Silent Retreat Vol. 70 ~ Talks

This 5-download set contains all of the Talks from the February 2019 silent retreat at Mt. Madonna Center including the first evening talk and the morning talks.

Please Note: The Q&A Sessions and Guided Meditations from this retreat are available for purchase separately.           

Talk Topics Include:  

• Spiritual Understanding vs. Spiritual Realization 
• Penetrating the Inner Protector  
• Entering the Collective Unconscious 
• Stability within Vulnerability 
• Discovering the Ground of Being 
• True Bowing 
• Experiencing Aspects of True Nature 
• What Is Presence? 
• When the Light of Awareness Turns On 
• The Endless Search for What’s True 
• Life Becoming Conscious 
• The Paradox of Unfolding in Completeness 
• You Are the Universe 
• The Perceptual Shift of Awakening 
• The Simultaneity of Unity and Individuality  

Quotes: 

“We are retreating from the pathological avoidance of reality.” 

“The truest intention is something that we receive rather than something we create.” 

“Inquiry is looking at how our mind creates gateless gates, imagined barriers, fears, opinions, and ideations.” 

“The discovery of one’s true nature is a freedom from having to look for, or maintain, a particular condition of being.” 

“Presence is a felt sense of your true nature.” 

“Life is seeking to become conscious, and using us to do that.” 

“Spirituality is simply a way of indicating that we’re plunging beyond the personal consciousness. The depth of our being is just astonishing.” 

“The ego thinks it’s the creator of its thoughts and its experience.” 

“Understanding isn’t the same as realization.” 

“The great issues of humanity are not solved by treading water on the surface of your consciousness.” 

“It’s not our egos that wake up.” 

“What’s always and already complete has no boundaries.” 

“The intellect can deconstruct things, but it can’t connect us to our true nature.” 

“The real magic trick is that we believe that we are separate from life itself.” 

“We can realize a kind of emptiness without realizing emptiness and form are one.” 

“Enlightenment is being able to simultaneously experience unity and individuality without experiencing any conflict.”

Recorded in Watsonville, California on February 17-22, 2019.
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