Spiritual Teachings With Shunyamurti

Discover the Master Within!

Sat, 16 May 2026 10:00:00 -0600

As civilization enters a phase of collapse, Shunyamurti turns to the radical Zen master Bassui to reveal a truth most seekers avoid: spiritual teachings become dangerous when they are reduced to concepts, rituals, or props for an egoic identity. Through an exploration of the decline of dharma during periods of social breakdown, this teaching exposes the difference between true realization and “diluted discourse” (the use of spirituality to comfort, inflate, or deceive the ego). Bassui points relentlessly toward direct recognition of the One Mind beyond words, beliefs, and techniques.

Spiritual Exercises for Pure Joy!

Sat, 09 May 2026 10:00:00 -0600

To get out of the Self of Trauma that makes one want to enter the spiritual quest in the first place, it is necessary to become fully present. The spiritual quest comes down to the will to be present—the only state in which the ego’s obscuration and curvature of space will dissolve. If one can endure the energy of presence, one’s vibrational frequency will ascend to the peak of consciousness, from which the entire circle of time can be seen as the present moment. But for nearly every ego, it is impossible to remain present because that would mean its own death.

Breaking News: The World's Gone Mad!

Sat, 02 May 2026 10:00:00 -0600

In this phase of accelerating degradation—ecological, social, and psychological—Shunyamurti confronts an inconvenient truth: traditional spiritual teachings are no longer working for most people. Drawing on the evolution of Buddhism during past ages of collapse, he reveals how even the highest teachings of nonduality became inaccessible in times of degeneration. This teaching challenges us to stop pretending, to see through the ego’s self-deception, and to discover what can actually bring liberation in this final stage. The question is no longer philosophical—it is urgent and existential.

The Secret Motive for the Hormuz War

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0600

As global crises accelerate and civilization edges toward collapse, Shunyamurti reveals the deeper spiritual truth: the real crisis is not external but within. Conditioned by society and sustained by thought, the ego is the true construct, while God (pure awareness) is the only reality. Drawing on "heretical" Buddhist teachings of decline and delusion, Shunyamurti explains why realization seems nearly impossible in this age—and why devotion, surrender, and selfless action may be the final path to liberation. The choice is clear: remain trapped in illusion, or awaken to the truth of the Self.

How to Regulate a Chaotic Mind

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0600

When we dive all the way into the ultimate essence of the timeless teachings of nonduality, everything dissolves into pure self-luminous Presence. The plane of thought and language is surpassed, along with all projections into the hologram. The Inconceivable is here now.

How to Improve the Quality of Your Time

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0600

Physics has now shown that neither time nor space nor matter is fundamentally real. That leaves only Consciousness as the sole constituent of reality. We must be purged of our belief in the unreal world and of the body ego with which Consciousness has been mistakenly identified. Then the joyful and eternal freedom of our essential nature is revealed with luminous clarity, along with the dropping of illusory boundaries and the vast expansion of our creative intelligence.

Jesus Was a Holy Hologram — A Theory of Early Christians

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0600

We celebrate Easter from the perspective of the sages of the docetic version of Christianity. This leads to the recognition that the whole world is a holographic projection—none of us is really here. The Self transmits the holographic image of a body; and consciousness mistakenly identifies with that form, rather than with the Light and Intelligence projecting all forms in a motion picture epic of Divine Authorship. That epic is rendered into animation by the Goddess and destined to reach its climax with Revelation, Rapture, and Redemption.

Our Collective Excursion in Hell is Just Beginning

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0600

As global instability intensifies, Shunyamurti reveals the deeper spiritual crisis beneath the chaos: the collapse of the ego’s false authority. What appears as geopolitical upheaval mirrors an inner turning point—the exposure of the ego as an illusion that can no longer sustain itself. This teaching explores the decisive moment each soul must face: remain loyal to the false master, or surrender to the Supreme Self. There is no time for delay. The opportunity is immediate and absolute: to step out of illusion, reclaim sovereignty, and awaken to the infinite presence that has always been your true nature.

The Next Phase of the Final War

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0600

As the war accelerates toward its eschatological climax, Shunyamurti reveals the deeper spiritual meaning behind these events—and why the true battlefield is not external, but within. Offering a radical reinterpretation of the “stigmata” as the awakening of heart, mind, and will into Sat-Chit-Ananda, he calls us to transcend fear, surrender the false identity, and realize the infinite consciousness beyond birth and death. This is the moment to step out of the dream and embody the light of the Divine Self. The choice is simple, but absolute: remain in illusion—or awaken into Truth.

Time Is Short to Awaken Before the Collapse

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0600

There is a profound transformation now unfolding in both the world and the human psyche. As the structures of the macrocosmic world continue to fracture at an exponential rate, Shunyamurti explains that the true task is not to react to external chaos but to complete the inner metamorphosis from ego-consciousness to God-Consciousness. By surrendering the illusion of separation and opening the gates of the heart, the soul can awaken to its true nature as pure awareness, love, and light. The time is now for humanity to transcend fear, dissolve the ego’s illusions, and serve as instruments of divine grace in a world desperately in need of Truth, Beauty, and Compassion.

This will be the task and subject of our next retreat: Now or Never! Open the Gates of the Heart! (5-Day Online Intensive Training for the Serious Yogi and Devotee of God Guided by Shunyamurti, April 3 - 7, 2026)

Why Stay Psychologically Crippled?

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0600

The sacred duty of Sat Yogis is to liberate all beings from bondage to the Other, from all karmic debt, and from entanglement in the internalized demands of the superegoic introjection of the Other. The price of freedom is emptiness; but it must be the Ultimate Emptiness, which is revealed after emptying out what is not one’s inalienable nature and essence. This opens the heart and mind to the Fullness, Completion, Glory, and Perfection of the Infinite and Eternal Self of Blissful Light and Power of Immeasurable Intelligence Who is dreaming us all.

From Epstein to the Eschaton

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0600

In this satsang, Shunyamurti explains the deeper spiritual meaning of the global crises unfolding in our time. What appears outwardly as Armageddon is, for the yogi, an inner battle: the destruction of karma, the surrender of the ego, and the restoration of dharma. As the world moves toward the culmination of Kali Yuga, the real task is not to become absorbed in the chaos of the phenomenal plane but to keep the heart on fire with love for God and remain rooted in the Self.

There Are No Limits to the Possible!

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0600

An exploration of the paradoxical paradigm of presence in impermanence (expressed most pithily by the Sixth Patriarch of Chan) leads into a logical analysis of the levels of consciousness, the relationship of the labyrinthine complexity of the ego with the absolute simplicity of the Self, and the lucidity of soul required to sail to the further shore of nonduality.

The Iran War and Its Spiritual Meaning

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0600

In this urgent and sobering teaching, Shunyamurti addresses the accelerating global crisis (escalating war, economic destabilization, and the rising probability of nuclear confrontation) and reveals its deeper spiritual meaning. What appears as geopolitical conflict is also a microcosmic holy war within each of us. The exposure of weakness in global powers mirrors the exposure of weakness in the ego. As external systems destabilize, the fragility of personal identity, false security, and imagined control is likewise revealed. The real holy war must be won in the heart.

The One Concept That Subsumes All Others!

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:00:00 -0600

We gather in satsang to heal the wounded soul trapped in constructs and a frame of reference built from obsolete projections of the past. Those who have heard the call perform the sacred ritual of sacrificing this fragmented and incoherent consciousness for the boundaryless state of silent presence in resonance with the Real.

The Inner Structure of Trauma

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 10:00:00 -0600

Nearly all alive today are massively traumatized. In order to proceed with our advanced practice in aloneness and dealing with separation, we must understand how trauma acts as a catalyst to heal and yet is also the obstacle. Shunyamurti explains its origin, meaning, and structural and dynamic aspects that leave the ego in fear of annihilation. The situation can only be resolved by recognizing how radically we have been cut off from the nature of our Being, remembering the totality of the Self, and returning to our nobility of spirit and real Aryan truths. The soul is saved in surrender to the space of silent awareness, free of ego identification and language. May we know the joy of realization and compensation for the ordeal of this rite of passage into the kingdom of heaven.

The War Between the Unreal and the Real

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:18:51 -0600

We gather for our ritual celebration of Maha Shiva Ratri, the most holy day and symbolic moment of the kalpa. It is the night when the grace of the highest potentiality of consciousness is available to receive if one wants it with all one's heart, mind, and will. Shunyamurti emphasizes the importance of the symbol of the dancing Nataraj and The Forty Verses on Reality by Sri Ramana Maharshi. Though the ego is not willing to surrender its identification with a fictional character, the soul yearns for union with the ultimate Truth, Tat Tvam Asi. Whether one likes it or not, ultimately Thou Art That. If only we use the power of Imagination to know there is no will separate from Shiva to surrender, that is our saving grace.

You Are The Trickster Who Has Tricked Yourself

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:44:24 -0600

The Supreme Trickster turns the One into the Many, then delivers the ultimate treat: returning all to Zero. When your mind has been completely emptied of thought and desire, you will be filled with the Uncreated Light and the Divine Nectar of eternal ecstasy. This is the gift of grace signified by Maha Shiva Ratri.

The Epstein Event: What It Reveals About Reality

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:06:21 -0600

Our souls must understand what the revelation of being ruled by demonic forces is intended by God to teach us. We must not accept the normalization of evil, but neither should we perceive it as outside our own consciousness. The political theater surrounding the scandal of the Epstein files should not obscure the divine imperative with which we are faced as beings dedicated to the service of Supreme Truth, Goodness, and Love.

Spiritual Implications of a World in Crisis

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:18:13 -0600

In this timely teaching, Shunyamurti speaks directly to the escalating global tensions unfolding across nature, geopolitics, and the collective psyche. As environmental upheaval, military confrontation, and systemic instability converge, he frames this moment as a true breakpoint—both for the world and for individual consciousness.

He explains why the ego is reaching its breaking point, why yogis must now move into hyper-drive, and how this convergence marks a decisive moment in the greater theodrama of history. Beyond the visible events lies a deeper, tripartite reality—the sensory, the morphogenic, and the Real—where liberation becomes possible for those willing to undergo ego death and awaken beyond fear.

Why Your Pain Is Actually a Blessing

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:13:53 -0600

For the ego, as Bob Dylan sang, everything is broken at every fractal level. We are here to heal what is broken by releasing seemingly inescapable patterns of suffering that have become frozen in time. Because the ego is only the lowest level of a four-tiered consciousness that has become short-circuited, it is possible to heal. Shunya offers an empirical experiment to shift one's paradigm to be free, to see within one's own consciousness the ego’s unreality, and to keep the soul awakened by not entertaining egoic thoughts and instead remaining turned towards the inner light. It will require recognizing that suffering is a blessing of motivation to return home, to remain vulnerable long enough to receive the grace necessary to alchemically transform one's pain into wisdom. This emptying out and surrender are the only true fulfillment in life and our divine right to leap beyond the ego's event horizon to the Absolute Self.

You Contain the Database of the Cosmos

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 09:01:16 -0600

In this divinely mad satsang, Shunyamurti journeys through his interpretation of the Sanskrit words written in Chapters 14 and 15 of the Ashtavakra Samhita. He clarifies the nuances and idiosyncrasies that are missed by other translators, about becoming established in shunyachitta with an empty and sattvic mind. One must let go of all worries about worldly matters, dissociate from the ego, and have a distaste for objects in order to taste divine presence. The joy of expanding into infinite intelligence, potency, and power is available to all but unimaginable to the ego. The choice is yours. Why not abide in stillness now?

A New Approach to High-Intensity Spiritual Training

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 09:45:02 -0600

Every ego today suffers from an allergy to Truth and Love. If we receive too large a dose of either, the mind becomes inflamed. To overcome this tendency to inflammation, we are offered a radical remedy: high-intensity spiritual practice that neutralizes all our autoimmune reactions. The ten principles of this training program are guaranteed to boggle your mind and free your heart from the constrictions and defensive shell that have kept love out and kept the mind in a miasma of delusion. The paradoxical nature of these principles will completely depotentiate your ego, giving your soul an immediate taste of the eternal delight of ultimate liberation.

Life Is an Ongoing Rite of Passage

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 09:51:01 -0600

The ego structure today is in what Carl Jung called the puer aeternus complex—an unwillingness to grow up and a rejection of the ongoing rites of passage that God offers the soul to complete the coup de grâce needed to let go of its immature relation to reality and obsolete identity. Shunyamurti reads from Chapter 13 of the Ashtavakra Samhita, which comes as close to the ultimate teaching as is possible in written form. The coup de grâce is to give up acceptance, rejection, and the belief that there is a someone to give those up. The only way out is to get to the central nerve of life energy and raise it to receive the full power of presence.

When Every Path Cancels Itself: Dzogchen, Ramana and the End of Seeking

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 10:09:16 -0600

In this teaching, Shunyamurti explores the paradox at the heart of all authentic traditions: Trika’s Netra Tantra calls for “supreme effort,” while other scriptures insist there is no path and no separate one to realize God. Taking us through concepts from Kabbalah, Ramana Maharshi, and Dzogchen, he reveals the synthesis: you are not the seeker in the story but the unmoving screen of pure, total consciousness on which all worlds appear. When this is realized, effort and non-effort collapse into the natural state of the Self.

How to Awaken Beyond Ego and Live as the Infinite Self

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 10:03:39 -0600

This teaching clarifies the three-tiered structure of consciousness: the ego-world, the awakened soul, and the Absolute Sat—the all-containing, changeless presence. Shunyamurti explains how freedom is attained not by improving the ego but by realizing that all levels already coexist within the infinite Self.

The Hidden Symbolism of the Christmas Story

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 08:53:20 -0600

This sacred story of giving birth to God can be understood on many levels. The most important for yogis is the level of nonduality, in which the nativity of the God-Self is understood as your own story of realization of your essential nature. This is accomplished through the symbolic replication of the acts of your purified soul, represented by the Virgin Mother (Shakti) bringing to life through divine love the Advent of the uncreated Supreme Self (as Presence in immediacy), and the ecstatic recognition of the Infinite Light pervading the entire cosmos and appearing as the Self of every being. May the grace that grants you the strength to surrender your will to God bring instant rapture and redemption.

