India Retreat Session 1: February 5th, 2026

Guided Meditation: Here, just aware

- Living in the unknown.

- Stay consistent with your practice until being present is your natural, effortless state.

- The canvas and the paint analogy.

- Investigate your own experience: direct experiential knowing of one’s true nature.

- No thinking is required, just resting in Being.

- Noticing the subtle movements of the conceptual self seeking validation.

- The conceptual self seeks a fabricated sense of safety through identifying with constructs of connection.

- Surrendering to aloneness: the end of separation.

- The Buddha and the demons: can you stay here unmovable?

- The only way out is through: meditation draws out unconscious beliefs and past unprocessed energies to be released and integrated.

- The space bar between thoughts.

- Retraining the focus of attention from content to background spaciousness.

- Honoring the nervous system and its capacity.

- Radical honesty, maturity and discernment.

- Letting go of an agenda that something should happen.

- Letting go of the middle-man: direct connection with the divine within oneself.

- The stickiness of thoughts and their pull into identification and suffering.

- Consciously and unconditionally allowing the body to feel and integrate past unprocessed energy.

- Who or what is aware of thoughts being witnessed?

- A two step practice to recognizing your true nature.

- Top down or bottom up: there is no right or wrong way, whatever works for you in each moment.

- Nothing can hurt you, Awareness.

- In essence there is no other, everything is an appearance in you, Awareness, and on the relative level we experience others and ‘their’ energy.

- A shift in identity: You are Awareness.

- Ultimately you are both: formless infinite Awareness and the finite form expression.

Length: 1:30:01