After many years of Zen training, Adyashanti had a series of profound awakenings that transformed his life. This audiotape touches on Adyashanti's own life experiences and includes responses to questions from the audience.

"With an ever-deeper look into your true nature, you see that this is the nature of 'what is.' It is more intimate than the most sacred pointer or concept. It is where wisdom and love meet and are the same. It is when awareness and everything we see are the same."

Generally, we look upon quiet as a commodity and search for it; this is to take quiet as an addition. There's a whole new opportunity in quiet not to simply take it as an acquisition, but to see what falls away in quietness, to notice how much falls away.

Allan Anderson, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at San Diego State University. He is a poet and philosopher, best known for a video series he recorded with the late J. Krishnamurti.

This is a very good introduction "to Byron Katie's "Work." Katie speaks with Gathering attendees and explores reasons for the arising of egocentric thought, which leads to suffering. A special musical introduction by Peter Makena is also included.

Douglas Harding hardly needs an introduction. He is a highly respected mystic/philosopher who, for more than forty years, has been sharing with others a direct method for rediscovering our original nature. This audiotape records Douglas and his wife Catherine's second visit to the Gathering.

The author of the best-selling book The Power of Now gives a remarkable talk on living in this very moment. The silence that Eckhart Tolle speaks of is palpable throughout, and his penetrating insight into the nature of the mind deeply touches the many people who listened to his talk. This audiotape is an excellent introduction to Eckhart Tolle's work.

Over the past twenty years, Francis Lucille has been holding dialogues and meditation sessions throughout the world, helping people to abide in their own natural state. Francis gently guides through words and a powerful silence.

Gangaji shares her insights through dialogues, retreats, and workshops with people throughout the world. In her second year at the Gathering, Gangaji ends the weekend with a poignant sharing on the reality of death and the richness of living fully present each moment.

Hameed Ali founded both the Diamond Approach and Ridhwan Schools to help others discover what he did: that the ego-sense is an impediment to growth and happiness, and that it hinders our ability to be truly present in the world. His many books, which are published under the pen name of A. H. Almaas,