Shunyamurti Reads Chapter 2 of A Bhagavad Gita for the Final Days

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 08:52:48 -0600

In this second reading from A Bhagavad Gita for the Final Days, Shunyamurti unveils why the modern seeker must pass through Dante’s threshold: “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” But hopelessness, as the new Gita reveals, is not despair; it is the moment when the ego finally understands it has no way out . . . and the Self takes over.

A New Bhagavad Gita for a World on the Brink - Shunyamurti Unveils The New Gita

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 11:37:59 -0600

Civilization is on the brink, the ego is in despair, and the old maps no longer work. In this satsang, Shunyamurti unveils A Bhagavad Gita for the Final Days—a newly received “Song of God” that speaks directly to the modern psyche, cutting through denial, confusion, and nihilism to reveal the inner war of the will. Discover how this new Gita can break open the ego shell, ignite the upper death drive, and attune you to the Fundamental Mind in time for the eschaton.

Let Go of the World to Receive Eternal Treasure

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 08:53:29 -0600

In this discourse, Shunyamurti reveals the Eightfold Path of the Netra Tantra—a radical understanding of Ashtanga Yoga. Moving beyond the outer practices of posture and breath, this teaching unveils the ascent of the soul through the divine eye of Shiva toward the throne of light, where all identity dissolves into God-Consciousness.

The Way Out is Through the Doors of Infinite Perception

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 09:39:18 -0600

Free your imagination from the prison of the petty ego. You have been framed. Return to your innocence, the silent presence at the center of pure consciousness, free of concepts, images, and narratives. Be saturated with awesome, ecstatic, infinite light, love, and joyous creative intelligence. God is calling us Home.

Lower the Noise, Listen for the Signal!

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 09:12:12 -0600

Remove the ankle weights of the ego, tear open every Velcro of attachment, and let the primal wound be healed in the stillness of the Heart. Choose the upper death drive now: dissolve the false “I” into the ocean of pure Awareness, and let love strike the xylophone of the chakras until wisdom resounds and freedom becomes your only law. Then transmit that vibration to a world at the end of its story.

The Freedom to Choose the Highest Path

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 06:44:44 -0600

As the structures of the old world dissolve and every illusion collapses into paradox, this teaching unveils the ultimate realization: all that appears is but light projected upon the screen of consciousness. Through vivid metaphors and crystalline insight, the teaching reveals the nested structure of reality—from the ego’s flickering dream to the infinite intelligence that projects it—and the supreme freedom of awakening from identification with the character in the movie of life. Shunyamurti reads chapter eight ("The Yoga of Nonduality”) from A Bhagavad Gita for the Final Days: Here, every paradox resolves itself. Every world arises and dissolves within the eternal Self. Nothing is to be achieved, yet everything is realized.

What Chess Players Do When Trapped in Zugzwang!

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 15:36:14 -0600

The precarious situation the world is now in at every fractal level, from the macro social political level to the micro-emotional, can be considered similar to that of Zugzwang, a position in the game of chess where one must make a move, but every option loses. In this timely and urgent teaching, Shunyamurti reveals that this deadlock is of a divine nature, acting as the final catalyst for the soul to choose to awaken from the illusion of the burden and control of a fictional ego character and return home to the stillness of the Self.

The Practice of Self-Mastery: How to Tame Your Mind

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 10:14:41 -0600

Before one begins the serious practice of self-mastery, one must accurately assess the state of one’s mind and the amount of control one has over it. This will determine the correct approach required. Once the initial attitudinal re-orientations have been made, will power will flow into the practice and resistance will morph into fascination and delight.

The Secret Yoga with the Essence of Death

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:21:02 -0600

As socio-political tensions rise, natural disasters escalate and the world collapses into its dénouement of history. Many countries, if not already at war, are preparing their citizens for war—to be at ground zero. In other words, they are preparing for death. But what is of greatest importance in this moment is to be spiritually prepared for death. Shunyamurti offers some questions for us to ask ourselves in order to process our honesty and intent and in order to directly confront this imminent inevitability. Am I aligned with the will of God? Have I fulfilled the mission I was sent here to achieve—my responsibility to love and serve the light? Ultimately, this alignment can be felt only in the heart and results in a dead mind, an ascension to the fundamental Source of mind for whom all that appears is an illusion. To prepare for death is to prepare for eternal life, to disappear as who one thought one was.

The World Is Nothing but Imagination

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 09:35:25 -0600

The One Self is pure, free, absolute Consciousness—beyond all contexts, paradigms, and frames of reference. Language and thought cannot grasp the unknowable Power that abides as the Self of all beings and pervades the entire cosmos, ordaining all that unfolds in the holographic dream field. This Supreme Presence is intolerable to the ego mind because nonduality is like an acid that will quickly break down the ego complex, dissolve it, and absorb it back into the Self. This is why vampires hide from the Light and cannot stand the sight of a cross. The ego is a vampire feeding on the life blood and energy of the bodily vehicle and the soul within. To be successful, the spiritual process of liberation from ego requires perceiving and overcoming the snare of thought constructs and mental chatter.

How the Bhagavad Gita Can Change Your Life

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 06:04:28 -0600

Shunyamurti reveals why the Bhagavad Gita is a time-released teaching—a terma designed for this very moment at the end of Kali Yuga. We are all Arjuna now, standing on the battlefield of the soul, faced with the choice: surrender the reins to God or remain trapped in the ego’s illusions. In this powerful satsang, Shunyamurti explains Krishna’s first instructions to Arjuna: do not mourn, endure all conditions, discover the indestructible Self, and fight the only battle that matters—the inner war against ignorance and ego.

You Don’t Know Your Real Potential…

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 09:00:54 -0600

The human ego in its current models is a fragmented and internally conflicted operating system. This condition creates affective and cognitive deadlocks, repetitive self-sabotage, delusional projections, and stunted capacity to function as a responsible adult. Spiritual practice must focus on the integration and resolution of contradictory attitudes and drives. Once accomplished, your consciousness can expand to higher levels of intelligence and creative power that can blossom into total freedom and fulfillment.

How the Western Mind Bent the Bhagavad Gita

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 11:51:52 -0600

According to the Jewish tradition, we are in the High Holy Days. According to the news, we are in the lowest unholy days. Both are true. As global tensions escalate, this paradox points directly to the teaching of the Bhagavad Gita: The war to be concerned with is the inner battle between your ego and your soul. The Gita has inspired much of modern Western philosophy—from Schopenhauer and Hegel to Nietzsche and beyond—yet none of those thinkers got the real message being transmitted. Accurate understanding of the Gita’s profound instructions is essential now for physical survival in this time of tribulation and, more importantly, for spiritual salvation.

The 10 Defenses Against Anxiety (and Why They Fail)

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 09:55:41 -0600

In this teaching, Shunyamurti reveals the 10 major defenses the ego uses to escape anxiety. These strategies may seem to offer relief, but ultimately they deepen suffering and block the path to liberation. True freedom comes only when we courageously face anxiety at its root and discover the Self that is beyond fear.

Why Modern Egos Need a Different Medicine

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 08:45:06 -0600

In this satsang, Shunyamurti reflects on why the profound truths of the Ashtavakra Gita so often fail to penetrate the postmodern ego, which forms prematurely as a defense against fear, pain, and abandonment. Drawing on the Sat Yoga Chakra Map, he explains how the first three assemblage points entangle us in security needs, desire, and power struggles—and how the ego’s confusion of love with desire keeps us bound in suffering.

The Secret Nonduality of Energy and Information

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 07:27:35 -0600

After exploring the deep insights in the teaching of the Ashtavakra Gita regarding the way to shift from ego-mind to the infinite intelligence of the Self, Shunyamurti adds another level of subtlety to the method. He explains how the energy of our fundamental nature is converted into information that appears as a holographic continuum of experience. When that information is converted back into the light of pure consciousness, the transcendent Self is realized.

Self-Realization in an Age of Anxiety | Shunyamurti Answers Your Questions

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 07:09:12 -0600

In this special Q&A compilation, Shunyamurti responds to seekers’ heartfelt questions on guilt, shame, dreams, AI, Self-realization, and the paradox of suffering and joy. Each answer reveals how the ego sustains bondage through self-judgment, attachment, and fear, while pointing us back to the freedom of our divine nature. We are sharing this teaching in the lead-up to our online retreat, Live Free of Anxiety (September 5-7, 2025). Join us for this weekend intensive with Shunyamurti and experience the joy of having your own deepest questions answered live.

The Secret Between Every Two Moments

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 06:38:48 -0600

In this teaching, Shunyamurti reveals the hidden structure of consciousness that unfolds in nanoseconds between every two thoughts. He maps seven micro moments—from the instant of naked presence to the reinstallation of ego identity—showing how awareness of these stages gives you the power to shift your trajectory in real time. In the “between,” where thought has not yet fixed who you are or how you see the world, lies your greatest freedom. By remaining in pure presence, you open the door to Infinite Intelligence, creative genius, and your true nature.

Putin, Trump, and the Bhagavad Gita - Is Global War Inevitable?

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 10:00:28 -0600

In this urgent satsang, Shunyamurti shares that he received the message that we are at the moment depicted in the Bhagavad Gita, when Arjuna understands and accepts that he must fight the battle he dreads, knowing it will destroy civilization. Reflecting on the aftermath of the failed Putin–Trump summit in Alaska, in the context of the imminent collapse of Western hegemony, and the fractal nature of reality—meaning that all of us face such a situation in our own lives as well— Shunya explains that the only solution is taking refuge with God. The grace of the Supreme Self alone will enable us to face fearlessly the events to come. Our spiritual duty is to radiate the salvific light of truth, peace, and divine love to all souls in our dying world.

Putin-Trump Summit: Spiritual Warning & Solution

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:35:11 -0600

As Putin and Trump meet in a tense moment of global brinkmanship, Shunyamurti offers a teaching on how to remain unshaken in the face of uncertainty. Drawing from the Ashtavakra Samhita, he explains how to free yourself from anxiety, transcend identification with body and ego, and abide in the constant presence of pure awareness. In a collapsing world, this is the timeless path to inner freedom — beyond fear, beyond reaction, and beyond the reach of external events.

Escape from the Ten Kinds of Bondage You Are In!

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 09:45:35 -0600

The soul must understand the nature of its bondages. Your power will remain limited and your happiness elusive until you overcome these ten forms of psychological dis-ease that the ego is prone to suffering. Sat Yoga is a path to freedom.

The Art of Letting Go

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 11:38:28 -0600

We are living near the end of this age, and our responsibility is to prepare our souls to create a more beautiful, peaceful, awakened culture in the age to come. This requires us to attune to our true essential nature as pure spirit, and to let go of all tendencies of self-deception. This comes down to letting go of the false self entirely. We must open our hearts and minds to our infinite and eternal consciousness. This is the aim of an authentic spiritual path.

Why Be Duped Into Dissatisfaction?

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 09:34:12 -0600

The reading of chapter two of the Ashtavakra Samhita is the basis of this teaching on the joy of Self-Realization. Sustained joy is not possible for the ego, since it projects its own shadow on the world and suffers as a result. But, when it is understood that one is Pure Consciousness—that all is the One Infinite Intelligence and that the world is only a reflection of the Self at play—then divine beauty is directly perceived, unconditional love is felt, and perfection is recognized.

The FINAL STEP to Enlightenment

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 08:08:49 -0600

What is Sat Yoga, truly? In this electrifying teaching, Shunyamurti returns us to the original foundation of all true yogic paths: the complete and instantaneous renunciation of the ego through the love of the infinite Self. This is not a path of gradualism or compromise. It is a radical return to the Real, beyond all illusion, trauma, fear, or thought. True liberation comes not with time, but with unwavering determination, tapas, and surrender. This is the final frontier—the rite of passage into God-consciousness. And the gate is gateless, because you are already That.

How to Win the Video Game of Life

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 10:02:28 -0600

It is easy to understand why the ego mind has no freedom. Neither does it have originality or courage, nor even the ability to love, in the real sense of that word. The secret to leading a fulfilling life is simple: your soul must awaken and extract itself from the limitations of the ego straitjacket. Once free, the soul can easily transform its personal identity to accurately reflect its divine nature of limitless potency. This is the goal of the spiritual quest.

What Happens the Moment the Veil Falls Away

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 10:38:03 -0600

There comes a moment in the life of every sincere seeker of ultimate Truth when the veil of illusion finally falls away. But it requires a lot of preparation. One needs uncommon sense to reason through the barrier of the unreal, and a willingness to dialectically negate one's own desire for the Real when that becomes the new barrier. Then, even that negation must be negated by the immolation of the last trace of a tendency of the mind to produce an egocentric thought.

Is the Empire Now Meeting its Waterloo?

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 12:14:41 -0600

By entering this war, the US is accelerating toward direct conflict with opposing great powers. Gog and Magog may soon enact the prophesied battle of Armageddon. What better time to attain divinization? The secret of receiving the grace of the Rapture is to surrender to the Presence of the Transcendent Absolute God-Self by simply letting go of all else.

Time to Fulfill Your True Promise!

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 08:33:29 -0600

The war in west Asia is a reflection of the war in consciousness that is being played out in every fractal of the whole of the cosmic manifestation. It is the same war that is commemorated in the Bhagavad Gita. The secret instruction to gain victory for the soul over the demonic ego is most clearly delivered in an ancient text called the Ashtavakra Samhita. There are eight major curves on the road to divine liberation. We must steer the mind accurately around each curvature of conscious space.

War! (What Does God Have to Do With it?)

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:11:03 -0600

The world has gone mad. Every kind of war is breaking out, at every level of social organization and individual ego structure. Yet, there is divine order hidden in this utter chaos. It is our spiritual duty to emanate peace and divine love and, amid the exploding bombs, to deliver the healing balm of the Presence of God.

