Silent Retreat Vol. 52

This 5-download set includes all of the morning Talks with Adyashanti from the August 2016 silent retreat in Surrey, U.K., including the opening evening talk.

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:

• What Is the Nature of Stillness?
• The Courage to Be Curious
• The Willingness to Sustain Questions
• The Best, Most Simple Practice
• Redefining What Meditation Is
• The Content and Context of Consciousness
• Discovering the Natural State of Being
• Two Common Spiritual Questions
• Becoming Lucid while Awake
• Teachings from Adyashanti’s Teacher
• The True Measure of Love
• The Fundamentalism of No-Self
• Thoughts Arise by Themselves
• Compassion for How Others Are Wired
• Innate vs. Inherited Conditioning
• All Choices Just Occur
• The Actual No-Self Experience

Quotes from this Download Set:

“We’re so conditioned into trying to attain a state of mind, but we never often explore what’s the natural state of mind, of being.”

“If you have the biggest mind-blasting realization that humanity has ever known, and your consciousness has exploded across space and time, it isn’t going to be experienced that way indefinitely.”

“When we stop trying to control the content of our consciousness, this stopping allows the content to start to come into its more natural unified state.”

“As soon as you’re not thinking yourself into existence, then you don’t exist as a self, whether it lasts a second or the rest of your life.”

“Truth without love is like having only one leg to get around on.”

“There’s ultimately no deep revelation of true nature without there being at least some deep aspects of love.”

“Stillness, in a strict sense, can only be recognized, not imposed.”

“All authentic spirituality begins with a question.”

“You don’t choose the choices you make. They just simply arise.”

“Awareness itself is unconditioned. What it’s aware of is conditioned.”

Recorded at Woldingham School in Woldingham, Surrey, U.K. on August 14-19, 2016.
© 2016 by Adyashanti. All rights reserved.