Silent Retreat Vol. 29

This 10-download set contains the engaging talks and insightful dialogues from Adyashanti's 5-night silent retreat at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in November 2012. Recorded live, this extended-length download set includes over 14 hours of Adyashanti's most powerful form of teaching.

Please Note: Guided meditations from this retreat are not included in this download set; they may be purchased as a separate download set.

Topics Include: 

• Phases of Spiritual Progression
• Wisdom of the Four Elements
• The Trivial Nature of Ego
• The Wisdom of Anger
• Unshackling God
• Stories of Adya's Lineage
• Inside the Walls of Fear
• Walking Down the Mountain
• Losing Self-Reflection
• Selling Out Truth
• Compassion for Self-Vulnerability
• Does the Absolute Have an Agenda?
• Embracing All Your Humanity
• Beyond the Boundary of Knowing
• "Yes" Is the Ultimate Surrender
• No Inner Life
• The Yin and Yang of Meditation
• The Draw and Resistance to Union

Quotes from this Download Set:

"Retreat is a place where we all come to die."

"Life is so dependable. Everything always happens exactly when it does without fail."

"Expecting perfection leads to an instant loss of balance."

"Everyone's journey to nowhere is unique."

"A good test of truth: does it break the bond of separation or does it feed it?"

"All sounds arise from silence; all thoughts from thoughtlessness; all experience from non-experience."

"Notice that within you which can only let everything be as it is."

"Sometimes all you can do is to expose your confusion and lostness to the light."

"When people look inside, the mistake they make is to look into their knowing instead of into direct perception."

"Slide back the curtains of knowing."

"Ultimately we have to find that place where wisdom and love are the same thing."

"There is no self-image in the core of the ego."

"Nobody has ever let go of an addiction quality through will or resistance."

"Innocence is the lack of constant self-reflection."

"Awakening is spontaneously turning back toward what we turned away from."

"Spirituality is the capacity to perceive without the veil of the conditioned mind."

Recorded in Pacific Grove, California on Nov. 25-30, 2012.
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