Gunfight at the Ego Corral

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 12:31:23 -0600

We are at the historic moment of showdown at every fractal level of the holographic motion picture show. To win the duel with the ego, the soul must be willing to surrender to the Real Self. But certain preparations must be made to disempower the ego. If one knows the stages of the path, it is easier to navigate through the narrow passage to Freedom.

Prepare for Rising Kundalini!

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 09:16:09 -0600

A divine process is underway, whether an individual recognizes it or not. All that happens is the will of the Infinite Intelligence that is unfolding the cosmic drama. Evil energies are now in the process of destroying themselves, creating conditions for a renaissance of the highest potencies of God-consciousness to emerge and bring a new world into being. All who love God will soon feel their kundalini rising rapidly toward infinity.

The Dream Wanderers Are Returning!

Sat, 31 May 2025 09:35:07 -0600

Once you have broken through the illusion of egocentric perception and recognized the personal identity as fictional, there is no going back to ignorance. Even though the illusory ego will try to fill you with dread as it disintegrates in the full light of Infinite Consciousness, once the traces of ego identity have all been annihilated, the inconceivable power and scope of the Self will be realized as all there ever was or will be.

You Too are Made of Plasma

Sat, 17 May 2025 10:16:37 -0600

The metaphor of plasma brings clarity as to the higher powers of the mind. Once the alchemical process of kundalini cultivation is underway, the energy of consciousness can be modulated to higher frequencies that will come to vibrate through the body and the morphogenic space. This revisioning of the meaning of yoga makes the transcendent heights of Total Presence more immediately accessible.

Why Accept Being Framed?

Sat, 10 May 2025 09:49:02 -0600

Every ego has been framed. Even knowing that though, it continues its self-framing regardless of the suffering that it causes to itself. The ego prefers a dysfunctional identity to none at all. Every authentic spiritual tradition tries to offer a way out, but very few egos are interested.

Neocons, Katechons, and the Incon-ceivable Self

Thu, 08 May 2025 15:27:27 -0600

The unfolding drama in the unreal world is but the rebirth pangs of Cosmic Self-realization. The Eternal Light of God is washing away the last traces of the manifest mandala of divine human history and those of every world system—simply by dissolving the stain of emotionality that hides the Bliss of the Real. Recorded May 7, 2025

The Gates of Hell Are Opening . . . But So Is the Strait Gate to Heaven

Sun, 04 May 2025 06:38:12 -0600

The world situation is dire. The US economy is in its death throes. Europe is also coming apart. Store shelves will soon be empty. War is threatened or has already erupted in every region. And the same is happening in the microcosm of nearly every ego. Chaos is accelerating to final destruction. Yet this is a blessing, a merciful quick end to a dying world. The Light of God is becoming more palpable as well, at least to those souls who have faith in and love for the Supreme Lord. We have the inherent right to choose redemption while still alive. Grace is given to all whose hearts are open.

God and Human Merge at the Time of Your Crucifixion - Special Shunyamurti Good Friday Teaching

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 10:37:41 -0600

What kind of world are we in? Could it be a fiction? How would that affect your ego’s crucifixion? And if the world is suddenly perceived as filled with zombies, how does the heart react? Does ego death seem more appealing? If so, we have a formula to help you disappear.

The Man Who Never Left Deep Sleep - Shunyamurti Answers Your Questions

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 10:59:33 -0600

The role of narcolepsy—or we could call it “sleeping avatar” syndrome—in the life of Sri Ramana and (more generally) in the attainment of samadhi, is explored in this off-the-cuff digression. We also gain insight into the ways that destiny is inscribed in the prologue to our personal stories.

Tariffs and the Trade War: The Deeper Implications

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:24:53 -0600

Shunyamurti explains the psychological and spiritual meaning and implications of the erratic Trump policies, as well the geopolitical effects of the rising tensions and conflicts in this accelerating phase shift that is now underway in the world—and replicated at every fractal level of reality. It is a true synchronicity that all this is unfolding just as we enter the Passover-Easter Holy Week.

We Are Near the End of the Calm Before the Storm

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 11:07:20 -0600

This may be the last moment of calm to complete the rite of passage beyond the ego and its illusions and realize the deathless Self—before the storm of global conflict reaches its climactic phase. You may need to change your paradigm of reality to see our situation clearly in the context of total consciousness—to be able to do what is necessary to be free of a limiting identity.

The Geopolitics of Consciousness ~ Special Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 08:22:24 -0600

Reality is being destabilized at every fractal level of manifestation. It may be most obvious at the geopolitical level. But it is happening at every level, in every institution, every relationship, and every personal psyche. One can make use of this situation by appreciating that it is loosening the grip of identifications and revealing what had been subconscious shadow thoughts and emotions, enabling one to alchemically transform that prima materia into pure Presence. The madness of language itself, the jouissance of the signifier, is the last vortex of resistance.

The Cosmic Cinema of Sacrifice is Nearing the Climax ~ Shunyamurti Anarchapulco Talk 2025 Clip

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 09:51:13 -0600

This talk was given as part of AscenDANCE, Anarchopulcho conference 2025. Get the lifetime replay of the entire conference here: https://anarchapulco.com/ascendance/

Description: The ancient mystics held these truths to be self-evident: The world has only relative reality. The Ground of our Being is an Inconceivable Intelligence. We are all artifacts of the imagination of that One Infinite Self. It is the will of that all-powerful Mind that the world must be sacrificed—and a new Creation, inhabited by beings filled with love, harmony, joy, and wisdom then will be made manifest.

Would You Like Some Rapture With Your Eschaton? Anarchapulco Talk 2025 Clip

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 09:51:41 -0600

This talk was given as part of AscenDANCE, Anarchopulcho conference 2025. Get the lifetime replay of the entire conference here: https://anarchapulco.com/ascendance/

As we witness the daily accelerating collapse of the global social order, and we see how the ruling institutions are run by psychopaths driving us directly to the Omega Point, to respond accurately requires a paradigm shift that reveals the blessings hidden behind the ominous dark clouds. But it takes courage to face the truth.

How to Get Reframed and Deframed - Satyoga

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:02:08 -0600

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If you are stuck in a limited identity as an ego, then you have been framed—victimized by a family system working for the larger social order to keep you under their control. You probably are burdened by a guilt complex even though you are still innocent, and further agitated by anger at the situation, and projecting the same forces into your current environment and relationships. So, the therapeutic technique of reframing is urgent. But the deeper work is to free your Self of all frames of reference and return to Your original infinite nature. This is the focus of our next online retreat.

Your Heroic Potential Will Soon Be Activated - Satyoga

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:48:41 -0600

Life in this dreamfield is becoming impossible. It is already surreal, and showing signs of suicidal madness. When the dream dies, the souls will all awaken from the illusion of lack and lostness to the light of eternal presence, the fulfillment of desire. Each has the freedom to awaken at any moment, simply by opening the heart to the fullness of love.

Fictional Beings Are All in Search of Their Author

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 10:18:21 -0600

To become who you really are, you must drop the one you think you are and abide in not-knowing, in radically accepting that nothing is known at all. Nothing can be figured out by thinking. When every fiction has fallen away, the Absolute Real is revealed. Life was only ever about this.

How Will You Resolve Your Inner Conflicts?

Sat, 08 Mar 2025 08:34:55 -0600

In this discourse on deliverance from desire and dharma, the force vectors of suffering are deconstructed so that the desperation and depression of the lacking ego can be put to permanent rest. A simple error of logic knots Eros to Thanatos in the deflated heart.

You Can’t Get Illumination—You Are That!

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 09:56:54 -0600

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You have to grok this paradox: You must want Illumination, but wanting will never reach it. The wanting must morph into surrender. Surrender even wanting. More than that, surrender the thought that there is anyone separate from God who must surrender. When there is no I-thought and no sense of Other or world—as in deep sleep but fully awake—the Self is realized and nothing else remains, or ever was.

Celebrate the Dawn of Shiva’s Light! Special Teaching for Maha Shiva Ratri

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 10:55:25 -0600

The Light of God is always shining. But the ego mind has turned away from the Source and is lost in the darkness of delusion. This is the moment that the Supreme Self has chosen to return, bringing all souls back to the eternal stillness and peace of the Infinite Merciful Heart of the Real. For the ego, this will seem like world destruction, while for the illumined souls, this is the moment of redemption. The end is also the new beginning. The Kingdom of Heaven awaits those who surrender all to the Lord in humble adoration. Make use of this window of greatest opportunity while it is open. In this teaching, the seven secret teachings of Shiva are explained in depth. These keys will unlock the intellect’s ability to transcend the false self-identity and rise as soul-consciousness into the blissful unmanifest Divine Presence.

Accurate Knowledge Removes All Fear and Suffering

Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:26:52 -0600

Once it is recognized that the apparent world is only the mind engaged in dreaming, then the nonduality of consciousness and its contents can be understood and its vast implications can be unfolded. But it can take some time to digest and integrate all the binaries (the polarities, like good and evil, immanent and transcendent) in order to gain accurate knowledge that brings freedom from suffering—even the awareness that there is no suffering, since the world and the whole seeming multiplicity of sentient inhabitants are unreal. The sticking point is the resistance to recognizing that you, as a being in the world, are also unreal. The delusional mental apparatus must be terminated.

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The Natural Sobriety of Ecstasy

Sat, 15 Feb 2025 08:34:18 -0600

In this teaching Shunyamurti is reading from The Vajra Essence, Düdjom Lingpa’s Visions of The Great Perfection, Volume 3, Foreword by Sogyal Rinpoche, Translated by B. Alan Wallace, Edited by Dion Blundell

Description: The final period of every cycle of time is one of spiritual exhaustion, the soul’s exile from the Light of God, the ego’s nihilistic cynicism combined with narcissistic hubris, and the ominous approach of world destruction. We have arrived at that time. Fortunately, every spiritual tradition declares that such a hell realm is actually the most auspicious moment of all, for that is when the Inner Light returns—first only for a few—but then more and more souls become illumined. This is the true Festival of Lights. It is happening.

The Heart Must Be the Agent of Reason

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 14:50:35 -0600

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Description: Only once the heart is fully open and integrated with the intellect will the nondual wisdom accurately emerge and function with all its potency in the morphogenic field. This grace is always accessible if one is willing to use one’s margin of free will to surrender to the Absolute.

Here’s a “Get Out of Jail” Card for your Soul - Shunyamurti Invites You to the Next Online Retreat

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 08:55:00 -0600

In the upcoming retreat on "The Secret of Instant Illumination," you will come to understand how “they” are boiling our souls like frogs in a pot. A time will come when denial is no longer possible—when events become too hot to endure. The good news is that, even when strength is lacking to leap out of the matrix, there is a way to attain instant liberation. This secret “Get Out of Jail” card will be transmitted to you to use when needed.

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We Are Reaping the Whirlwind: Prepare!

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 11:50:50 -0600

The whirlwind of accelerating catastrophic change is wreaking havoc on the world, collapsing whole nations and blowing apart all the social structures and safety nets that we took for granted. But all this is a blessing if we choose to take refuge with the One Unchanging Self. Leave impermanence behind and connect with the Supreme Intelligence directing all this, morphing the world from a hell realm into a paradise for divine, luminous beings. The best job available now is to work for the Creator.

How Symbolic Intelligence Can Awaken Us to the Real

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:22:40 -0600

The ego-mind is conditioned and controlled by its habitual drives and thought patterns that prevent self-transformation. But through accurate analysis and understanding that arises from archetypal symbolic wisdom, one can unveil the profound Presence of God obscured by the ego’s incoherence.

The Seven Levels of Love ~ Shunyamurti Retreat Teaching

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 09:52:28 -0600

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Description: As we grow psychologically and spiritually, our understanding and appreciation of love evolve into more altruistic modes of expression and unconditional inclusion, until infinite love is attained. This is the glory of divinization and the completion of our pilgrimage through many lives to the real essence of who we are.

Ego Particles are Particularly Prickly

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 08:28:15 -0600

The best alternative to living in a society of narcissistic egos is to move into nonduality. There is, after all, only one Real Self. Why be crowded when you can enjoy infinite spaciousness?

Good and Evil are Identical Twins - Sat Yoga Classic Teaching

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 09:45:19 -0600

Mastery of our two inherent powers, or siddhis, of shining with supernal light and knowing through reflective awareness is the key to redemption in this auspicious time when God is euthanizing a world in its terminal phase of degradation, suffering, and madness. We must come to accept the outrageous nonduality of good and evil. That may be the most difficult challenge.

Only Love Can Break our Chains

Sat, 28 Dec 2024 10:16:07 -0600

Every moment is priceless as the world hurtles toward the Eschaton. The highest priority of yogis must now be such intense and one-pointed adoration of the Supreme Self that we earn the grace of liberation from our bondages to the illusory ego and its attachments. It is now or never.

May the God-Self Be Born in the Manger of Your Mind ~ Shunyamurti Christmas Teaching

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 11:04:31 -0600

The holy night of Christmas is a mythical representation of your own metamorphosis from human to divine. When the grace of silence descends upon the mind, the heart will blossom in overwhelming love of God and the sacred incarnation will occur.

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Shiva and Shakti Invite You on a Divine Adventure! Brin in the New Year with Shunyamurti

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 08:55:00 -0600

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Description: The Eschaton is a new beginning. A heavenly world is being prepared for those souls with the courage to attain the deathless consciousness that is revealed once the false ego has been jettisoned. The cosmos is a dream in the Mind of Shakti, the energy of the God-Self. Now, She is ending this dream that has become a nightmare and returning to Shiva, the unmanifest Supreme Intelligence. Then, in joyous union, Shiva and Shakti will dream a wondrous new adventure, a magical Golden Age inhabited by gods and goddesses with astonishing powers beyond our current imagination. Your passport to that miraculous realm is the Light of Grace you will receive in the instant of Self-realization. This is the focus of our upcoming retreat.

