Unhooked: Reclaiming your Compass to Awareness
Oct 8, 2026 · 10 min · 3 segments
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…
Whatever I hear, that silence that is always here.
The words that come in and out of consciousness.
Smells and tastes that may or may not be present and arise or not.
The feelings of temperature, humidity.
Lights and shadows that arise in consciousness.
Thoughts, feelings, emotions, judgments, opinions, likes, dislikes.
Learning to sit here, allowing everything to be exactly as it is because it already is.
And just removing ourselves from trying to control anything.
And as we learn to take that step back and sit here, suddenly becomes apparent kind of the magical nature of what's happening, how all of this is arising on its own.
We often want to have this kind of illusion that we make things happen, that we have everything under control.
We make up stories that I, I see, I feel.
When actually when I really pay attention, it's pretty spontaneous.
Everything is arising.
There is no I making anything happen.
If I pay attention, I realize it already is.
Whatever I hear, that silence that is always here.
The words that come in and out of consciousness.
Smells and tastes that may or may not be present and arise or not.
The feelings of temperature, humidity.
Lights and shadows that arise in consciousness.
Thoughts, feelings, emotions, judgments, opinions, likes, dislikes.
Learning to sit here, allowing everything to be exactly as it is because it already is.
And just removing ourselves from trying to control anything.
And as we learn to take that step back and sit here, suddenly becomes apparent kind of the magical nature of what's happening, how all of this is arising on its own.
We often want to have this kind of illusion that we make things happen, that we have everything under control.
We make up stories that I, I see, I feel.
When actually when I really pay attention, it's pretty spontaneous.
Everything is arising.
There is no I making anything happen.
If I pay attention, I realize it already is.
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