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Teaching for Week of May 20th, 2013

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The Sign of Spiritual maturity is a Shift in Values

Day 5 2011 Being Retreat

Emotional steadiness in one’s life comes from how profoundly we understand having no relationship to the content of consciousness. (9 min)

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Teaching for Week of May 13th, 2013

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Primary freedom

Day 4 2011 Being Retreat

Assume no relationship to the content of consciousness to discover the deepest dimension of our self, the nature of which is inherent freedom. (6 min)

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Teaching for Week of May 6th, 2013

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The Mind is a Mechanical Process

Day 3 2011 Being Retreat

The mind is a machine and has no self nature. If you know it’s not you, then you don’t have to do anything about it. (9 min)

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(This is Audio #13 from the “2011 Being & Becoming Retreat Study Module”)

Teaching for Week of April 29th, 2013

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The Nature of Consciousness is Lightness of Being and Joy

Day 2 2011 Being Retreat

If you contemplate consciousness, and assume the position of consciousness, you experience lightness of being and joy, since that is its nature. It’s a position you take, not a technique (8 min).

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Teaching for Week of April 22nd, 2013

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Having No Relationship To The Content of Consciousness

Day 1 2011 Being Retreat

Meditating on consciousness, which is not an object. Something is meditating on nothing, and we are the something. (10 min)

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Teaching for Week of April 15th, 2013

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Part 9– Awakening to the Process Perspective

Part 9 of a 9-Part Series from Andrew Cohen’s 2012 Arizona Being and Becoming Retreat

Andrew describes the dawning of the profound discovery that “I am the energy and intelligence that formed the universe.” He describes this as an evolutionary understanding of the classic Buddhist appreciation of dependent origination. (5 min)

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Teaching for Week of April 8th, 2013

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Part 8– I Can, I Must, I Will

Part 8 of a 9-Part Series from Andrew Cohen’s 2012 Arizona Being and Becoming Retreat

In this clip, Andrew Cohen speaks about the experience of the evolutionary impulse as a propulsion and urgency within the individual. (5 min)

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Teaching for Week of April 1st, 2013

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Part 7 – Understanding Egolessness

Part 7 of a 9-Part Series from Andrew Cohen’s 2012 Arizona Being and Becoming Retreat

In this clip, Andrew talks about what ego transcendence effectively looks like in an evolutionary context. (5 min)

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Teaching for Week of March 25th, 2013

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Part 6 – Taking Yourself Seriously

Part 6 of a 9-Part Series from Andrew Cohen’s 2012 Arizona Being and Becoming Retreat

Andrew Cohen speaks about intention or resolve at a deep level when we take ourselves, and our aspirations to develop spiritually, seriously. Cultivating this profound intention is how we become strong and powerful vehicles for Spirit in the world. (4 min)

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Teaching for Week of March 18th, 2013

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Part 5 – Inconceivable Positivity

Part 5 of a 9-Part Series from Andrew Cohen’s 2012 Arizona Being and Becoming Retreat

What if you discovered that there is an immeasurable positivity inherent in the life process? Andrew Cohen describes a fundamental difference between Traditional Enlightenment’s relationship to the world and Evolutionary Enlightenment’s relationship to the life process. (5 min)

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