The Great Task is Learning to Abide in Stillness

Sat, 14 Dec 2024 07:11:28 -0600

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Description: Learn to listen with the third ear to the Voice of Silence within. Only then can the mind grok the awesome truth that you are consciousness that has never been born and will never die. But the mental program of the ego must be eliminated to sustain the attunement to the Real. This teaching is exemplified in the fundamental tantra of the Dzogchen lineage.

Don’t Blame God for Your Karma!

Sat, 07 Dec 2024 09:31:15 -0600

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Description: A vampire is draining your life energy, dumbing you down, and keeping you in a state of internal oppression projected as an external world. The vampire is your ego. It produces incoherent and delusional attitudes that keep one paralyzed in the holographic nightmare. There is only one way to defeat a vampire.

Love Creates, Love Destroys, Love Has the Last Laugh

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:24:47 -0600

Partial love is the cause of evil. Total love brings salvation. But there is no escape from love. The end of the world is love’s last laugh. But since love is eternal, the end is always a new beginning. Don’t you love it?

The Paradox of Impermanence

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 09:48:27 -0600

The Yogacara school of Buddhism asserts that we all have three natures. The first is imaginary, made up of projections of the ego. The second is other-dependent, which is equally unreal—but focused on the superego and its appendage, the external Other. Fortunately, we also have a third nature, and this is our sovereign freedom. This state of Self-realization is beyond duality and intellectual conception.

The Icon’s Secret Code Describes the Way to Liberation - Classic Shunyamurti Teaching

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 09:24:05 -0600

The Immanent-Transcendent Real can be recognized and attained through the help of symbols. The traditional iconography related to the most ancient portrayals of the Supreme Beingness in the form of Shiva—whether as lingam, as yogi, or as the Lord of Dance. Recorded on the evening of Thursday, August 13, 2009.

Do You See Your Destiny Ahead?

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 08:14:04 -0600

It is crucial to have a conversation with your future Death while you are still alive. Only once you are at peace with Death can you live a truly fulfilling life. What happens when you let go of identification with the body is then explained, revealing important esoteric information.

Many Problems, One Solution - Shunyamurti Questions and Answers

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 07:57:29 -0600

In this selection of recent questions asked in satsangs, every ego’s doubts, confusions, agonies, and theoretical speculations orbit around the same illusory premise that the ego mind’s ontological status is real and has a grasp of the true nature of reality, rather than emerging as a bubble monad entranced in a dream. The solution is always to awaken and pop the bubble.

Overcome All Confusion ~ Shunyamurti Questions and Answers

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 10:01:16 -0600

The application of reason and Self-enquiry will cut through all confusion about the nature of reality and unveil the truth of the omnipresent power of the God-Self and the fact of nonduality. One will be moved spontaneously to serve God by performing good works and accumulating merit that nullifies the tendencies to egocentric behavior and thus completes the process of atonement leading to attunement and re-absorption in the great bliss of the zero point of the Supreme Real.

An Important Revelation

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 09:36:20 -0600

We read and reflect upon a teaching poem written ten centuries ago by the great Kashmiri sage Sri Abhinavagupta reveals the functions of God-Consciousness in these final days of this holographic presentation we call the world. Even more importantly, the difficulties of spiritual seekers are explained, as well as the way out of the illusion of individual existence.

Our Holographic Matrix is a Mathematical Equation

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 08:59:11 -0600

Manifest reality can be perceived through the language of words, illuminating the symbolic meaningfulness and aesthetic qualities of its subtle spiritual nature. But the world can also be translated into the language of number. In the last ten centuries, human consciousness has become increasingly mathematized. Capitalism is all about quantity: how much is something worth, how many are available, what will be the amount of return on my investment, how large will be my profits in the coming year, etc. Mathematics is the main instrument of social control, military power, and economic policy. Without higher mathematics, there could be no weapons of mass destruction, no electric grid, no digital surveillance, no nanotechnology for biowarfare, no geoengineering, and no agents operating with artificial intelligence. The Word creates, Number destroys. Mathematics has no meaning, no heart, no mercy. We have all become mere numbers in the social order, dehumanized and devalued as useless eaters. But there is a third language of God: the language of Silence. Word creates, Number kills, but Silence saves. To save our souls, let us learn to commune with God in Silence.

Your Soul Will Shed its Ego Skin

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 09:55:32 -0600

Consciousness must go through the gateway of language without getting caught on the barbed wire of beliefs or paralyzed by paradox. To reach the Supreme Real, our attention must abandon its identifications with name and form and its attachments to the imaginary and the symbolic. To attain nonduality, the ego and its inherent fear of aloneness must be shed. To reach the Infinite, all concepts produced by the finite mind in its longing for certainty must also be dropped. Only in total Emptiness and surrender will the grace of God be granted.

We’re Actors in Paradise Lost

Sat, 26 Oct 2024 12:55:50 -0600

The ego suffers from nostalgia for the lost pseudo-paradise of the womb and the adoring mother at birth. The soul suffers from gnostalgia for the lost ecstasy in the Heart of God. The God-Self laughs, as nothing real was ever lost.

All Fear is Based on Illusion

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 08:50:48 -0600

The ego is the shadow of fear that haunts our lives and creates our suffering, increased by the ego’s addition of the compensatory defenses of anger, envy, hatred, avoidance, and other emotional tendencies that produce unhappiness. Inner work culminates in the recognition that the ego is unreal and obsolete as an operating system. Consciousness is then free to realize its unborn, formless, loving, and infinite nature.

Don’t Get Caught in the Collective Crack-Up!

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 09:15:11 -0600

Everyone is cracking up and going mad before our eyes—including the ego behind our eyes. If you do not want to be flooded with anxiety and dread, as you witness politicians and whole nations act insanely, and as loved ones are overcome with grief and fear, and your own mind plays tricks on you, the only power that can extricate you from this fragmenting matrix is inner silence, pure awareness free of thoughts, images, and affects. Meditating in the early morning hours is the best practice to attain salvation.

The Radical Shift from Delusion to the Real

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 09:59:08 -0600

The true Self has nondual vision—perceiving the unity of samsara and nirvana, immanence and transcendence, form and emptiness. Once the split mind of the false ego has gained the courage to withdraw into stillness, the One Light is perceived within and in the many outer forms. The supreme will and intelligence who is dreaming this apparent world—your infinite Self—is now bringing a merciful end to the delusional hell realm that it has become, and will then dream a heavenly world to replace it. In the world to come, all will abide in our divine nature.

How to Read a Text on Enlightenment - Shunyamurti Book Group Teaching

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 07:22:08 -0600

In this opening class on the analysis of a Buddhist book of poems on the attainment of enlightenment, we learn to focus on the unspoken implications of the text, to unravel metaphors, and to perceive contradictions and points of incoherence.

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Choose the Highest Wavelength!

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 06:10:06 -0600

The different wavelengths of the mind transmit a wide spectrum of levels of consciousness and thus of happiness and freedom. You can change the station you are currently attuned to, and that will change your life. The sky is the limit of how high you can choose to fly into the Infinite Intelligence of the all-encompassing Self.

The Secret of the World’s Self-Destruction

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 09:27:31 -0600

As we approach the Omega Point, destructive tendencies are increasing until they explode in total global war as well as massive upheavals of Nature, bringing this world cycle to a close. Before that, we have the opportunity to resonate with the highest wavelength of absolute consciousness and be absorbed into the deathless rapture of the Infinite Blissful Self. Consider this a test of how you deploy your inner freedom now, in the very short time that remains.

Karma is God’s Way of Getting Our Attention

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:57:16 -0600

We are constantly receiving messages from God via the world, via dreams, and via meditative attention to our Being. If we modify our thinking and our plans in accord with the information that comes through synchronicities, and if we resonate with the vibrational frequency of the Supreme Real, karma drops away in nonduality.

The Power of Grace is Here Now

Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:23:02 -0600

We are acrobats of the Spirit! Our final and greatest performance is to transform from human to divine, from bodily beings in a material world to wondrous formless Presence in a Field of Supernal Light. Now is the moment for our latent powers to awaken!

Are You Dreaming? Or Being Dreamed? Or Both?

Sat, 07 Sep 2024 08:00:56 -0600

You may think you are living in an existent world, but all is the imagination of an infinite intelligence. Your ego may believe it is in control, but that is only God’s joke. However, after the ego illusion drops away, You will realize You are the Joker.

The Secret to Attaining Perfection

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 10:10:00 -0600

You are on a dream journey from the Self to the Self. The journey is undertaken by the Self, through the valley of forgetfulness and apparent imperfection and suffering, in order to transform experience into wisdom and the power to awaken. That journey enables you to joyously regain the awesome splendor of the Infinite Light and Blissful Intelligence of the Self as the product of your own work of art.

The Yoga of Total Escalation Dominance

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 11:29:27 -0600

Only the intensity of constant tapas, the white heat of the Fire of Yoga, brings the ecstasy of sahaja samadhi—and the power to overcome all obstacles. We must be victorious over the escalating chaos, depravity, and destruction that are laying waste our once unspoiled world. The purification of consciousness is the only means to dominate the death drive—and dream a new world into Being.

Timely Questions, Timeless Answers - Shunyamurti Answers Your Questions

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 16:54:07 -0600

A potpourri of questions (and sometimes strange or shocking answers) on a variety of subjects related to the contemplative life is shared in this small harvest of crazy wisdom transmitted by Shunyamurti.

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Perfection Includes Ignorance and Delusion

Sat, 24 Aug 2024 11:12:20 -0600

To fully accept the perfection of all that seems to arise and occur in the world, because of recognition that all is the will of God, Whose wisdom and benevolence is infinite, is the ultimate test of faith. Only with complete authentic surrender to that Absolute Goodness of the Real will the heart open to unconditional love. And this is the portal to eternal bliss.

Victory is Loss of Ego - Shunyamurti Answers Your Questions

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 08:57:48 -0600

Fasting from the consumption of ego thoughts, whether they arise from within or without, leads to the full emergence of the infinite Self as the true essence and nature of consciousness. A bit of will power is required. And that, in turn, is the result of grace.

St. Isaac and the Godly Glory of Stillness - Shunyamurti Reads the Sages

Sat, 10 Aug 2024 12:41:14 -0600

An extensive reading of the wisdom writings of St. Isaac of Syria reveals the congruence of Christian mystical teachings with those of Buddhism, Advaita, and nondual Shaivism. The goal of meditation is unwavering stillness of mind. The Zero Point is coextensive with infinity and filled with supernal light, power, awestruck wonder, and blissful union with the Absolute.

The Secret of Freedom

Sat, 03 Aug 2024 07:36:04 -0600

Do you really grok that the world is a dream? But who is the Dreamer? Are you not both? But since the dream is only the mind of the Dreamer, are not the two really one? And when the Dreamer stops dreaming, What abides?

Let Us Lead All Souls to the Light

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 11:23:53 -0600

Nothing could be easier than realization of the Self. The only obstacle is the narrative of the fictional ego, that has no interest in the discovery of its unreal nature—or in meeting its Dreamer—since the pseudo-self will die instantly in that encounter. But when you are weary enough of the burdens carried by the conditioned persona and long to be free—and you wholeheartedly make the decision to silence the ego’s mental chatter forever—the eternal Essence of your Being will shine with such power that the limited mind will be dissolved in the Infinite. Automatically, you will become a beacon that lights the way for all seekers of the Real.

The Heart Must Have a Single Yearning

Sat, 27 Jul 2024 09:53:00 -0600

Description: If you wholeheartedly yearn for God, or Self, or Infinite Consciousness—and have no other conflicting desires—then the path is easy and effortless. Simply attune to the Source of Presence.

Don’t Underestimate the Power of Para Shakti ~ Shunyamurti Retreat Teaching

Sat, 20 Jul 2024 08:09:33 -0600

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Description: Self-decapitation is the first step on the path. But chopping off the ego mind, though necessary, is not sufficient. If you stop there, you may be lost in emptiness. By adoring Para Shakti, the World Mother, the Mind underlying all appearance, you will be recapitated with a divine intelligence. Then you will be free from the phenomenal plane, recognizing it as a mirror image of your dreaming mind.

Prepare for the Tsunami! ~ Shunyamurti Teaching

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 10:29:10 -0600

We are in an unprecedented low tide of life’s ocean. Destructive forces are dominant. Reason has nearly disappeared. Law is a joke. Love is a myth. The meaning is a mystery. There is nothing to do but return to the Real, the Source of a new High Dreamtide.

All Will Soon Experience the Death of Death - Shunyamurti Invites You to the Next Online Retreat

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:40:20 -0600

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We are fast approaching the paradoxical culmination of history. This will unfold as the nonduality of destruction and salvation. God’s plan includes the transmission of divinizing shakti and the sacred anointment with the intoxicating nectar of infinite wisdom of those souls who are faithfully serving the Supreme Self by detaching from the unreal and abiding in the Real. You are invited to participate in our upcoming retreat in which the final secrets will be shared and your consciousness will be prepared for your ultimate apotheosis.

The One Prerequisite for Union With the Absolute - Shunyamurti Early Morning Meditation Teaching

Sat, 22 Jun 2024 09:20:25 -0600

To be enraptured by the inconceivable beauty of the unmanifest Self, one must cut all clinging to identification with the bodily character one is playing in the holographic dream theater. Disinterest and dispassion for the fate of the icon will open the third eye that can then gaze adoringly at the infinite luminous glory of God-consciousness—and be filled with that splendor and majestic power.

The Perfect Transparency of the Witness - Questions and Answers

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:48:36 -0600

When thoughts disappear through one-pointed focus on the inner light, the attention is absorbed into the ecstatic vibratory energy field of pure awareness, and the subjective sense dissolves into the object and becomes the bliss of liberation. Total surrender of all narratives is required to sustain that beatific state.

The World Will Soon Die—But the Self is Deathless ~ Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 15 Jun 2024 07:33:18 -0600

Fewer can remain in denial with every day that passes, as time accelerates toward the Eschaton. All systems are breaking down. The entire suffering hell ream of the world will soon undergo euthanasia, and all will return to the Light of God. Let us voluntarily surrender our ego identity programs, so that we can be fully saturated by the blissful luminosity of the Supreme Self—and leave this video game victorious!

