Silent Retreat Vol. 53

This 6-download set includes all of the morning Talks with Adyashanti from the September 2016 silent retreat at Granlibakken Conference Center, 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:

• The True Sense of Quietness
• Listening into the Deep Questions
• The Common Denominator of All Experience
• Everything Is as It Is
• Interpretation Creates Experience
• The Enlightened Unmodified Consciousness
• Relax into the Unconditioned
• The Whole Universe Makes a Blade of Grass
• There’s No Person Inside
• What “Doing Nothing” Means
• Two Seemingly Contradictory Realizations
• The Fusion of Thought and Awareness
• Going In and Out of Your Humanity
• Unity Consciousness Begets Compassion
• The Wisdom of No Escape
• Completely Leave Yourself Alone

Quotes from this Download Set:

“All effort to create silence creates noise.”

“Think of quiet as something you acknowledge, not something you make happen.”

“Imagine that reality is the only thing that’s ever been happening. Everything that we have ever been searching for is already here.”

“If you grasp on to spiritual experiences, you will have all the suffering of a drug addict.”

“We experience our interpretation of an event as more real than the event itself.”

“Thoughts don’t hurt until you believe them.”

“Our whole experience of life is dependent on where our attention is.”

“Everybody has the capacity to temporarily un-velcro themselves from whatever their current commentary is.”

“When we look inside, we eventually encounter our absence, and our absence ends up to be our presence.”

“It’s not you that wakes up, it’s the cosmos that wakes up.”

“Nothing exists without its environment; in fact, it is its environment.”

“To be in the moment is to do nothing about the moment.”

“When the fusion of thought and awareness lets go, identity returns to its natural state of awareness.”

“Every perceivable part of existence is your own being.”

“Whatever your situation is, the more you try to get away from it, the more deeply enmeshed you are in it.”

“Even at the moments that things seem deeply not okay, in the snap of a finger you can realize that everything is okay.”

Recorded in Tahoe City, California on September 17-23, 2016.
© 2016 by Adyashanti. All rights reserved.