Meditative Self-Inquiry with Oda Lindner, April 23, 2026

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We met at the Pavilion in Victoria. There were two requests for this meeting: to dialogue about curiosity and about relationship.

As in the last few meetings we began with 10 minutes of Bodymeditation, connecting to the body and asking : “Can we feel where the body ends and the space around it begins?”

Exploring tingling and sensations in the body brought us to questions about pain and what it does to both body and awareness. Can we be curious about pain? Is it possible to expand the space around pain through curiosity? One of us was experiencing more severe pain and was pointing out that severe pain does not allow for space and curiosity.

Another then asked if it was possible to see the whole when there is pain. Can we be wit the pain?Can we watch the motives for moving away from pain? Can there be a completeness with the seeing and being with the whole process?

Opening everything up to curiosity, where possible, seems to increase space and awareness. Is it possible to see the whole without attachment or looking for results? At what point do we move away from the whole thing? Can awareness see the whole movement of shifting and changing? Can we stay even with the anger about pain? These all were questions that came up.

We also saw that life moves constantly and seems to be ungraspable. The mind tries to fix a point and grasp it, but it can’t be held down, so the mind begins to see the impossibility of fixing and grasping. It sees the futility of that. Does it then not become quiet, open and curious? Does life then not come from the unknown?

Tying it back to pain we asked: is there the openness even in chronic pain to see how that pain shifts and changes? Is there energy enough to keep up that curiosity?

Finally one of us pointed out that pain is a contraction or concentration of the free flow of life. There is a density of concentration. Can we see this in each other? We are all human and all know these contractions of the free flow of life. Can there come out of this a natural empathy and a way of being with each other?  

 

  • Oda Lindner