…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
