This talk was given on December 15, 2010, at the outset of Dathün 2010-2011 in Crestone at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center.

"...Unlike materialistic approaches of spiritual attainment, he says the true spiritual journey is one of loss, uncertainty, surrender, and constant opening to the unknown.

Rather than emphasizing heavenly ascendance, this is a tradition of going down—down into the depths of our inmost being, down into the earth itself. It is a gritty path in which we learn to open to the pain, urgent longing, and irrational imperatives of our hearts. By doing so we become more humble, more human, and more ready to meet the whole of experience in direct, genuine, vulnerable, and appreciative ways."

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Music by Steve Roach/ Mark Seelig:

http://www.steveroach.com/music/discography.php?albumID=445

András