…and yet men do not see it.

An intimate ⁠Christmas Eve morning livestream⁠ exploring what we’re really celebrating: heart-based amazement and love as the pervasive fabric of reality, not some Hallmark conception. We discuss sitting in the unknown without the constant churn of thought creating expectation, how an itch evolved from meditative deconstruction to just allowing what is, and why all religions—Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sufism—point at the same unsayable thing through different words. Includes reflections on Jesus’s teachings about unconditional love and kingdom of heaven, Adyashanti’s “Resurrecting Jesus,” my grandfather’s journey from atheism to experiencing God as absolute magic, and why free will versus determinism is neither/both/doesn’t ultimately matter when you’re here now.

Timecodes and topics:

⁠ 00:00⁠ – Introduction: Christmas Eve Live ⁠

00:36⁠ – What We’re Celebrating: Heart-Based Amazement ⁠

01:31⁠ – Love: Human Conception vs. Pervasive Fabric of Reality ⁠

03:05⁠ – Working Holidays as a Hospital Doctor ⁠

05:44⁠ – Sitting in the Unknown Without Expectation ⁠

11:24⁠ – How Do You Stay in the Unknown? ⁠

14:16⁠ – Being Itchy: From Deconstruction to Just Allowing ⁠

17:04⁠ – Societal Constructs: Taking Sincerely, Not Seriously ⁠

19:04⁠ – Religions Pointing at the Same Thing ⁠

22:43⁠ – Jesus: Unconditional Love and Kingdom of Heaven ⁠

25:49⁠ – Resurrecting Jesus by Adyashanti ⁠

27:18⁠ – My Grandfather in India: From Atheist to “God is Real” ⁠

29:43⁠ – Free Will, Determinism, or Neither and Both ⁠

32:28⁠ – Kingdom of Heaven Spread Upon the Earth ⁠

35:07⁠ – Closing: Stay in the Presence