Identification with thought and objects has us immersed in what’s always changing.
We’re immersed in the noise, the movement, the drama, the form. We’re identified with and as the fleeting appearances of things.
No wonder we feel overwhelmed and unstable so much of the time!
Recognizing our true Self as the closer-than-close, never-changing, formless essence of things puts an end to overwhelm, stress and instability. They may appear as temporary feelings, but they no longer feel like you or yours. They are no longer problems.
This recognition is deceptively simple. It happens now, not in a silent retreat in the thought-created future. Let attention relax and widen, not focused on any one thing. Sense what is most immediate right here, right now, closer than thoughts or abstractions.
This is what we steep in during silent retreat. It’s the silent stillness at the center of everything, the formless essence of all form.
It’s always here, beyond the rising and passing of all experience. We’re simply pointed away and distracted from it in everyday life.
A period of prolonged silence is an opportunity to soak in that still, silence that is our essential being. As we touch into it, our sense of it grows and our experience of life completely changes. (I’ll share some of the ways things change on the live call described below).
If you’ve felt the call toward silence, to investigate your essential nature in a direct and profound way, a silent retreat is an excellent way to do that. It’s not a necessary step, but it’s a very, very powerful one.
Free 2-Hour Class
In this 2-hour class replay, I share more about the silence in the center of all things as well as 6 common benefits of prolonged time in silence:
1. Revealing your true, never-changing identity and making that absolutely crystal clear
2. Showing you firsthand that you can safely be in any experience
3. Having a front row seat to watch the self-ing mechanism at play (so that you no longer mistake that for who you are)
4. Getting to see what wants to be seen (there is nowhere to hide — thankfully — in prolonged silence)
5. Physical, energetic, heart-opening shifts that come from energy being no longer invested in thought
6. Reverence, gratitude and love, not as fleeting feelings but as hallmarks of what lies beyond thought
I also share a bit about my upcoming Silent Retreat and take questions. At the end there is an optional 30-minute guided-meditation-turned-silent-sitting together to give you a tiny taste of what’s possible.
The silent retreat I’m hosting in February has very limited availability. If you are seriously interested in the retreat, I suggest you check out the information page and reach out before the live call with any questions. Learn more here.
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