Silent Retreat Vol. 42

This 7-download set includes Adyashanti's Talks (the first evening and all of the morning sessions) from the April 2015 silent retreat at Garrison Institute.

Please Note: The Q&A Sessions and Guided Meditations from this retreat must be purchased separately and are also available in download form. 

Talk Topics Include: Breaking the Addiction to Thinking / Communion with Reality / The Irreducible Quality in You / The Illusion of Willpower / The Transformational Power of Total Acceptance / Shifting How We Look Inside / What Is Your Fundamental Ground? / Radical Surrender / The Double Bind of Ego Contraction / Reality as Love and Violence / Freedom from the Demand of Being / Opening to Preverbal Conditioning / Developing Two Kinds of Stability / Awakening Often Brings Unexpected Conditioning / Releasing Biological Conditioning / The Love of Discovering Truth / How Real Love Orients / Respecting Our Human Psychology / Living the Deepest Thing We Know / The Great Transmission of Little Moments

Quotes from this Download Set:

“If you place a stone on the top of a lake, and let it go, it naturally falls to the bottom. This is a great metaphor of what spirituality is all about. We’re actually descending into the ground of our being.”

“There is no stress in being what you are; there is much stress in trying to become what you’re supposed to be.”

“Silence and inquiry make you prone to insight.”

“What if everything was IT (the Infinite)? What if you really took that seriously?”

“Checkmate moments are the revolutionary moments.”

“The more you stop defining God, the more boundless you feel.”

“Reality doesn’t have an opposite. It’s not a separate domain of existence. It’s all inclusive.”

“If you bring angry energy to a preverbal condition, it locks it in. If you bring kindness and compassion, you can release it.”

“After a big realization, we are often hit with an unexpected form of conditioning that we don’t understand. It arises because there’s enough inner stability to let it arise.”

“The journey to God will take you beyond your relationship with God.”

“Believe it or not, your ordinary life is the face of God.”

“You don’t have to be enlightened to manifest the deepest thing you know.”

Recorded in Garrison, New York on April 17-24, 2015.
© 2015 by Adyashanti. All rights reserved.