A guided meditation invites recognizing anticipation and the sense of lack as appearances, not something to resolve, so that the intimacy and beauty of the present moment can be felt directly. In the dialogues that follow, the teacher describes fear as the avoidance of ending and pain, vulnerability as the door to love, and being 'in the mind' as an illusion, while students explore ordinary clarity, following what they love, and the difference between necessary and unnecessary pain. The session closes with an inquiry into how unseen fear drives a life, how preferences grow wiser through direct experience, and how awakening moves back and forth through deeper layers, illustrated by the metaphors of a clenched fist and Christ's trials.