Silent Retreat Vol. 78 ~ Q&A Sessions

This 5-download set includes all of the Q&A sessions with Adyashanti and retreat attendees during the March 2020 silent retreat at Mt. Madonna Conference Center.

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

Q&A Session Topics Include:

• Dealing with Inner Chaos
• Death and Bardo
• Exploring the Purpose of Life
• What Is Your Life in Service To?
• The Presence of Our Absence
• Unknowing Who We Are
• The Taste of True Meditation
• Rest as Awareness
• Abusive Relationships
• Dealing with Heart-Clenching Energy
• Connecting with the Deeper Ground
• Getting to the Root of Identity
• Finding the Eyes of Eternity
• Insights on the Aging Process
• The Experience of Non-experience
• Unusual Occurrences during Meditation
• Being Thrown Off When All’s Okay

QUOTES:

“Die before you die so you can truly live.”

“Burrow down into the experience of your emptiness and experience it from your heart to discover the vitality of life.”

“Our deepest being is not seeking happiness but for us to serve what we love.”

“Our greatest presence is discovered in the experience of our absence.”

“Notice that Awareness is always at rest, always aware, effortlessly.”

“Awareness notices that there is no doer of these self-referential narratives.”

“Get confronted with the truth that the ego can’t meditate.”

“Get very intimate with what isn’t disturbed in you.”

“Our soulfulness really lights up when what we’re doing outside is congruent with our inside.”

“The world is just starving for authenticity, for something or somebody that’s real.”

“What we are is so much deeper than all our identities.”

“We’ll never find the deepest freedom until we’re free to be in bondage.”

“Spiritually we want to be on the pinhead between what we know and what we don’t know.”

“Sincerity cannot be turned into a technique.”

“If you wait until nothing feels risky, until all feels safe, you will sit on the sidelines of life.”

“To go fully into the Ground of being you need to let go of all images.”

“Nobody can make the meditator drop away because the meditator is the one trying to make the meditator drop away.”

Recorded in Watsonville, California on March 1-6, 2020.
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