Silent Retreat Vol. 56

This 6-download set includes all of the Talks from the February 2017 silent retreat at Mount Madonna Center, including the first evening talk. (The final morning session, which includes a talk followed by dialogues, is included in both the Talks and Q&A Session download sets.)   

Please Note: The Q&A Sessions and Guided Meditations from this retreat are available separately.            

Talk Topics Include:  

• Discovering Your True Questions
• The Original Nature of Mind
• The Futility of Figuring Out Enlightenment
• The Sky-like Quiet Within
• The Whole System Liberating Itself
  
• Presence vs. Personhood
• Befriending the Conditioned
• Is There “Cookie” in a Cookie?
• Mistaking Perception for Reality
• The Irony of Seeking Truth
• Everything Is Spirit
• The Spiritual Impulse of Compassion

Quotes from this Download Set:

“The nature of sky doesn’t change when something is floating around in it. It's the same with the nature of mind.”

“The will of God is what is currently happening.”

“The reason we sit in silence is to let the whole system liberate itself.”

“The absolute quiet is the quiet in which all the noise happens.”

“To be still is to notice the stillness that already is.”

“The best way to not get caught in the conditioned mind is to accept it fully.”

“If you look at a teaching to tell you what the truth is, you’ve misunderstood the value of the teaching.”

“The search ultimately shows you how unnecessary the whole search is.”

“When you realize that all things are everything, the whole search is undone.”

“How do you bring spirituality into your everyday life? You don’t. You see that your everyday life IS spirit.”

“Spirituality can become its own kind of fortress.”

“One of the most beautiful things about spiritual maturity is that you see the divine in all its guises and you stop arguing about which ones are right.”

“The more asleep we are, the more we think we know. The more awake you are, the more you realize how much you don’t know.”

Recorded at the Mount Madonna Center in Watsonville, California on February 12-17, 2017.
© 2017 by Adyashanti. All rights reserved.