At Home Retreats
Don Oakley offers a series of at home retreats, which can be purchased and downloaded from Don's Shopify Store.
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Each program is a direct path pointing to your true nature.
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Don offers before and after guidance on how to best use this content.
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Audio downloads for all videos, and text files are included for Don's Discourses.​​
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If a long-lost aunt gave you a million dollars in her will, but you didn't know of her gift, it wouldn't do you much good. Your True Nature is like that. The gift has already been given, but we may not be aware of it. It is good news indeed that we don't have to earn the gift or be worthy of the gift. We only need to recognize the gift. The tricky part is that it is hard to recognize something when we are looking in the wrong direction. This weekend will be devoted to pointing as directly as possible to your already existing inheritance.
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Key topics: True Nature is Already Present, Meditation and Silent Sitting, Inquiry and Deep Questioning, Limitations of Conceptual Thinking, Unborn Awareness, Misguided External Seeking, Wholeness and Completeness
There are many spiritual practices suggested to seekers as the true path and most do have value. But, since these body/minds have limited time, energy and resources, the question really is, "what is the most efficient and direct path that is likely to produce my desired results in this lifetime?" If we can recognize our True Self all else will follow. Our True Self can be recognized in a moment. This retreat is structured to create the fertile ground for that discovery.
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Key topics: Direct Experience Over Belief, Awareness as the True Self, Letting Go of Conditioning, The Investigative Approach to Spirituality, The Illusion of Fulfillment Through External Means, Observing Without Controlling, The Limitations of Thought and Language, Questioning Assumptions, The Ever-Present Nature of Being
We may seek in many directions for fulfillment, excitement, pleasure, meaning and purpose and then, one day, we might wonder who it is that is doing all this seeking? Such a moment is a very significant change of trajectory. It is the first step in a journey home to discover what is truly living this Life.
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Key topics: Beliefs and Conditioning, Searching for Fulfillment, The Nature of Awareness, Limitations of Thought and Concepts, The Importance of Direct Experience, Non-Dual Understanding, Self-Discovery, Letting Go of Dogma
We may imagine that our journey toward enlightenment will be one of gradually increasing peace and happiness until, one day, we will be so peaceful and happy that we will be forever enlightened. While there may well be moments of bliss and powerful spiritual experiences along the way, we will likely find that our greatest breakthroughs will come more from what is lost than what is gained. Failure, paradoxically, is likely the way forward.
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Key topics: Silence as a Gateway to Presence, The Nature of Thoughts, The Power of Inquiry, Awareness as Our True Nature, Letting Go of the Conceptual Mind, The Illusion of the Separate Self, Spiritual Awakening as a Shift, Not an Attainment, The Role of Suffering