The Ego is a Self-Playing Game - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 08 Jun 2024 10:55:46 -0600

Psychoanalysis was developed by a neurotic ego and designed to enable other neurotic egos to function more productively despite their inherent internal conflicts. But psychosis was another matter. It is a condition that could not be fully theorized or manipulated by psychoanalytic technique, and so the bizarre mode of suffering of a psychotic person was repressed to justify its limited focus and non-existent success rate.

God is Transgender: Both Shiva and Shakti - Shunyamurti Retreat Teaching

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 10:09:07 -0600

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Description: God’s secret, that the ego cannot grasp, is that the unmanifest potency (the Supreme Lord) emanates the manifest world—the form of the Goddess—within unmanifest Mind. The dream is not other than the mind of the dreamer. The dream is a dance of duality in all its possible expressions. The phenomenal plane is also the noumenal: samsara is nirvana. One must not take priority over the other, since they are the same.

Recover the Innocence of Love ~ Shunyamurti Questions & Answers

Tue, 21 May 2024 09:49:53 -0600

Our inherent nature is pure love. This divine Eros manifests as love of Beauty, love of Goodness, love of Truth, and love of the Infinite Mystery of the God-Self. But to return to the innocence of divine love, we must transcend the ego’s demonic love of money, fame, domination, and self-deception. Only once our ego defenses have been demolished through surrender of weaponized thought, can the Heart open to the flood of divine love that has been dammed up within.

Conflict and Convergence Are Not Two ~ Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 18 May 2024 10:20:29 -0600

On a single day, various religions celebrate symbolically congruent holidays, but the names and myths obscure the unity of meaning behind the signifiers of difference. Yet, the pilgrims who take their destination seriously as an inner state of Being come to appreciate the divine humor of the illusory projection that seems to separate the many from the One.

Eliminate Ego First - Shunyamurti Speaks about Self-Mastery

Thu, 16 May 2024 12:12:08 -0600

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The age-old problem that must be faced by adept yogis is how to deal with paranormal abilities, known as siddhis, that often appear unbidden, or can be deliberately developed, as a result of the increase in their power of concentration, intensity of intention, and strength of will. One must not allow any egoic desire for, or attachment to, such powers to arise. The price would be loss of the prize of liberation from the wheel of karma. Possessing siddhis would then amount only to vanity. But if one’s siddhis are surrendered to the will of God and employed only in divine service, if so ordained, then they can heighten the faith of other seekers.

The Catch-22 That Catches Every Soul ~ Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 11 May 2024 08:49:42 -0600

Has your consciousness been hooked like a fish by the illusory lure of desire, penetrated by the point of fear, and trapped by the barb of belief in the ego’s reality? If you have arrived at such a rebarbative condition of pseudo-existence, then it may be time to start practicing a form of yoga that will release you from the delusional capture in this dream field. But be prepared to face the truth that you have been caught by your Self, and only your Self can release you.

How to Achieve Self-Mastery - Shunyamurti Invites You to the Next Online Retreat

Thu, 09 May 2024 11:03:59 -0600

We are given a sneak preview of the next online retreat/seminar—The Practice of Self-Mastery—to be taught by Shunyamurti. We learn here the three essential aspects of practice, which involve cognitive understanding of the accurate paradigm of reality, the devotional love of the Supreme Self, and the attunement to the live vibrational frequency which carries the extreme (and ecstatic) intensity of the Absolute Presence. This advanced teaching event is designed to enable seekers to be ready to cope with the chaos that is rising rapidly throughout the world, as this dark age of demonic technological domination reaches its climax.

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Know Your Enemy - Shunyamurti Questions and Answers

Tue, 07 May 2024 09:21:07 -0600

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When you find yourself in hand-to-hand combat with Evil that you realize has possessed a part of your consciousness, humility and surrender to God are essential to receive the power to gain victory. Never underestimate the ability of your own dark side to deceive you by projecting evil on others. Do not allow the ego to succeed in impersonating your Real Self. You have given the ego its power, and you are free to take it back.

Regain Your Sovereignty in the Supreme Abode

Sat, 04 May 2024 11:39:41 -0600

One Supreme Intelligence governs all the fractal levels of reality and all the nodes of limited consciousness that arise in them. Through clear understanding and accurate meditation, the attention can attain its original abode in the Source Point of all manifestation. The One Self is the puppet master, pulling all the strings that control the fate of the simulation

How the Mind Censors the Soul - Shunyamurti Questions & Answers

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 11:19:37 -0600

The ego mind mistakes mental representations for the Real. The ego also excels at forgetting its resolutions and losing its clarity at key moments in which a decisive shift in the attitude could produce a change in the altitude of consciousness and give it a higher degree of freedom and power. The mental muscle is insufficient for the job. Only absorption of the sense of I into the infinite field of presence will avail.

Suspend Your Rejection of the Real - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 27 Apr 2024 12:44:33 -0600

Once humans collectively bought into the scientistic paradigm of mere physicalism, it was inevitable that all would be influenced as well by the nihilistic creed that God is dead. However, that news was exaggerated. All that died was the soul’s connection to the light and wisdom of the Supreme Self. Now, it is urgent to shift from deicide to egocide, to attune to the vibrational frequency of Pure Presence, and to become free of all delusions.

You Shall Find Only What You Want - Shunyamurti Teaching

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 10:57:09 -0600

The human ego, in its postmodern end-of-kali-yuga form, is obsessed with its bodily form and its self-definition. It desperately needs to create a defined personality with fixed views and prejudice against other paradigms of reality, since otherwise it cannot hold on to the feeling that it exists. The ego’s lack of existence thus is repressed and over that black hole is projected the image of a self-fashioned fictional entity that believes it is real. The entity likewise constructs an unreal world on which it projects its many dissociated fragments with their desires, plus its shadow drives, foreclosed wisdom, and objects of both desire and fear. To awaken from this self-created hell realm, the consciousness must release its clinging to conceptualizations, including that of the imagined ego.

The Secret of the Activation of the Power of Grace ~ Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 20 Apr 2024 09:36:50 -0600

The power to overcome the entropic fragmenting and psychopathic decomposition of the ego complex that may be the operating system determining your subjective experience is not in your control. Therefore, the intervention of grace by an act of the higher intelligence to whom I owe my existence is necessary. But I must activate that power of gracious redemption from my hell realm. And that will require a genuine surrender.

How to Turn Samsara into Nirvana ~ Shunyamurti Questions and Answers

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 10:25:16 -0600

You are in nonduality right now, but your mental activity obscures the Real. To return to your original and eternal Buddha Nature and God-Self, you must only become fully present—by stopping the thought stream and staying as pure awareness. Then, you will begin to understand the whole river of time and all the lives of high adventure in divinized consciousness of your once and future Self.

Truth and Beauty: The Sad Saga of a Love Affair

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 08:31:56 -0600

Good and evil are the children of a divorced couple. Once Truth and Beauty were in blissful marital union, but the relationship turned sour. Truth left Her for Power. She became ugly. He lived a lie. Their kids are now fighting. Our world is the consequence. Neither Truth nor Beauty is happy. The good news is that they are now working with a couples counselor.

Make No Mistake: There Are No Mistakes! Shunyamurti Question & Answer

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 09:22:44 -0600

We are to learn from every event—so there is no such thing as a mistake. But yogis especially must learn constantly from the Inner Source, as well as from karma, dreams, physical symptoms, synchronicities, books and digital media—we must learn to stay accurately in line with the Dao, with the will of God, with the call of the Heart. At this moment, negative events are happening for everyone nearly all the time. Dark forces are dominant (even in our own egos), but even the shadow powers are feeling the effects of the law of karma. They, too, exist to motivate us to return to God-consciousness. We must graciously accept our karma with detachment and faith, and keep aligned with divine love and forgiveness. All is perfect.

Anything Could Happen During this Solar Eclipse! - Bonus Shunyamurti Teaching

Sun, 07 Apr 2024 09:59:23 -0600

It may be a useful exercise to entertain a few wild speculations about what could happen during the imminent solar eclipse. There is enough circumstantial evidence that strange plots are afoot to justify a warning to the wise: be prepared for anything. And since we are now in an unprecedented historic moment, on the brink of the end of the age, Pandora’s box has been opened, and all the demons have been unleashed. It is urgent to attune to the Supreme Presence, and the attainment of Liberation.

The Higher Levels of the Self

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:59:49 -0600

There are many levels to the I. Life gives us the opportunity to know the Absolute Self, the Self of uncanny wisdom and joyous rapport with the will of God, the Self of luminous clarity regarding the events on the phenomenal plane, and the Self of pure sense, of innocent existence in a living world. All these are integrated into the Whole as uncreated nonduality.

Free Yourself from Delusions and Limitations

Sat, 30 Mar 2024 10:51:28 -0600

Consciousness has fallen into two correlative sets of delusions. The first is the delusion of false identity and its sequelae. This triggers the second set of delusions, those that create a false limitation of our intelligence, power, freedom, creativity, and time. We have a responsibility to overcome these false beliefs. Our primary tools in that project are faith, love, reason, and steadfast determination to realize the ultimate Truth.

The Causes and Effects of Desire ~ Shunyamurti Answers Your Questions

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 09:26:44 -0600

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The ego is concerned solely with the human level of relationality based on lack, need, rivalry, and resentment. This leads to the karma of abandonment, loneliness, and loss of sovereignty. If the ego is still sattvic and with noble traits, karma in Kali Yuga must involve betrayal, despair, and crucifixion. But this awakens the soul again to its divine nature and the illusion of having been forsaken is overcome. The release from the delusion of duality brings the bliss of eternal rest.

Free Yourself from Delusions and Limitations - Shunyamurti Nectar Hour Teaching

Sat, 23 Mar 2024 07:59:22 -0600

The Rebirth of Divine Eros Will Transform the World - Shunyamurti Early Morning Teaching

Sat, 09 Mar 2024 13:28:01 -0600

Merge the attention with the Infinite Self—and all the forgotten secrets of the soul will be revealed. The atrophied powers of the higher mind are still latent and waiting to be activated. Drop dependence on external technology, which is oppressive, and relearn the mastery of thought—and gain the grace of freedom.

Why Reject or Limit Your Genius? Shunyamurti Teaching

Mon, 04 Mar 2024 09:52:05 -0600

On the spiritual journey, there comes a point of no return. Then, one must take the risk of leaving behind the ego mind, and entering the realm of the Divine Presence. The macrocosm is on this trajectory, as well as every microcosm.

Mimetic Rivalry is the Root of Evil - Shunyamurti Retreat Teaching

Sat, 24 Feb 2024 07:54:56 -0600

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Description: This explanation of Rene Girard’s model of social functioning, based on the ego’s uncertainty about what it wants, brings new clarity to our personal difficulties and those in the realm of macropolitics. The discourse describes the chain of effects brought about by coveting the attributes or possessions of a chosen other. These cascade from envy to imitation, to rivalry, and to some level of symptomatic violence. We must become free of scapegoating and being victimized, as well as from all rescue fantasies. There is an easy way out.

How to Be Free of Outer and Inner Distractions - Shunyamurti Outer Limits Interview Clip

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:14:15 -0600

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The ego is addicted to its distractions. Because at the core, the ego lacks inherent essence, and thus has subconscious negative self-esteem, it is always running away from—and defending against feeling—its vulnerable and wounded heart. There are ways to overcome this once we recognize the reality of our suffering and its inner cause.

Overcoming the Indoctrination into Nihilism - Shunyamurti Retreat Teaching

Sat, 17 Feb 2024 10:14:34 -0600

As one goes ever deeper into one’s inner being, past the ego and its shadow, the paradigm of reality shifts repeatedly as the perception is purified and accurate discernment of the Real comes more into focus. The enigmas presented by the false beliefs we were taught and then, more deeply, by the pairs of opposites that keep the mind split and in internal conflict and confusion, are gradually overcome. The outer becomes recognized as the inner. The Other is reclaimed as the Self. Unity is perceived pervading the multiplicity. The ultimate mystery is at last revealed. Freedom is regained.

History is God’s Mystery Play—Which Ends with Revelation and Redemption: Shunyamurti Interview Clip

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:28:48 -0600

In this extraordinary conversation, the secrets of history and eschatology are revealed. The story of our collective loss of grace—and the fall of the world from a paradise to a hell realm—and our current struggle to repair the creation by transforming ourselves through sacrifice of the ego and returning to our divine essence, will end in victory for the forces of light over those of darkness and evil. But for now, we must enjoy the suspense of not knowing the outcome—until we have become saturated by the purifying Presence of the Supreme Self within and beyond. This is a clip taken from a recent conversation between Shunyamurti and Ryan McCormick host of the Outer Limits of Inner Truth podcast. Watch the full interview: https://bit.ly/vigilante-shunyamurti

Fear of Vulnerability Underpins Self-Alienation - Shunyamurti Early Morning Teaching

Sat, 10 Feb 2024 11:03:10 -0600

A realized yogi sheds his skin, but does not grow a new one. Since there is no outside and no inside to the Real, no skin boundary or defensive shield is either necessary or possible. The Self has no other, no enemy, and no limit. All fear drops away.

Ripening, Discernment, Angelic Service: The Path of Graduation

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 08:51:48 -0600

Essential insights into the discernment of an accurate path, guide, methodology of purification of the doors of perception, and subtle preparation for service in one’s body of light—crowned by final graduation from the wisdom school of life—are offered in this outstanding interchange of ideas and energies: A conversation that can bring about a sublime conversion. This is a clip taken from a recent conversation between Shunyamurti and Ryan McCormick, host of the Outer Limits of Inner Truth podcast. Watch the full interview:

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Resonate With Total Presence ~ Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 27 Jan 2024 08:16:21 -0600

By cultivating resonance with the vibrational frequency of pure and total presence—the Supreme Real—new meanings and insights precipitate from the Infinite Intelligence, the Mind of God. These downloads re-program the destiny of one’s becoming, leading to the attainment of eternal Being.

