Silent Retreat Vol. 60

This 7-download set contains all of the Morning Talks from the September 2017 silent retreat at Omega Institute, including the first evening talk and final morning talk.

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

Talk Topics Include:

• The Effortless Ground of Being
• Seeing beyond the Narrative
• Nonattachment in the Three Centers of Being
• The Significance of Intentionality
• Allowing the Natural Resolution of Creative Tension
• The Gift and Burden of Self-Consciousness
• How “Not Knowing” Brings Forth Wisdom
• Discovering Your Orienting Values
• The Crumbling of “You”
• The Fear of the Death of Identity
• Loosening the Way We Hold Reality
• All Is Already Redeemed
• Living the Sacred

Quotes from this Download Set:

“Be with all parts of your experience or you’re a prisoner of ‘shoulds.’”

“If you’re at war with yourself, you’re the winner and loser.”

“The goal in spirituality is not self-improvement but rather an act of love that orients you to the deepest thing you know.”

“The only thing that’s in conflict with your mind is your mind.”

“Uniqueness and oneness are actually existing at the same time, in the same way that heads and tails on a coin exist at the same time.”

“People think of eternity or a sense of timelessness like something that just goes on and on forever. Actually, it’s much more concrete when we say timelessness. It’s like the time switch gets turned off, and there’s no passage of time.”

“The experience of being is often something like a sort of aware space—not just experiencing an aware space, but being aware space.”

“Enlightenment is going beyond the limitation of self-consciousness.”

“Unworthiness and meaninglessness are part of the disease of the West.”

“Every time you know you’re lost, you’re found.”

“If you are going to do inquiry you have to stand in the authority of your own experience. You can’t be looking for a definition of your true being that you have heard about.”

“Not knowing is the atmosphere from which wisdom springs forth.”

“Attachment really goes to the very heart of what makes a difference between freedom and bondage.”

“There isn’t a ‘you’ inside of that heart that you’re protecting.”

Recorded in Rhinebeck, New York, September 22-29, 2017.
© 2017 by Adyashanti. All rights reserved.