedom and presence already here, rather than striving to create or earn it through experience.
dialogue
The Doorway in What Feels Unbearable
A question about how to stay present with intense, unfamiliar emotions that arise as deeper layers of identification begin to dissolve, and the fear that these emotions will make normal life impossible.
dialogue
The Crack in the Belief
A student describes how the word "trust" from the meditation evoked a feeling of being born again, and another student explores how questioning the sense of "wrongness" in difficult experience can open a doorway to something new.
dialogue
Trust Without an Outside
A student shares how practicing presence has naturally loosened attachment to future outcomes. The teacher refines the notion of "external" fulfillment, pointing out that what we call external exists only in imagination, and that the problem arises when thought is no longer seen as thought.