Germany Retreat Session 1: August 29th, 2025 (week 2)

Guided Meditation: How is it to be here without any agenda?

- Identification with a conceptual self can be very subtle: who are you without identifying with the one that wants to be seen or hide?

- Transcendence: you are that which perceives.

- The spiritual ego tries to strategize: you are just aware of the movement.

- No need to strategize how to stay as the witness: forgetting and remembering happens by itself.

- Freedom does not come from the absence of thoughts but from stopping believing them and no longer giving interest in them.

- The oneness chair: grateful to be here.

- What to do when many thoughts and sensations are present in the system.

- Somatic exploration: meeting the experience of powerlessness.

- The practice of embodied Awareness: integration happens as a side effect.

- Somatic exploration: welcoming and gently allowing the experience of tightness in the body.

- All experiences are ephemeral: can you be ok with the experience of this moment, however it appears?

- Abiding in the unknown: the only thing known is the experience of this moment.

- The mind’s need for a fabricated sense of safety.

- Letting go of all formulas: alone in the unknown of the now.

- Action born from the conceptual self Vs the stillness of the present moment.

- No question is required, just enjoying being together.

- Old religious programming and the inner critic.

- No experience creates suffering if you can fully accept.

- The mind is schizophrenic: who or what is aware of all those movements?

- Look fresh: direct experiential knowing of the truth of who you are.

- There is only one Consciousness: everything that appears is an appearance in you, Awareness.

Length: 1:28:04