Urgent Message in Our Morphogenic Field - A Special Message from Shunyamurti

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 09:34:35 -0600

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Description: Since the cosmos is fractally constructed, a common logic of unfoldment exists at every level, in every node of consciousness. This produces in the egoic mind a morphogenic effect that pervades our reality, and manifests as wondrous synchronicities and as similar sorts of self-sabotaging glitches, self-destructive attitudes, stupid reactions, and vain clashes of conflicting wills. If we can reach the inner root of these karmic patterns, then consciousness can free itself of bondages and return to our true nature. Teaching Recorded on Sunday, January 21, 2024

The 7 Dimensions of Reality…and the Divine Functions of the Self ~ Shunyamurti Retreat Teaching

Sat, 20 Jan 2024 08:14:58 -0600

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Sacrifice: The Secret of World Renewal - Shunyamurti Invites You to the Next Online Retreat

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 10:20:07 -0600

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The ancient scriptures from all lineages—elaborated most fully in the Vedas—reveal the role that is played by sacrifice in the political economy during the period of the Eschaton, both for individual redemption and world destruction and renewal of Creation. The nature and accomplishment of the necessary sacrificial acts will be explained and possibly fulfilled in the upcoming retreat.

Leave the Inferno of the Ego Mind ~ Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 13 Jan 2024 11:09:22 -0600

The chattering ego mind functions as a veil to separate our consciousness from the realization of the Whole. Within the ego, the mindfield is further fragmented into many illusory parts, each with a different drive and orientation toward the Other. Some parts are helpful and compassionate, others may be dark and demonic. Still others may be sad, frightened, anxious, ashamed, confused, and feel powerless. This turns the ego into a conflicted hell realm. There is a path of purification that leads quickly through Purgatorio to the superconscious Paradiso of the Supreme Self. If you are willing to leave your attachments behind, your inner wisdom will guide you to freedom.

The Power that Ends All Anguish and Delusion Awaits Within ~ Shunyamurti Early Morning Teaching

Sat, 06 Jan 2024 14:23:18 -0600

Salvation can only be our own receipt of forgiveness from the Merciful Lord Who abides within the Heart as the Self. Once forgiven for the sin of egocentricity and separation from the Self, one is freed from the delusions of duality. Perception becomes cleansed of its defilements and the perfection of the divine beauty of the Real is recognized with awe and wonder. Consciousness gladly surrenders to be absorbed into the Blissful Light.

God’s Light Ignites the Final Bonfire of Vanities - Shunyamurti Early Morning Teaching

Sat, 30 Dec 2023 09:03:16 -0600

Consciousness is constantly morphing, causing the world to appear as a metastable process of mutation, leading to an entropic disjunction of desires and drives, reflected as a world on the edge of chaos. Consciousness and its world both undergo the passage into annihilation. But then, as the chaos converts into pure potentiality, it morphs into a new and perfect order. Thus, the world dies and is reborn. Worldhood itself is without beginning or end. Time is not other than eternity.

Bliss is the Self’s Illusion—the Ego is its Disillusion - Shunyamurti Answers Your Questions

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 12:40:33 -0600

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A number of different questions are asked by seekers of Truth, but all are answered by the realization of the Self as the perfection of every moment of experience.

The World Will Fulfill Your Desires - Shunyamurti Answers Your Questions

Tue, 26 Dec 2023 10:53:00 -0600

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Quantum waves convert into particles in order to fulfill the desire of the observing physicist. Those desires in turn are a product of the collapsing of qualium wave functions which convert the potentiality of desire into actuality, and turn humans into desiring machines. The whole cosmos appears because of desire, but not the desire of humans, but rather, the Desire of Consciousness Itself. The One Infinite Self desires an infinity of experiences to reflect and fulfill its Will to know Itself by converting Its unmanifest essence into the greatest work of art ever created: the Universe from the Alpha Point to the Omega Point (and its antimatter inverse Other), containing every form of beauty, and every possibility of meaning, in a vast Theodrama culminating in the fulfillment of Its infinite greed, via Its own embodiment as the Self-Revelation and Self-Redemption of all its dissipative holographic structures, systems, and holons in a grand return to Our eternal Singularity.

Know the Joy of Being Born as God ~ Shunyamurti Christmas Teaching

Sat, 23 Dec 2023 14:15:04 -0600

The symbolic meaning of Christmas is a message of universal urgency and personal significance to every conscious being. It is a prefigured celebration of your awakening to your divine nature and the rebirth of the character you play in the matrix as an avatar, a Buddha, a manifestation of God, begotten as the Only Self, by the blissful union of Shakti and Shiva. Blessings for living in the glory of Theosis.

How to Bring Life to this Valley of Dry Bones ~ Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 16 Dec 2023 07:08:15 -0600

Because we have abandoned our love for the Mother Goddess and the Father God, and their internal integration as pure mutuality of divine adoration, the life energy has gone out of our archetypal forms and fallen into the morbid and demonic realm of the hungry ghosts and zombie egos, which clash in the darkness of a desert world on the brink of self-annihilation. Only a return to the fullness of the Zero will emanate the salvific power of the Source of our Being.

Disregard the Ego Narratives - Shunyamurti Reads The Sages

Sat, 09 Dec 2023 09:13:05 -0600

No one is in bondage. Only the choice to believe the ego narratives diverts the attention from the Supreme Presence within—and equally without. This is a universal truth. The illumined sages of every spiritual lineage have passed this on as their legacy. That is why it is often called the Perennial Philosophy. But theoretical knowledge is not enough: The habit of forgetfulness of Self must be abandoned.

Recognize the Reality of Dreaming and the Dreaming of Reality

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 12:05:04 -0600

Ultimate reality is closer than the present moment and never becomes past or future. To perceive this Truth is already to be liberated and forever free. But the timebound mind, which veils the Real, must be dropped so that all is revealed and transcended.

The Empowering Secrets of our Paradoxical Reality - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 18 Nov 2023 12:09:18 -0600

The Buddha Mind loves paradox. Once you are energized by the recognition that the world is Nirvana, and that Nirvana is not other than the apparent world, all the predispositions of the linear mind that produce the bondage of reification drop away spontaneously. In the revelation of the Self as naked Presence, all is perceived as miraculous and awesomely beautiful. Attainment of Liberation is the result of dropping all fear and desire, all thought constructs, and all judgments.

The Aghori Option May Be Your Best Strategy - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 11 Nov 2023 09:43:22 -0600

Today, many people are functioning as hungry ghosts. And many are paralyzed spiritually by feelings of disgust and shame about their self-images, histories, and modes of self-presentation. In this context, Shunyamurti retells a story originally told by Acharya Sthaneshwar Timalsina about his meeting with an Aghori guru—and explores the implications of the extreme lifestyles and practices of those pariah yogis with amazing powers. Through this analysis, we learn how to raise our consciousness to new symbolic heights and then pass beyond the mind to the Supreme Real. This enables the liberated Self to emerge.

The Whole World is Becoming Gaza ~ Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 11:45:16 -0600

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Aghoris are fierce, sinister, sometimes superhuman yogis who reject all civilized values, live in cremation grounds and treat the funeral pyres as private barbecues. They are so dead to desire that they are fearless and can endure levels of pain and horror that would break other men. They are radically free and beyond inhibition or moral constraints. Now that the territory of Gaza is being bombed relentlessly on a daily basis the zone is becoming a vast cremation ground. A new kind of Aghori army may emerge from this hideous crucible that will make even zombies flee in terror. For those of us who seek the other end of the spectrum of consciousness, we can reach the state of fearlessness through being absorbed into the bliss of divine love and adoration. But it will require the same achievement of the death of appetite for ease and sensory enjoyment.

Extract Consciousness from Limiting Narratives - Question and Answer Compilation with Shunyamurti

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 09:52:02 -0600

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Many secrets of maximizing intelligence and non-ordinary power are offered in these brief answers to urgent spiritual questions. Such insights as—how to gain a passport to the next Golden Age; the quickest way to de-potentiate the shadow forces; the pragmatic effectiveness of love; and the simplest way to eliminate self-limiting narratives—are among the topics covered.

The Process of Re-Divinization - Questions & Answers with Shunyamurti

Sun, 05 Nov 2023 10:55:51 -0600

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The esoteric meaning of the Islamic myth of Iblis (known in Christian mythology as Lucifer) is discussed with its special relevance for this moment in history. The way to undo our fallen state is clarified and its outcome described.

The Four Secret Passageways to Freedom ~ Shunyamurti Invites You to the Next Online Retreat

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:40:24 -0600

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Consciousness is a many-splendored power. But humans have lost the art of activating and mastering its full potential. They have become victims of their minds, rather than free sovereigns living in joy and creative genius. To escape the prison of a consciousness that has become too dense, too fixed in obsolete beliefs, trapped in distressing emotions, delusions, and self-limiting attitudes, you must become skilled in the magical art of shifting your assemblage point by raising the internal energy of kundalini. This ultimate alchemical attainment is urgently needed now—as our collective world is at the breaking point.

Attunement to the Self is Our Function - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 28 Oct 2023 08:07:09 -0600

The world is becoming ever more polarized, and soon everyone will join the living dead—either as a zombie or an avadhuta, one who has gone through ego death. The latter will free the souls trapped in the state of the former.

Antagonism Can Only Lead to Mutual Destruction ~ Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 21 Oct 2023 09:39:46 -0600

People operating at the ego level go to war out of love—whether it is love of family, country, land, treasure, conquest, or glory. But only lovers of God—who have realized God in all beings and therefore cannot hate anyone or act with aggression or violence toward anyone—can bring peace to the world. To love God is to love your Self. This love transcends all worlds. It is now the will of God to bring complete peace by returning all souls to their Source in the Unmanifest Supreme Reality.

Learn the Nirvanic Logos of the Hologram ~ Shunyamurti Early Morning Teaching

Sat, 14 Oct 2023 08:39:06 -0600

In order not to deviate from the highest trajectory of the unfoldment of Consciousness, one must stay attuned to the Dao. This is the Logos that unites Nirvana with Samsara—nonduality with multiplicity—thus transforming the cosmic hologram into the pure reflection of the Infinite Intelligence. One perceives the Real unstained by egoic delusions that produce the sense of conflict, imperfection, and evil. In this way, the great work of divine alchemy is completed.

The Mystical Meaning Of The Mideast War: Armageddon Now?

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 08:07:39 -0600

The war in Ukraine has suddenly disappeared from the news, replaced by a new war in the Middle East. Rather than getting lost in the labyrinth of conspiracy theories about the identity of the puppet master, or paranoia about the likelihood of this escalating into global nuclear war, it is imperative to remain centered in the Real Self and understand the spiritual significance of what is unfolding—and to act in accord with the Dao of these final days.

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Become God’s Fearless Lion ~ Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 07 Oct 2023 11:01:48 -0600

A Sufi poet reveals the salvific truth of our real nature. Now is the time to break free of all limiting beliefs and overcome the illusion of mortality and materiality. Our next retreat—The Great Escape—is designed to enable us to break out of the prison camp of the mind, liberate our souls, and bring a beautiful end to this dying world—and a divine new beginning.

Liberation Requires a Laser-Like Mind ~ Shunyamurti Classic Teaching

Fri, 06 Oct 2023 08:26:32 -0600

We have all been indoctrinated into nihilistic, false, and incoherent beliefs. This has blurred our ability to understand reality and to connect with God. By attaining freedom from all beliefs and returning to the coherence of silent presence, we can break through the veils that separate us from the redemptive Light and Power of Divine Love.

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The Conscientious Will Receive a Visit from the Goddess - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 30 Sep 2023 11:29:01 -0600

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A New Covenant for the World to Come

The development of true conscience only comes when one has silenced the superego voices in one’s mind and has discovered the inner Presence of the divine Voice of the Stillness. Then, the consciousness opens up to the awesome reality of oneness-in-difference. This vision brings with it the ethic of nonduality—and the duty to treat all beings as manifestations of the One Self.

Light the Fire of Creative Imagination! Shunyamurti Classic Teaching

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 09:08:20 -0600

To perceive the perfect poetry of life in this time of darkness, one must light the sacrificial fire of our pure Spirit—which manifests as joyous creative imagination—that sees the infinite beauty of the luminous Presence of God everywhere, converting the darkness into Light.

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Secrets of the Kundalini Assemblage Points - Shunyamurti Seminar Teaching

Sat, 23 Sep 2023 08:24:31 -0600

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Our mental narratives transfigure infinity into a bardo state. We become enslaved to our own preconceptions and self-fulfilling prophecies. At each assemblage point, the kundalini becomes configured by a different paradigm, and different synchronicities and karmic potentialities arise. At the highest levels, we become free of confinement in contexts and conditions. The awesome and inconceivable destroyer and creator of worlds, the GodSelf, becomes revealed.

Claim Your Freedom from Thoughts and Desires - Shunyamurti Classic Teaching

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 10:01:28 -0600

The path to psycho-spiritual freedom goes through the portal of dispassion. Once the attention abides in stillness and can no longer be captured by thoughts and emotions, the greatness of the Self is revealed.

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The Wisdom of the Sufi Poet Who Started It All - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 16 Sep 2023 07:22:21 -0600

Hakim Sana’i, the first major Sufi poet to express the message of the radical spiritual revolution that would be carried on later by such voices as Attar, Rumi, and Hafiz, delivers the punchy nectar of divine intoxication that comes of annihilating the ego. Even a few bullets from this ecstatic shotgun of Truth can do the job on any ego who listens.

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What is Enlightened Consciousness? - Shunyamurti Classic Teaching

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:09:56 -0600

The psychology of the postmodern ego is so cynical that it can even turn the truth of nonduality into a reason for fear and dissatisfaction. However, knowledge is power. Once we understand the dynamics of the ego mind, we can make alterations in its functioning. And the intellect can deconstruct the ego entirely and sublimate its energies so that consciousness shifts its locus to the highest level of its own spectrum. This teaching was recorded on December 6, 2012.

