24. Mental Constructions

28. Leading and Living from Awareness

How is our life different when we are truly aware? How does our experiencing of life change when we are mostly present and not lost in mind-made stories and narratives? What is the impact we have on others when we are responsible for ourselves and our actions? When we lead not from a victim place, but from a place of full awareness, responsibility, courage, and agency?

27. The formless now

As we come to the end of the course, everything starts to merge together, and we become more intimate with the ever-present, never-ending, all-encompassing, formless Now. We learn to return here over and over again.

26. Beginner's mind

In this episode we enter the famous and extremely profound teaching and pointer of Zen Buddhism: Beginner's Mind. We fall back into the raw and direct experience of our senses, our curiosity and our not knowing minds. Taking back a step to awareness. We allow ourselves not to know, not to have an opinion, and to observe life and the world not expecting anything to be in any particular way. What is here when we can be total beginners?

25. Wordlessness with open eyes

Once again, we practice staying present in the here and now, with open eyes, and aware of all senses, all sensations, all thoughts, emotions and thoughts, allowing everything to be exactly as it is. We are present in the here and now as awareness itself.

24. Mental Constructions

In this episode, we pay attention to how life differs in terms of simply experiencing it, versus making a mental construction of it. We practice going beyond the mental constructions, not reacting to them, while simple acknowledging them as they are: mental constructions. We also learn to stay in the direct, raw experience that life is. Always, in the here and now. Allowing mental constructions to be there, and noticing when they help us, when they limit or hinder us, and learning to differentiate them from life itself.