Silent Retreat Vol. 57

This 7-download set contains all of the Morning Talks from the April 2017 silent retreat at Garrison Institute, 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:

• Living Your Deepest Intention Now
• The Willingness to Hold Unresolvedness
• Core Teachings on Effortless Meditation
• Utter Acceptance of this Moment
• The Uninterrupted Light of Consciousness
• The Phantom You
• Mature Spiritual Looking
• The Ego’s Role in Socialization
• The Paradox of Ego
• Everything Happens Spontaneously
• The Letting Go in Seeing Truth
• Ultimate Truth Can’t Be Spoken
• Everything Is Its Environment
• Teachings on The Enlightenment Impulse
• Outgrowing Sophisticated Spiritual Myths
• The Still Waters of Eternity

Quotes from this Download Set:

“Each human is a point of orientation through which the Universe experiences itself.”

“The closer you look for yourself, the more you realize that what you’re looking at is a kind of phantom.”

“In meditation, you can sit and look for the right experience forever without getting to the real point—who is the one sitting there meditating?”

“Stillness is the experience of complete and utter absence of resistance.”

“Letting go also means letting be.”

“Not knowing is the way to deeper liberating knowledge.”

“Enlightenment isn’t about adding something to your current condition; it’s about revealing something about your current condition. You don’t gain control over your current condition; you relinquish trying to control it. Then you’re not confined by it.”

“We think the enlightened ones can stop their mind. No, they can’t—they’re just not trying to.”

“Every part of your experience is just happening, just spontaneously arising; the seeing of this is also part of the spontaneity.”

“Enlightenment is simply seeing all existence from a wordless place.”

“At some point you realize the self was never there; it was just a convincing illusion.”

“Profound freedom is a profound intimacy with life.”

Recorded at Garrison Institute in Garrison, New York on April 7-14, 2017.
© 2017 by Adyashanti. All rights reserved.