August 5, 2026
Waves and the Ocean: Being Seen by Awareness
Las olas y el océano: Ser visto por la consciencia
A guided meditation uses the metaphor of waves and ocean to distinguish the changing contents of experience from the silent knowingness that holds them. The dialogues explore how the mind defends the identity we're attached to, how teachings are heard differently before and after a shift, and a teacher's account of a radical dissolution of the separate self under the gaze of pure awareness.
meditation
Waves and the Ocean
Rest in the awareness that holds every thought and feeling, discovering that you are the whole ocean, not just its passing waves.
dialogue
Two Plus Two
A student returns from a difficult trip visiting family, where old mental habits grew loud even as she managed not to react. The teacher speaks to how the mind works to preserve the personality we are identified with, and what changes when we stop believing we are the mind construct.
dialogue
The Painting Behind You
A question about the origin of the name "Accepting Love," and how the words of a teaching are heard differently before and after a shift in understanding.
dialogue
The World Seeing Back
A teacher recounts a night of radical shift, when the sense of a separate self looking out at the world dissolved into a single seeing, and a student describes feeling that same current from beside him.
dialogue
Being Seen
A conversation about the experience of being seen by everything, and how fear and projection shape whether that seeing feels terrifying or empty.
teaching
The Wave and the Water
A teacher describes the collapse of the personal self under the gaze of pure awareness, the danger of interpreting visions too literally, and the distinction between the appearances that come and go and the knowing that remains.