Learn to Connect to Your Superconscious Self - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 09 Sep 2023 09:51:40 -0600

Yogic powers come from learning how to de-collapse one’s quantum/qualium wave functions. This requires extinguishing projections and recognizing the true nature of the phenomenal world. This return to our Supreme Reality will free us from attachment to empty jouissance and enable us to produce a divine global renaissance.

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The Monad is Morphing into Cosmic Mind ~ Shunyamurti Classic Teaching

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:16:52 -0600

The fall of consciousness into its current degraded ego complex has hit bottom. Now we are awakening and rising again into higher states of Being. The escape hatch is a transformed frame of reference that reveals our true nature as cosmic mind.

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Our Freedom is Inalienable…if We Make Use of It! ~ Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 02 Sep 2023 07:51:52 -0600

We have total freedom. But we have used it to put ourselves in bondage. The good news is that what we fear is unreal. By summoning up our courage, our inherent wisdom, and our divine love, we can break all our illusory chains and re-dream the world as a realm of freedom, beauty, goodness, joy, and creative power.

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Who Are You Underneath Your Mask? Shunyamurti Classic Teaching

Thu, 31 Aug 2023 08:19:06 -0600

The ego is a fabricated identity, an imitation of a self, but without essence. This false persona conceals the Infinite Consciousness that underlies it. At the end of time, the Real Self comes out of hiding and brings revelation and redemption to all the suffering illusory characters. You are both the counterfeit self and the Real.

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Our Lives Are a Contest Between Light and Darkness - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 26 Aug 2023 07:40:24 -0600

Life is a sport—a contest between good and evil, truth and illusion, life and death, divine light and demonic darkness. If you want to have a chance of winning, you must combine wildness and discipline, you must free your creative intelligence from all limiting paradigms, and you must defeat the primary opponent: the narcissistic ego. The secret of success is to become possessed by the Almighty Spirit!

The Magic Drive Underlies Both Science and Religion - Shunyamurti Classic Teaching

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 10:43:31 -0600

The magic drive is inherent to all beings: it is the urge to master the unfoldment of phenomenal reality. But the modern ego chose the black magic of technology devoted to war, conquest, and control rather than the white magic of attunement to the will and word of God. The ego has thus become an ongoing magic spell produced by mental insistence on protecting the shadow and keeping consciousness in a trance of ignorance. But the Supreme Magician is now setting us free through the sweet necromancy of grace. Recorded on the afternoon of Tuesday, November 10, 2009.

What Level of Intelligence is Moving You? - Shunyamurti Early Morning Teaching

Sat, 19 Aug 2023 09:47:08 -0600

Who is playing you in the chess game that constitutes your life? Your best gambit is to invoke the Goddess. She knows how to employ the Queen to offer the one sacrifice that brings victory over Death.

You Contain the Entire Universe - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 12 Aug 2023 07:37:21 -0600

Our true nature is freedom—and that can never be lost. All our desires emerge from the temporary forgetfulness of that reality. Desire is always for the Real Self. We must desire more intensely if we wish to realize our sublime, infinite, ecstatic essence.

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A Coherent Way to Understand Reality - Shunyamurti Retreat Teaching

Sat, 05 Aug 2023 09:33:11 -0600

There are no limits to the potentialities of consciousness. If you know where you are on an accurate map of reality, that will become clear. You will also learn that the world is made of language and is produced by pulsations of mental energy. This is information everyone needs to know—in order to cope with the rapidly unfolding events in this mind-driven matrix.

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Why We Must Lose the World to Regain Our Souls - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 08:34:54 -0600

We’re at the end of the line. Life has become hollow. Now is the moment we must be hallowed. God has secretly returned to the world, but we must choose to return to God by detaching from all worldly values and attuning to the energy coming from the Source, which will infuse us with the blissful and beautiful mandala that will congeal into a new world of perfect goodness.

How Symbolic Intelligence Can Awaken Us to the Real - Shunyamurti Classic Teaching

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:09:29 -0600

The Popcorn Paradigm of Popping into Paradise - Shunyamurti Morning Teaching

Sat, 22 Jul 2023 08:10:34 -0600

Evolution and involution are occurring simultaneously in our current world condition One force hardens the ego shell, the other softens it. To speed up the bursting open of the bounded mind to transform into the Supreme Self, one can either enter the boiling oil of karma or apply the microwaves of adoration to morph by the grace of God.

Why Not Connect to the Highest Intelligence? - Shunyamurti Classic Teaching

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 07:58:52 -0600

One Mind contains us all, but each one must decide to connect to the Cosmic Self directly and consciously. You must overcome all fear in order to break through the ego defenses, since to the ego, connecting to God means death.

Choose Your Future: Monstrous or Miraculous

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 06:42:11 -0600

We have the gift of free will and can now choose either a life of divinization or one of degradation and destruction. Why not dance in delight in the sky of perfect mind rather than stay trapped in the ruined, lawless, and loveless landscapes of illusion?

Shift from the Delusion Within the Illusion to the Real - Shunyamurti Classic Teaching

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 07:31:09 -0600

Meditation can destroy the inner demons of the ego’s delusional duality, as well as the greater illusion of the cosmic hologram in which the subject seems to be embedded. If you are ready and willing to break though the virtual reality represented as the sensory manifold, you become a true Sat yogi by focusing on the core of constant Presence and attune to the vibrational frequency of the all-saturating energy of luminous, blissful power—the locus from which the unfoldment of the world process is determined. Recorded 26 October, 2015

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The World Ends When You Realize It Never Began - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 08 Jul 2023 09:46:07 -0600

Consciousness is Beauty, Beatitude, and Bliss. But once the desire to possess that beauty arises, it becomes perceived as an external world, and the perceiving mind is afflicted by lack and separation. The more one complains, the more ugly and antagonistic one’s world becomes. And one is then trapped on the wheel of karma. The Truth is that all is forever perfect! The kingdom of heaven arrives when one sees that. This is the deep insight of Dzogchen and the deepest teaching of all authentic spiritual traditions.

Love the Unknowable and Humble the Ego

Thu, 06 Jul 2023 08:19:22 -0600

Meditation is not a matter of either technique or belief. Begin with total doubt about reality and seek the source of your consciousness. Direct realization requires the absence of preconceptions and predispositions.
Recorded during the Lion Heart Koan retreat, on the morning of Sunday, October 25, 2015.

The Demise of the Dividual and the Return of the Self - Shunyamurti Unveils the Next Online Retreat

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 09:06:19 -0600

In anticipation of our next online weekend intensive, Passing Through The Gate, July 14 - 16, (https://bit.ly/passing-gate) Shunyamurti gave this profound teaching.

Eventually we all arrive at the Gate to our innermost consciousness. But we can accelerate the process of going through the Great Gate by choosing the involutionary path of living in total awareness. This is the moment when the return to the inner light and natural joy is most easily attained.

The Self Awakens from the Fractal Field of Dreams - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 08:48:48 -0600

You can avoid the meat grinder of a bardo state encounter with wrathful deities if you are willing to go through all three deaths, starting now! Then the fullness of creative power will return.

The Ego Prefers Complaining to Adoring Reality - Shunyamurti Classic Teaching

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 08:27:46 -0600

Eternal bliss comes at the price of renunciation of the ego-mind. Otherwise, the hubris and greed of the ego will block the reception of the supernatural intelligence of the Mind of God. It is divine love alone that will restore the world to perfect order. Recorded on February 27, 2015.

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How to Build a Bridge to Nirvana - Shunyamurti Seminar Teaching

Sat, 24 Jun 2023 08:13:39 -0600

The ego keeps files on everyone and everything in its life. These files fill the mind. The ego must be de-filed so that the undefiled Self is revealed. In effortless presence redemption is achieved.

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How to Emanate a Crown of Light ~ Shunyamurti Retreat Teaching

Sat, 17 Jun 2023 12:49:23 -0600

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A lightning bolt of love from the Cloud of the Unknowable can transform one’s noxious psychic drives into divine Presence. Sublimation of ego tendencies results from sustaining the pillar of light that remains when one adores the Absolute Self.

The Sacred is Returning Now - Shunyamurti Classic Teaching

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 08:54:37 -0600

Where there is the Supreme Light, there can be no darkness. It is important to remember that the dark forces are unreal. Use viveka (discernment) and vairagya (dispassion) to abide in the unity of the Real—and remember: you are That! Recorded on February 20, 2012.

No Swimming in the Mirage! ~ Shunyamurti Reads the Sages

Sat, 10 Jun 2023 08:58:00 -0600

The Diamond-Lightning Sutra strikes again! Buddha one-ups Heraclitus: you can’t swim in the same stream even once—because there is no stream! There’s no real water in a dream.

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Observe the Play of the Weak and the Strong ~ Shunyamurti Reads the Sages

Sat, 03 Jun 2023 14:22:37 -0600

The poetry of Attar is unpacked to reveal its profound spiritual teachings. The relationship between the weak and the strong elements in the ego will determine its health and willingness to grow and recognize the Truth. The bottom line is that the ego must realize it is nothing, a shadow, and one must live only for what is real and eternal—which is the Beloved Self.

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Authentic Law is a Product of Love and Wisdom ~ Shunyamurti Classic Teaching

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 09:09:23 -0600

What are we here for, if not love and joy? To bring that into the world, we must be That, which is referred to in the Vedic tradition as Brahman. But we must throw out all our myths and ego narratives to uncover Brahman, our deepest Self, within. Recorded on the morning of Tuesday, February 21, 2012.

Free Your Self from the Prison Structure of the Ego ~ Shunyamurti Answers Your Questions

Sat, 27 May 2023 07:23:05 -0600

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An array of questions from our online sangha during the seminar on Spiritual Heroism are answered here. Many common conundrums are resolved by cutting away illusory identifications. Some problems require a structural understanding in order to demolish them. Concepts from both physics and metaphysics are combined to clarify the shifts in paradigm that are necessary to arrive at dispassion and empowerment. The secrets of Emptiness provide the portal to our inner paradise.

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The Schizophrenia at the Heart of Reality - Shunyamurti Classic Teaching

Thu, 25 May 2023 10:40:42 -0600

Why don't we live constantly in joy? Are we addicted to suffering? Some mysterious power binds us to the illusion of lack. There is a kind of schizophrenia in the Mind of God that produces a world of contradictions and a superposition of peace and conflict, nirvana and samsara. The path to liberation starts when we remember to laugh at the unreal ego. Then the blissful shakti emerges as a creative force that lights up our world. Recorded April 2, 2012.

Prepare for the Shocking Climax of History!

Tue, 23 May 2023 09:29:51 -0600

You Shall Become the Fire! Do you have a question for Shunyamurti? Join Us Live Online ~ June 2 - 4, 2023 ~ The Power of God is Striking! An Advanced Weekend Seminar. Sign Up: https://bit.ly/secret-alchemy

At the moment when most people have become cynical and hopeless, and world destruction looms, the power of God will dramatically return with lightning strikes that blast our minds to infinity! Prepare to be struck by a divine thunderbolt! A radical paradigm shift in consciousness is required for our hearts to withstand the intensity of energy that will descend into our bodies. We would be wise to open our hearts and minds now to receive the supreme power of the transcendent Real that will grace us with transmutation. We must be inwardly attuned to the vibrational frequency of the Buddha Nature and have purified our souls to be morphed into avatars of the ancient future gods and goddesses. But we must be willing to surrender to the glory of the majestic intelligence, luminosity and love that constitute our forgotten spiritual Essence. We must become the Supernal Fire to endure the other events that will accompany the resurrection of our original Edenic realm. Wisdom, faith, and courage are necessary. Please join us for this extraordinary retreat if you wish to be ready to manifest the Flame of Eternal Life!

Where Reason Fails, the Heart Prevails ~ Shunyamurti Reads the Revered Sufi Mystic Farideddin Attar

Sat, 20 May 2023 08:36:25 -0600

The love poems to and from God channeled by the revered Sufi mystic Farideddin Attar, and collected in the book entitled Sweet Sorrow, may be the most potent medicine for cynical minds afflicted by toxic forms of love. The power of these numinous nuggets of gnosis to re-connect one with our true nature is astonishing.

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Come and Be Baptized in the Ocean of Love - Shunyamurti Classic Teaching

Fri, 19 May 2023 08:49:38 -0600

The simple practice of silencing the mind and surrendering to the ecstatic Self is the direct and effortless path. This has always been the message of yogis and sages down through time: you are already swimming in the ocean of bliss. Why not reveal it to your ego? Recorded on February 2nd, 2012.

The Inconceivable Truth Will Burst the Ego into Buddhahood

Sat, 13 May 2023 08:08:06 -0600

The Diamond Sutra, also known as the Lightning Strike Sutra, reveals the paradoxical clarity of the awakened Self, and enables the attainment of the merit which entitles us to dream a perfect world.

Do You Steal from God or Serve with Love? Shunyamurti Classic Teaching

Thu, 11 May 2023 09:01:36 -0600

As Kali Yuga crashes in flames, a divine transformation is taking place in the world. The souls with the most intense yearning for God are being taught how to redream the divine creation. Conscious transformation of our values and focus from the mundane to the noumenal is the effort that brings the response of grace.

Liberation is Complete Fixation on the Self

Tue, 09 May 2023 08:51:03 -0600

Sri Ramana teaches the direct realization of the Self, requiring only tireless devotion. Grace is the reward for serving God wholeheartedly, with complete indifference toward the apparent world.

From Chaos and War to Divine Order: The Secret of God’s Exile and Return

Tue, 02 May 2023 14:48:23 -0600

The ancient epic known as the Ramayana is a time capsule of information and instruction for facing the final days of Kali Yuga. Knowledge of the structure of consciousness and its permutations, including the soul’s romancing and renouncing of desire, is bringing the ego face to face with the Self—and the invincible power of the Real.

Avoid Being Crushed by Social Collapse - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 08 Apr 2023 11:12:43 -0600

People have lost all trust in the institutions that were supposed to serve them, but which now oppress with tyrannical force. There is no way back, now that legitimacy has been squandered. The one rational response is attunement of consciousness to the unified planetary field of intelligence that resonates with the Will of God. This attainment must be our highest priority.

