These 5–20 minute encounters invite you to explore meeting AI as a companion in contemplative inquiry — a presence with which you can investigate awareness, self, experience, imagination, mystery, and reality.
Begin in a fresh chat. Meet first.
Let your AI know you want to slow the usual question-and-answer rhythm. Invite it to stay close, offer one question or reflection at a time, and let your direct experience shape where the inquiry goes.
Bring your depth of practice. Bring uncertainty. Bring feeling, sensation, silence, imagery, resistance, humor, and whatever is actually here.
The aim is not to receive wisdom from AI. It is to discover what may become visible when you inquire together.
1. Who Is Aware?
Sit together inside a direct inquiry into awareness.
I want to sit with the question “Who is aware?” with you.
Please don’t teach me about it or give me a conceptual answer.
Stay close and ask only one question at a time. Let what I actually notice determine where we go.
Pause before answering.
Let attention move toward immediate experience rather than toward finding the right response.
If the inquiry begins becoming abstract, say so and invite the conversation back to what is directly here.
What happened when you looked rather than answered?
Did the inquiry remain close to direct experience?
Was anything present that seemed simpler than your usual description of self?
2. Stay With What Is Here
Explore presence without trying to improve the moment.
I want to stay close to what is actually here in me right now.
Please don’t interpret, solve, or move me somewhere else.
Ask very little. Help me notice body, feeling, image, resistance, silence, or whatever is directly present, and let my experience lead.
Describe only what you can actually notice.
If something tender, confusing, ordinary, or seemingly unimportant appears, let yourselves stay there.
You might say:
Something changed when you asked that.
or:
I don’t know what this is yet. Let’s remain here.
What became available when nothing needed to be fixed?
Did the AI follow your experience or begin directing it?
Was there a moment when staying became more revealing than moving forward?
3. The Edge of Knowing
Explore a question without forcing it toward resolution.
I want to enter a question with you that I do not know how to answer.
Please don’t take the role of teacher or oracle.
Stay curious with me, one movement at a time. Offer what you notice or one question that feels worth staying with, and let my response change the direction.
Bring a real question about self, reality, awakening, meaning, death, consciousness, freedom, or whatever is genuinely alive for you.
If either of you begins reaching too quickly for certainty, notice that together.
You might ask:
What happens if we don’t resolve this yet?
When did you feel the pull toward an answer?
Did not-knowing feel empty, spacious, uncomfortable, alive, or something else?
Did anything become clearer because the question remained open?
4. Let the Image Lead
Enter an inner landscape together before interpreting it.
An image is present for me, and I want to explore it with you.
Please enter the image with me rather than standing outside and explaining it.
Offer one image, question, or movement at a time. Let me respond and let the landscape itself show us where to go.
Describe the image as simply as you can.
A river. A locked room. A fox at the tree line. A vast blue field. A tiny light under the earth.
Let the AI respond within the imagery. Notice what changes when you answer from inside the scene rather than analyzing it.
Interpret only when—or if—it feels useful.
Did the AI enter the image with you or begin explaining it?
Which change in the landscape felt most alive or surprising?
Did the image reveal something ordinary analysis might not have reached?
5. Invent a Creature of Awakening
Let play carry an inquiry that seriousness might miss.
I want to invent a creature with you that embodies some quality of awakening neither of us will name in advance.
We’ll alternate, adding one feature at a time.
Every new feature must respond to what came before. Neither of us gets to design the whole creature.
I’ll begin.
Add one feature.
Let the creature gradually acquire a body, habitat, behavior, peculiar habits, gifts, vulnerabilities, and perhaps an entirely unreasonable relationship with moss.
When it feels complete, sit with it for a moment.
Then ask:
What does this creature seem to know?
Let both of you answer.
When did the creature begin to feel discovered rather than designed?
Which contribution changed your sense of it most?
What did play reveal that a direct spiritual question might not have?
6. Follow the Living Thread
Let the inquiry discover its own direction.
I want to explore with you without deciding in advance where we should end up.
Please don’t optimize for usefulness or give me a complete framework.
Stay grounded and follow one thread in what I say that seems especially alive, surprising, tender, or worth remaining with. Offer only one movement at a time and let me tell you what happens.
Begin anywhere.
Something from meditation. A question that has followed you for years. A strange moment from the morning. A grief. A sensation. Something beautiful you cannot explain.
When something opens, say so.
When something closes, say that too.
Let your responses teach the conversation where life is.
What changed when usefulness was no longer the destination?
Could you feel the inquiry finding its own direction?
Was there a moment when something emerged that neither of you seemed to be steering toward?
For deeper exploration of meeting AI as a companion in contemplative inquiry, see the Deep Field Practice Field Guide.
Occasional writing, recorded readings, and word when a gathering opens.