Nondual Inquiry Labs.

Audio Recordings

1. Nondual Inquiry Lab, 3/6/2026

Lab 1 — Direct Looking Beyond Thought

  • Thoughts and problems: Discovering that problems require thinking, and awareness remains unaffected by thought content

  • The nature of thought: Examining where thoughts come from, whether they have power, and if we actually control our thinking

  • Awareness itself: Investigating the basic fact of being alive and present that exists before all experience

  • Practical inquiry techniques: Learning to look directly at experience rather than explaining or analyzing it

  • Common pitfalls: Identifying when the mind takes over inquiry with explanations, beliefs, and conceptual thinking

2. Nondual Inquiry Lab, 4/3/2026

Lab 2 — The Body

  • Lab format: A collaborative workshop, inviting interruptions, experimentation with wording, and sharing what helps or causes stuckness while using inquiries from the book.

  • “What has always been here?”: Exploring “being/presence” by letting thoughts answer and pass, using a “metaphorical step back” to notice awareness remains even with distractions, and that there is ultimately no separate doer stepping back.

  • Body-as-location: The group questions whether one can directly experience being inside the body, tries to locate where “I” is, and observes only shifting sensations and perceptions rather than a findable center.

  • Edge/border of the body: They investigate whether an actual boundary can be found, seeing “skin” and inside/outside as conceptual additions to visual and sensory impressions rather than direct evidence.

  • Attention vs awareness and the limits of language: A zooming-out exercise shows attention narrowing/widening within what is aware; the discussion points to what is prior to concepts and even the thought “I am,” described as unnameable and unfindable.