June 11, 2025
Already Here: Seeing Through What Is in the Way
Ya Aquí: Ver a Través de Lo Que Está en el Camino
This session explores the recognition that what we seek in meditation and life is already present, and that suffering arises from maintaining a contracted sense of self. Through guided meditation and dialogues, the teacher examines how identity is constructed through habitual thoughts and sensations, using metaphors like the whirlpool in a river. Students share experiences of opening to sensation, releasing the need for control, and finding beauty and freedom in present experience.
meditation
Already Here
This meditation invites you to notice that what you are searching for is not somewhere else but is already present in your experience right now.
dialogue
Where Does the Visual Field Appear?
A student describes a strong preference for meditating with eyes closed and a resistance to keeping them open. The teacher explores how this preference rests on an arbitrary division of experience, and points toward the unchanging awareness in which all experience appears.
dialogue
Letting the Storm Pass Through
A student describes a growing ease with difficult emotions, a sense of aliveness in the body, and the loss of the ability to make feelings into something tragic.
dialogue
The Whirlpool and the River
A student describes a profound shift during meditation when experiencing sensations as coming from herself rather than at her, and asks how to work with the overwhelming nature of sensory experience.
dialogue
The Longing for Direction
A student shares her frustration with not knowing what to do in life, and the teacher explores the difference between seeking an outcome and discovering that nothing is missing right now.
dialogue
Losing the Body
A student describes the strange new experience of no longer feeling like they have a body, and asks the teacher whether this is familiar.