August 27, 2025
Tasting Reality Beyond the Map of Thought
Saboreando la realidad más allá del mapa del pensamiento
This session explores how conceptual thinking creates an overlay that obscures direct experience, and how identification with thought produces contraction, anguish, and unnecessary suffering. Through meditation and dialogue, the teacher guides students toward trusting the heart, allowing difficult sensations, and developing an 'acquired taste' for what is real beyond the mind. The session culminates in a radical invitation to consider that one's present experience is exactly as one wants it to be.
meditation
What Is Already Appearing
A gentle invitation to notice that everything in your experience — thoughts, sensations, struggle, even the sense of self — is simply appearing on its own.
dialogue
The Taste Beyond the Map
A question about whether a meeting is truly happening, and how conceptual understanding can obscure the mysterious reality of direct experience.
dialogue
When Fear Doesn't Come
A student describes a powerful opening during retreat, filled with love and intensity rather than the fear she had been told to expect, and wonders whether the absence of fear means something is wrong.
dialogue
What If This Is Exactly How You Want It to Be
The teacher invites a student to contemplate the radical possibility that their present experience is exactly as they want it to be, challenging the deep belief that things should be different.