June 4, 2025
The Thin Veil of Mind and What Lies Beyond
El delgado velo de la mente y lo que yace más allá
A guided meditation on recognizing thought as thought reveals how past, future, and the sense of a separate self appear only in imagination, while sensation and perception offer a more intimate reality. The dialogues that follow explore the illusion of the resisting entity, the anticlimax of seeing through identification, the refuge of intellectual knowing, and the paradoxical union of spaciousness and intimacy.
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The Thin Veil of Mind
An invitation to recognize thoughts as thoughts and rest in the direct, intimate texture of sensation, sound, and sight.
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The Entity That Wants to Hold the Reins
A student describes a powerful opening followed by racing thoughts and a new kind of identification, and asks how to work with the urge to control what is appearing.
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The Thin Line Between Surrender and Seeing Through Resistance
The teacher explores the impossibility of truly resisting present experience, and how the sense of an entity that resists is itself only thought.
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The Vehicle, Not the Driver
A reflection on the difference between identifying with the imagined self and recognizing it as merely a tool for communication, and how this recognition transforms one's relationship with thought and sensation.
dialogue
The Illusion of the Problem
A student discovers that the very identification they were trying to fix was itself an illusion, leading to a wide-ranging exploration of the doer, the refuge of intellectual knowing, and the paradox of spaciousness and intimacy.
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The One Who Never Left
A student reflects on how pretending not to be lost is itself a form of avoiding life's fundamental pain, leading to a discussion of the prodigal son parable and the purpose of contemplative practice.