July 28, 2025
Already Here: Knowing, Pain, and Honest Power
Ya Aquí: Conocimiento, Dolor y Poder Honesto
This session begins with a meditation on the ever-present nature of awareness and the distinction between searching in thought versus reality. The dialogues explore spiritual bypassing, the roots of rumination in suppressed sensation, the relationship between anger and deeper pain, how physical pain reinforces identification, and what constitutes a right relationship to power, privilege, and ethics.
meditation
Already Here
A gentle invitation to notice that what you are searching for is not somewhere else but already present, right here.
dialogue
Spiritual Practice and Spiritual Bypassing
A question about how to discern the difference between genuine spiritual practice and spiritual bypassing.
dialogue
The Pressure Cooker and What Lies Beneath
A student asks about the roots of rumination, leading to a wider exploration of anger, sadness, physical pain, and the patterns of identification that sustain them.
dialogue
A Right Relationship to Power
A question about how to relate honestly to the desire for power, and why true power is never one's own.
dialogue
The Garden That Was Given to You
A question about how to use one's privilege responsibly, and whether privilege is truly ours to wield.
dialogue
The Choice Between Pain and "Me"
A student explores the amplification of physical pain during deep meditation, and the teacher guides them to see that pain arises from identification with thought, presenting a fundamental choice between suffering and letting go of the constructed self.