What is it like to have a direct and intimate experience of being? And what is it like to embody this realization? In this 3-download set of the San Diego Intensive, Adyashanti offers various facets of the enlightenment journey that include experiencing our essence beyond the internal narrative of the mind as well as perceiving and living from an awakened heart.
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Quotes in this Download Set:
“The impulse towards enlightenment itself is actually an impulse towards a direct experience of being.”
“Who would you be if you didn’t define yourself through anything that’s ever been, even the good stuff?”
“The underlying quietness is aware silence. It’s naturally and already aware and quiet. All you’re doing is noticing it.”
“No matter what’s bothering you, keep trying to find the you that is having the problem.”
“You can actually experience the supreme intimacy of being, and simultaneously retain a kind of human sovereignty at the same time. That’s the magic of it; you can be nothing, everything, and somebody—all at the same moment.”
“The trick is to see that a mind-blowing experience and the ordinariness of eating your breakfast this morning was an absolutely equal expression of the nothingness of existence.”
“It’s absolutely essential that you become at ease with your humanness. And you only do it through the heart.”
“The conditioned reflex is whenever you encounter difficulty, whether it’s inside of you or whether it’s in life, is that you leave the heart. At those moments, the thing you need most is to live from the heart.”
“If you don’t decide what your direction is, everything and everybody around you will decide for you.”
Recorded in San Diego, California on February 3, 2018.
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