Silent Retreat Vol. 41

This 10-download set contains the engaging talks and insightful dialogues from Adyashanti's 5-night silent retreat at Mount Madonna Center in February 2015. 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.

Talk Topics Include:

• The Poetry of Life and Religion
• Enlightenment Doesn’t Eliminate Suffering
• Embracing the Tough Stuff
• Limitations of the Absolute View
• Opening to Paradoxical Perceptions
• Trusting Your Spiritual Instincts
• Reality Is a Crucible
• There’s No Endpoint
• The Unlimited Love of Truth
• The Natural Instinct to Evolve
• Being Fluid with Perspectives

Q&A Topics Include:

• The Fluidity of Enlightenment
• Cutting through Negative or Positive Self-Image
• Encountering Psychological Death
• How to Approach Fear
• Awakening in the Gut
• Only Awareness, Nothing Added
• Dealing with Pain from the Heart
• Experiencing Presence Despite Pain
• When There’s No Will or Drive
• The Ceasing of Self-Consciousness

Quotes from this Download Set:

“We don’t just wander around ‘in’ nature, we are a part of nature.”

“We’ve lost our connection to the poetry of religion; we’re stuck in the prose of it.”

“Enlightenment isn’t an escape hatch—it’s embracing all the dimensions of life.”

“Awakening is an ever unfolding process; not an event.”

“Whatever you’re experiencing, trust it.”

“Meditation is a concentrated time to listen to the mystery of you.”

“Even the most enlightened are practicing evermore—there’s no end to the infinite.”

“As soon as you think you’ve arrived you become a dangerous human being.”

“The way the mind packages the idea of realization is a set up for suffering.”

“Your willingness to be honest brings you to more clarity.”

“Unity has limitations because it’s one state amongst infinite states.”

“Ego is a perspective.”

“Enlightenment is not about being able to sustain any perspective.”

“Fear is a guardian; it’s guarding something sacred.”

“The flip side of existential fear is awe and wonder.”

“If you don’t recoil from tragedy it brings you into a deeper alignment with life.”

Recorded at Mount Madonna Center in Watsonville, California on February 8-13, 2015.
© 2015 by Adyashanti. All rights reserved.