April 5, 2025
The Wave You Don't Need to Stop
La ola que no necesitas detener
A series of dialogues and a guided meditation exploring how the habitual urge to fix, process, or remove difficult experience perpetuates suffering. The teacher repeatedly points to a different relationship with fear, grief, and identification itself, where noticing is enough and the free fall of disidentification becomes possible.
dialogue
The Weight of Holding On
A question about the difficulty of letting go when strong emotions arise, and the teacher's guidance on recognizing what is already open.
dialogue
When Nothing Needs to Be Done
A student describes a shift in practice where suffering and the impulse to fix experience have fallen away, and asks the teacher about the relationship between stillness, awareness, and the absence of a doer.
meditation
Undoing Into Intimacy
Gently release the habit of pushing experience away, and learn to meet each sensation, thought, and feeling with open, curious attention.
dialogue
The Free Fall Beneath Identification
A student describes a deepening recognition that what she sees "out there" is not separate from herself, and the teacher explores how the mind pulls us into identification as a way to avoid the deeper, more mysterious feeling of free fall.
dialogue
The Leap Out of Conditioning
A student describes the overwhelming experience of seeing life from an entirely different, unconditioned perspective, and the teacher speaks to the painful transition between identification and freedom.
dialogue
When Fear Becomes a Problem
A question about how to work with emotional energy, particularly fear, and whether one should simultaneously rest in awareness while experiencing difficult sensations.
dialogue
The Wave You Don't Need to Stop
A student describes noticing fear arise when speaking in a group, and asks about the best way to process it. The teacher reframes the relationship to fear itself, challenging the assumption that emotional energy must be worked through and removed.
dialogue
The Bat Behind the Door
A student describes their practice of welcoming fear and processing emotions, and the teacher points out how even acceptance can become a hidden strategy of avoidance.
dialogue
How You Relate to Fear
A question about how one's interpretation of fear shapes the relationship to it, and how listening freshly in the moment differs from applying conditioned strategies.
dialogue
One Taste
A student questions the apparent separation implied by meditation metaphors, and the teacher explores the limits of language in pointing to undivided experience.
dialogue
The Impossibility of Resistance
A conversation about how resistance and illusion can exist at all, leading into an exploration of intimacy in relationships, the role of discomfort, and following the heart's deeper longings.
dialogue
The Openness That Doesn't Need Guarding
A question about the fear that arises in social situations when openness feels threatening, and how to distinguish between energetic guardedness and authentic expression.
dialogue
What the Heart Protected
A question about navigating openness and self-protection, and how childhood experiences can create confusion around guarding the heart versus guarding the body.