The Embodiment of Belonging

"To awaken to our deepest nature is actually the thing that allows us to belong to the world at large."In this set comprised of two talks from the 2015 Christmas Intensive, Adyashanti brings to light the importance of discovering the true meaning of belonging. Through illustrations of Jesus' challenges with the embodiment of belonging – as well as touching stories about Adyashanti's father's search for belonging – he reveals how to belong to our core being and also to the lives around us.

Talk Topics Include:

• The Evolution of Our Sense of Belonging
• Jesus' Invitation to Belong
• Connection vs. Alienation
• All Grace Is Unearned
• The Buddha's Search to Belong
• Revelation as a Kind of Genius
• Participating in Others' Belonging
• The Significance of Inclusion
• Mary Magdalene's Devotion

Quotes from this Download Set:

"In our society, even with all of our connectivity, we are increasingly experiencing alienation in a deeper and more cutting way."

"We're all called in our own ways to receive grace, and also to generate it."

“If we look back at those people who were really significant in our lives, they actually made us feel a kind of belonging, an inclusion.”

“Faith is the ability to sustain the state of not knowing.”

“Jesus had an intimate relationship with God, which means he had an intimate relationship with his divinity. He belonged to himself.”

“Jesus, this God-man, this enlightened being, is also someone who experiences his extraordinary human vulnerability.”

"Jesus had such a sensitivity to anything or anybody that felt like they were excluded. That was how his compassion operated."

Recorded in Palo Alto, California on December 19, 2015.
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