Silent Retreat Vol. 69

This 5-download set includes all of the Q&A sessions with Adyashanti and retreat attendees during the December silent retreat at Asilomar Conference Grounds.

Please Note: The Talks and Guided Meditations from this retreat are available for purchase separately.

Q&A Session Topics Include:

• Wanting Awakening to Happen
• Pain Is Just Pure Experience
• Getting into the Shoes of Terror
• Dealing with Toxic Family Relationships
• How Cutting Relationship Cords Can Be Compassionate
• How Unworthiness Gets Dropped
• Beyond Doubt or Certainty
• The Secret to Letting Go
• From Controlling Life to Serving Life
• Remorse, Guilt, & Shame
• What’s Underneath Meaninglessness
• The Immensity of Openheartedness
• Cultivating Awakeness
• Take Care of Your Vehicle
• Connecting from Wholeness vs. Lack
• The Exhausted Caregiver

Quotes:   

“Awareness stays the same; only the experience changes.”

“The yearning for God is coming from God.”

“Something in your experience of being is having no difficulty, even when you are having difficulty.”

“If you couldn’t think or imagine, you couldn’t feel bad about yourself.”

“Enlightenment isn’t certainty; it’s a direct encounter with existence.”

“Whatever our idea of ourself is, it’s an idea in our mind, an image. As soon as we stop thinking, it is annihilated.”

“Whenever you see the controller operating in the background, let it go.”

“Contractive movements within us get their power in direct proportion to how much we resist them.”

“Your life is a koan and how you live it is the resolution to it.”

“Every instant is an opportunity to serve.”

“We embody the dharma by lovingly taking care of our life.”

“Meaninglessness is a value judgment. It’s an interpretation.”

“Life is utilizing your consciousness to become itself conscious.”

“Don’t let your spiritual life become a fix-it project.”

“Many times a day, acknowledge what is awake now, and do not dwell on what is not.”

“Awakeness leads to more awakeness.”

“Abide in your innate sufficiency of being. Connect with others out of that.”

“If you keep caring about what people think of you, they own your well-being. The key to your well-being does not lie in the pocket of anyone else.”

“What torments us the most is our narrative about the events in our life.”

Recorded in Pacific Grove, California on December 2-7, 2018.
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