Freeing the Desire to Acquire

Many people in spirituality seek enlightenment by pursuing inner spiritual experiences in a similar fashion to those who seek happiness by acquiring material things. In this 3-download set of the Philadelphia 2011 intensive, Adyashanti shows how the desire to acquire—inside or out—keeps us from realizing ultimate freedom and happiness. Through a potent talk and many insightful dialogues with the audience, he illustrates how real freedom involves being free from the desire for freedom, and sheds light on living the transcendent realization within our unique human incarnation.

Topics Include:

• The Catch 22 of Doing Nothing
• The Search for Permanent Happiness
• Exhausting the Striver
• The Impermanence of “Aha!”
• Coming Down from Waking Up
• The Freedom in Attaining Nothing
• Clearing All Fixed Points of View
• Realizing Spiritual Autonomy
• The Control within Spiritual Practice
• Where Passion Comes From
• There Is No Cause and Effect
• Serving Society from Non-Division

Quotes from This Download Set:

“What falls away is more significant than anything we will acquire.”

“The greatest freedom is not sustaining a revelation—it’s when the thing that grasps for sustaining a revelation falls away.”

“When you open your eyes, existence is seeing itself. When you hear a sound, existence is hearing itself. Existence, which includes non-existence, is already awake.”

Recorded on April 16, 2011 in Philadelphia, PA.
© 2011 by Adyashanti. All rights reserved.