Silent Meditation Day Vol. 10

Whether you are new to meditation or a longtime meditator, Adyashanti’s Silent Meditation Days offer profound insight and direct experience into the essential nature of our true being, and the evolving expression of this essence. Adyashanti reveals how to move beyond hindrances that arise in meditation practice and offers vital pointers that allow the natural state of awareness to more vividly reveal itself in meditation.

Introduction Talk Topics Include:

• The Common Misunderstanding of Meditation
• The Key Attitude to Inquiry
• Reexamining What Meditation Is About

Dharma Talk Topics Include:

• The Compulsion to Define Identity
• The Source of Seeking What We Are
• How Identity is Malleable
• Dropping the Self-Seeking Movement
• Embodying Dogen’s Teaching on “The 10,000 Things”
• The Falling Away of the Compulsion to Identify

Guided Meditation Titles:

• Sensing the Pre-Existing Quiet
• The Subtlety of Just Listening

(Please Note: The content of these guided meditations may be similar to that of previous guided meditations released on CDs and downloads.) 

Closing Topics Include:

• Living in Curiosity
• Meditation as Faith

Quotes:

“At the moment you’re a breathing question mark, that’s meditation.”

“Meditation is about unlearning what we think we know.”

“Meditation is an art; it’s something we discover.”

“We tend to constantly seek newer and better identities. What is this compulsion in every realm of life?”

“Imagine if the whole movement of compulsion to be in the right identity ceased.”

“How can we be aware so that we’re open to noticing things in a way we don’t expect?"

“Being enlightened by the 10,000 things is the birth of a whole new understanding of love and compassion.”

Recorded in Santa Cruz, California on November 9, 2019.
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