Freedom as a Way of Living

What does it mean to live a life of liberation? During the 2018 Spirit Rock intensive, Adyashanti shows how, regardless of our level of awakening, we can embody the deepest insight we know. He explores diving into the depths of consciousness to experience the root of our being and then translating awakened wisdom into a human life of wholeness.

Talk Topics Include:

• How Religious Stories Link to Our Unconscious Dream State
• The Driving Forces of Your Experience
• How We Tread Water on the Void
• What Is at the Root of Being?
• Two Ways the Enlightenment Impulse Plays Out
• The Domain of Pure Potentiality
• The Great Embrace
• Being Absolutely Nothing and Absolutely Everything
• Wholeness vs. Perfection
• Functioning from Wholeness
• What Sages Sacrificed For
• Embodying the Deepest Thing You Value
• Embodiment in Small Moments

Q&A Topics Include:

• What Is a Divine Individual?
• Abiding in the Felt Sense of Awareness
• Devotion to the Abyss
• The Meaning of Meaning
• Working with Scary Deities
• Surrendering to Being Checkmated
• What’s Your Service?
• Loneliness vs. Aloneness
• Really Seeing Another

Quotes:

“If we finally get over the idea of enlightenment as a cosmic finish line, then we don’t have incompleteness.”

“We don’t become Buddhas; we are Buddhas.”

“If we don’t enter into aloneness, we don’t connect. Through aloneness comes connection.”

“The ground of being is using our consciousness to make itself conscious.”

“So much of our narrative is like a dream in the night.”

“If you want to have the consistent experience of failure, try to become an ideal human being.”

“You don’t have to wait to have an awakening to embody what’s already most meaningful to you to embody.”

“The most immediate doorway into your depth is to just become aware of the silence inside.”

“Silence is the pre-condition of every moment.”

“To the extent that we are deeply connected with the unique form in which life expresses through us, we find meaning.”

“We contain both good and evil. When these extremes become conscious, they conjoin into a whole.”

Recorded in Woodacre, California on October 27, 2018.
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