Beliefs About Self and the End of Knowing
January 7, 2026

Beliefs About Self and the End of Knowing

Creencias sobre el yo y el fin del conocer

This session explores the idea that meditation is fundamentally about beliefs regarding what we are, and that freedom lies in not knowing what we are. Dialogues address a subtle identification with formless subjectivity that creates hollowness and stuckness, the nature of choosing illusion versus freedom, and how deeply held beliefs generate overwhelming emotional energy in the body. Throughout, the teacher emphasizes that suffering stems from false self-definitions rather than from thoughts, states, or circumstances themselves.

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Beliefs About Self
meditation
Beliefs About Self
This meditation invites you to rest in the simple openness of not knowing what you are, letting go of fixed beliefs about self.
The Formless Hiding Place
dialogue
The Formless Hiding Place
A student describes a persistent sense of hollowness and being stuck, and the teacher identifies a subtle identification with a formless subjectivity that, while an advance over ordinary self-contraction, has become a safe but dry refuge from full immersion in experience.
The Freedom of Choosing
dialogue
The Freedom of Choosing
A question about what disidentification really is, whether it implies a separate agent that needs to become free, and why we sometimes prefer to remain in illusion.
The Belief Beneath the Storm
dialogue
The Belief Beneath the Storm
A student describes being overwhelmed by intense emotional energy and asks how to work with it. The teacher traces this energy back to deeply held beliefs and unprocessed childhood experiences, distinguishing between surface emotions and the deeper feelings they mask.
Waking Up Makes Growing Up Possible
teaching
Waking Up Makes Growing Up Possible
A reflection on how awakening enables the body-mind to release its deepest fears, and why even joy and peace can feel terrifying when identification remains.