Silent Retreat Vol. 71 ~ Talks

This 6-download set contains all of the Talks from the April 2019 silent retreat at Garrison Institute including the first evening talk and the morning talks. (Note: There was no talk given on Day 5am).

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

Talk Topics Include:

• The Power of Seeing “Hang-ups”
• How Perception Causes Suffering
• The First Gate of Awakening
• Encountering the Misperception of “Me”
• Interconnectedness Like a Fishing Net
• Orienting to Letting Go vs. Opposing
• Perceiving without the Dualistic Filter
• The Profound Intangibility of Things
• Mature Freedom
• What Comes before Unity
• Relating from Nonattachment
• The Fear of Annihilation
• Healing the Contraction of Separation
• Our Relationship with Thinking
• This Moment Is Interrelatedness
• The Dilemma of Self-Consciousness

Quotes:

“An awakened perspective shows us not what we awaken to but what we awaken from.”

“The big delusion of ego is that ‘I’ am the creator of all ‘my’ thoughts." 

“Everything you define yourself as is an image. Behind that is not a better version of yourself.” 

“Notice that everything is already being the way that it is.”

“The other side of ‘will’ is ‘willingness.’”

“We can get so deeply introverted in spiritual practice that we miss the little moments.”

“Suffering is very often caused by a misalignment of perception of the moment.”

“Find what was never lost.”

“Awareness is the common denominator to all experiences, good or bad.”

“A ‘revelation’ is revealing what was already there.” 

“Nirvana is the experience of no friction.”

“The self is simply an existential clench in the gut of ‘no.’”

“Emptiness turned over is interconnectedness.”

“There’s actually no such thing as nondual language. There’s nondual ideas but there’s no nondual language.”

“When we actually perceive the ‘thus-ness’ or ‘such-ness’ of something, we are perceiving it to being nothing but interrelatedness itself.”

“Enlightenment is seeing that awareness and the objects of awareness are actually not different.”

Recorded at Garrison Institute in Garrison, New York on April 5-12, 2019.
© 2019 by Adyashanti. All rights reserved.