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Today I share a very simple way of looking at experience.

Using a drawing of two lines, we explore what is here in direct experience.

One line represents life as it is happening — movement, thoughts, sensations, everything that appears.
 The other points to simple being — the sense of presence, the knowing that you are here.

Between these, there is what we often take ourselves to be — a kind of “bundle” made of reactions, thoughts, and patterns. This bundle seems to be the one living life, making decisions, trying to control what happens.

In the talk, we look at this directly.

In this episode, we continue that exploration in a live Q&A.

A participant describes their experience using the image of a lotus and scribbled lines — something clear and present, and the movement of thoughts appearing over it.

From there, we look more closely.

Is there something underneath that needs to come forward? Or is that another way of thinking about what is here? Again and again, the attention returns to what is actually happening.

Thoughts appear. Reactions happen.
 A sense of “me” seems to form in the middle as a relationship.

But when this is looked at directly, what is really there?

There is a simple shift in seeing — from being caught in the movement, to noticing what is always here.

Music by Valdi Sabev.
In loving memory and gratitude for the music he shared.

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