Paradoxes of the One

How can the world be illusion but also be real? How can everything be changing and yet there be something called “the changeless?” Is God Darkness or Light? In this 2015 Santa Barbara Intensive, Adyashanti explores paradoxical spiritual teachings as well as other facets of the awakening and embodying process. If we can turn off our flashlights and enter the immense, dark, and unknown dimension of existence, the great mystery becomes the doorway for deeper revelation to come to light.    

Talk Topics Include:

• The Illusion of the Narrative Mind
• There’s Only God
• The Paradox of Real and Unreal
• The Nondualistic Aspect of Human Experience
• Discovering Spiritual Sovereignty
• Commentary on Rilke’s Poem “You, Darkness”
• The Power of the Dark Dimension
• Trusting the Unknown Forces

Q&A Topics Include:

• Fearlessness in Meeting Pain
• Relating from Deepest Knowing
• The Strength in Fearless Vulnerability
• Divorce and Soulmates
• The Value in Depression
• The Love that Releases Suffering
• Transcending the Container of Tradition

Quotes from this Download Set:

“The Middle Way is actually not between the pairs of opposites, it’s all embracing.”

“Nobody sustains an epiphany forever because everything is in movement.”

“Reality is constantly moving and not moving.”

“As long as we are not willing to suffer we will always be trapped in suffering.”

“When you truly embrace your own fallibility, you’ve done if for everyone else’s too.”

“It’s simple to have the sense ‘I forgive you’ but it’s another thing to have the sense, ‘I forgive you for not being the person I wanted you to be.’”

“If we get too strident in making it happen then we get in the way of anything happening.”

“Trust the unknown forces within you to come into consciousness all by themselves.” 

Recorded in Santa Barbara, California on January 24, 2015.
© 2015 by Adyashanti. All rights reserved.