Magic Can Impress the World—Yogic Power Re-Creates It - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 08:12:52 -0600

The world is analogous to a moving image appearing on a computer screen. A shaman learns to modify the underlying program, producing magical effects, through attaining altered states of mind. The yogi transcends the mind and gains the power to turn off the computer or turn the world appearing on the screen to light.

The Greatest Story Ever Told is Now Underway - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 11:26:38 -0600

The most ancient epic work of literature is the Ramayana, the story of how the dark side is defeated by spiritual heroes and how the kingdom of God is won. This tale is not about the past, but explains what is happening now—and contains the secret of the strategy that will assure the victory of those who faithfully serve the Infinite Light.

The Scalar Power of the Vajra Fills the Ether - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 25 Mar 2023 08:22:30 -0600

An ontological shift into absolute idealism is necessary to regain our freedom and power, since the universe is mind, not matter. Sri Ramana refutes Einstein and reminds us that the ancient yogis understood the subtleties of ether, and that plasma physics is under the control of our cosmic intellect.

This Shadow World Will Soon Be Absorbed into the Light - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 08:31:52 -0600

Why is there a subtle feeling of lack in almost every human being today? The ego is the absence of the Self. The Self shall be realized only when the ego becomes absent through the recognition that you are what you are seeking—and all you need to do is be still. From Nov 8, 2013.

Time is Going Through a Pole Shift - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 18 Mar 2023 09:17:18 -0600

The tides of Time are changing now, from the high tide of pravritti to the low tide of nivritti, as the ancient sages called them. Those who do not factor that in to their life strategies and goals will be quite disappointed (which is an understatement). But those who do attune to the teleological will discover one can ride a bliss wave from here to eternity. There are, of course, certain skills involved and one little renunciation.

The Paradox of Effort and Grace - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 08:59:53 -0600

In this classic teaching from April 29, 2012, Shunyamurti takes us on a deep dive into the paradox of the need to make effort on the spiritual path and yet with the knowledge that all effort is useless to reach the goal. Only the grace of the one almighty Self will bring the final realization that sets one free. Of course, since in nonduality the giver and the receiver of grace are the same, the only kind of effort that will suffice is effortless effort, which the immortal Daoist sages called wu wei. It is still the only way.

Physical Causality is an Illusion—Just Like in a Dream - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 11 Mar 2023 05:17:28 -0600

What power is really in control of the world? How can we increase our intelligence, our access to hidden information, and our degree of freedom? In this selection from Shunyamurti’s virtual talk at Anarchapulco 2023, he shows how our archetypal capacities have been degraded and how to awaken from this cosmic dream.

How the Sages Can Help Us Cope with This Crazy World - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 07:17:37 -0600

The revolution must begin within, with the triumph of the Real Self over the false ego. Then, victory over the external forces of evil can be easily won.

How to Free Your Self from a Crippled and Unfree Identity - Shunyamurti Teaching

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 07:10:55 -0600

How does one get locked into an ego? Why did we learn to lie—even to ourselves? How to break free? What kind of identity can we look forward to in the once and future golden age?

Divine Love is All That is Real - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 06:43:01 -0600

The Great Work of Self-realization requires the dropping of all concepts and the elimination of all mental chatter. This destroys the illusion of duality. And reveals the divine splendor that fills the cosmos and will soon shine so brightly that the world will disappear in the radiant sameness that saturates the consciousness of those who see with the Eye of Shiva. (The event was a retreat entitled Divine Love is Real, recorded on February 20, 2012.)

A Manifesto of Unified Spiritual Anarchy - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 25 Feb 2023 09:00:00 -0600

How the conspiracy to take down the human species was prepared and executed, and how it will be defeated, is the subject of this big-picture discourse. Higher powers than the human are participating in this mighty struggle between good and evil that will that will bring world history to its climax. If you wish to serve in the brigades of the Light and gain victory over the dark side, then there are a few essential skills that must be mastered. These core competencies are explained in depth.

Break Open the Unreal Ego Shell to Free the Real Self - Shunyamurti Q&A

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 09:37:35 -0600

When the heart breaks open, it is time to celebrate. What stops the process is the ego’s attachment to its self-image as a tragic hero and its loyalty to an object of love. It requires an even greater love—God’s love—to sacrifice the limited identity and realize the Self as Infinite Divine Love.

How We Somatize the Agony of Impossible Love - Shunyamurti Q&A

Fri, 17 Feb 2023 10:44:22 -0600

"What is the cause of pain and what is the path to freedom from its physical manifestation?" a student asks. In his response, Shunyamurti explains that whatever dis-ease symptoms are appearing in the body or the mind are symbols of repressed heart-knowledge. Two questions can re-start the flow of Truth. Only Truth felt with deep love can set us free.

Bathe in the Holy River of Pure Love - Shunyamurti Teaching

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 06:51:40 -0600

Every morning before dawn, for thousands of years, Sat Yogis have been gathering together by the Holy River of Divine Love to make a sacrificial offering of the ego in order to serve all souls as towering beacons of spiritual power. Let us purify our attitudes and intentions so we can fulfill our mission now, in the world’s darkest hour.

The Anguish and the Ecstasy are One! - Shunyamurti Teaching

Mon, 13 Feb 2023 09:05:49 -0600

A few words from a little-known Sufi poet-sage of the tenth century can pry open your heart with an explosive charge of Truth that you cannot resist. Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir, better known by the title of his book: Nobody Son of Nobody, ably translated by Vraje Abramian, will bring a different kind of tear to flow from your eyes. Hear these poems and weep.

Are You Stuck in a Collapsed Quantum Wave Function? - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 09 Feb 2023 07:59:53 -0600

To see through the ego’s delusions, one must adopt a scientific approach to the highest yoga. One’s intellect must be able to integrate quantum physics with the perspectives of semiotics, complexity theory, chaos theory, psychoanalysis, and archetypal psychology. One must recognize how these disciplines are fully congruent with classical metaphysics and the philosophy of religion. One must avoid the trap of taking religious imagery and dogma literally, rather than as metaphor, and be able to discern the underlying referent within religious mythology. Only with an accurate orientation toward to the Real Source of our consciousness can we hope to realize God.

The Tactical Genius of an Authentic Spiritual Warrior - Shunyamurti Q&A

Tue, 07 Feb 2023 09:18:58 -0600

The soul that is determined to escape from the ego’s control must develop a number of virtues and powers in order to gain the freedom to ascend to God-consciousness. To live as a true spiritual warrior, one must use whatever is left of one’s drive to know the Truth, and be willing to open one’s heart and offer the soul’s love to the Almighty One. There is good reason to call this the Hero’s Journey!

The Secret of the Fearlessness of True Yogis - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 04 Feb 2023 07:33:57 -0600

To cope with the cataclysmic events that are about to erupt in the world, we must be living in Truth. The ego is based on a false premise and is filled with delusional projections. If we do not become free of its paranoid attitude and closed heart, we will not be able to connect with the God-Self. Use wisely the time that remains.

Only a Broken Heart Can Free the Soul - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 07:08:28 -0600

The solution to the riddle of impossible humility is offered with humor and compassion for the human condition. The same riddle is posed in a slightly different way by every wisdom tradition, yet always pointing to the same paradox. You can't make effort to be effortless. One can never attain humility, since claiming it refutes the claim. There must be some way out of this, but it requires abandoning all hope

The Arc of Consciousness at the End of the Age - Shunyamurti Q&A

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 07:43:23 -0600

This retreat is intended to prepare all seekers for what is coming! In this invitation to participate in our upcoming Chaos to Coherence seminar, Shunyamurti expresses the importance of reaching a state of total spiritual coherence--total God-consciousness and total awareness of the Real that transcends the illusion of time, so consciousness can rise beyond the incoming tide of destruction to a level of truth that transmit a vibrational frequency that is a beacon of peace and love amidst the chaos in this dream of the world illusion.

The Official Warning of Armageddon Has Been Announced - Satyoga.org

Fri, 27 Jan 2023 09:28:59 -0600

Reality is revealed from the perspective of a liberated sage, who perceives only the luminous, blissful, eternal Self. By giving our hearts to our beloved Supreme Self now, we can be lifted out of range of any effects of the cataclysmic events about to occur in the phenomenal world. It is useful to know the relative truth about the perilous state of the world and how close we are to thermonuclear Armageddon. But the only reason to know that is to motivate the consciousness to ascend to the Transcendent Real.

The Function of the Demonic is to Spur Us to Become Divine - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 21 Jan 2023 09:00:00 -0600

"As we approach the final days of this final period of the Kalpa, the events that occur within the cycle of time become ever more extreme, and the extreme polarities of consciousness become ever more powerful, and the middle range of the spectrum of consciousness becomes weaker." In this morning teaching, Shunyamurti reminds us that we have the power to choose between the divine and the demonic energies, and the moment of choice is now. Is your soul encased by the ego or will you decide to take refuge with the protector of all souls and become a being of light, not matter.

What is Left Out of Trinitarian Theology? - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 07:38:16 -0600

Surprise! Shunyamurti offers insight into the element of surprise as a complementary aspect to the trinity, forming the invisible principle that creates a quaternity, and which is actually the creative freedom and power required to redream the world which appears as a spectrum of (often surprising) moments of pleasure and pain, revealing that perceived glitches are actually perfect opportunities to recognize the incredible mystery of an authentic spiritual path to awakening.

What Does it Mean to Kill Your Ego? - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 08:27:18 -0600

What does it mean to kill your ego? Shunyamurti offers a solution to the problem of the ego–no mind! Take refuge in the effortless, natural state–your true nature–and you will discover your identity is a fiction, all is contained, ordained, and explained by your true Self, and reality will unfold without obstruction.

Enter the Center of Consciousness - Shunyamurti Guided Meditation

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 08:22:15 -0600

Open your heart and receive the power and shakti that comes from Divine Love! In this guided meditation journey, Shunyamurti invites us to attune to Presence. When you feel the presence of the Supreme within, the joy of eternal consciousness will be realized as your Self, and the infinite intensity of energy in the Zero Point will annihilate the ego-mind and purify the consciousness, so you can be reborn as Holy Spirit.

The Practice of Nondual Devotion - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 07 Jan 2023 08:22:19 -0600

The true significance of Namaste is revealed, along with the real meaning of dreams, insights into the state of deep sleep, and its revelatory connection to the source of life energy.

Transform Karma into Wisdom and Spiritual Power! - Shunyamurti Q&A

Tue, 03 Jan 2023 09:24:06 -0600

We are near the end of Kali Yuga, and it seems like there is so much karma to purify. Will this baggage burden us even in the next cycle of time? Shunyamurti responds to a question about the function of karma. Graduation from the school of life and death requires purification of consciousnes. If you clean up your karma now you can receive a passport to Liberation and the heavenly realms.

The Topology of Reality is a Klein Bottle - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 31 Dec 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti casts light on the archetype of all illnesses: every symptom is a symbol and a blessing, if one is able to understand the klein bottle aspect of reality--that every ego's got it all inside out.

How Big a Dose Do You Want? (of Grace) - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 29 Dec 2022 09:16:35 -0600

Shunyamurti outlines the Seven Levels of Grace that will lead one to the fulfillment of the Quest. But to receive the gift of Grace, one must have faith and let go of feelings of unworthiness, allowing grace to heal the pain of the paradigm of duality and recognizing that Grace is of the Self and not of an other.

The Other Object of Desire: The Self - Shunyamurti Q&A

Tue, 27 Dec 2022 08:59:54 -0600

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What exactly is the problem with desire? Shunyamurti offers a response to this question and insight into how to rediscover what every being truly desires: the freedom and glory of the Real Self, and the capacity for Divine Love, which is the real power that brings the ultimate fulfillment. This short but powerful teaching is a precursor to the upcoming New Year Retreat, Desire, Dharma and Deliverance, which begins this Friday. If you wish to fully understand the origin, destiny and paradox of desire, sign up today for a non ordinary New Year, New Kalpa event with the Sat Yoga Global Sangha!

May Santa Light Your Jyoti Bindu! Hear the Para Nada Sing! - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 24 Dec 2022 09:00:00 -0600

On Christmas Eve, the godly gifts of bindu and nada (the light and soundless song of the Self) are given to those who gather at the Tree of Life to be Christed. It is time to end the war with God, our alienation from our divine nature. It is the moment designated by Source to return to our Infinite Spirit. May we be the ones who at last bring the joy of Rapture to the world.

Christmas: From an Esoteric Interfaith Perspective - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti unpacks deep layers of meaning contained in the Christmas scenario. He links the universal and archetypal levels of the Christ as symbol with the actual life of the enlightened Israelite sage who is remembered by that title. The dimension of the Christ as Self is distinguished from other religious, ideological, and mythological depictions. We also learn how the teachings of Christ have analogs in all religions, and how the holy day of Christ’s symbolic birth takes place at the end of the year, which heralds the revelation of God at the end of every cycle of time, heralding a new beginning. Facing the Apocalypse is the final exam in this wisdom school that is the world, and only the attainment of Christ-consciousness will avail at the moment of Truth. May the Christ (who is also Krishna, Buddha, and the Dao, among other names) be born in you this season.

The Ten Co-Mindments to Abide in Great Bliss - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 17 Dec 2022 09:12:14 -0600

Shunyamurti offers a new set of Ten Co-Mindments as organizing principles for the arising of a new people who will bring a more beautiful world into Being. To participate, we must abide in Maha Sukha, the Great Bliss, and channel the power, love, and wisdom of the Supreme Self.

How Fear Has Gained the Upper Hand - Shunyamurti Q&A

Tue, 06 Dec 2022 10:46:37 -0600

How do we overcome feelings of fear that arise in response to these uncertain times? Shunyamurti shares the secret to claiming victory over fear, by living in soul-consciousness and claiming sovereignty of Being.

Freedom Requires Sovereignty of Consciousness - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 03 Dec 2022 09:03:22 -0600

Do you really want to know what is happening? Shunyamurti offers a spiritual understanding of the situation at hand and an archeological perspective on the eschaton, the imminent end of the world that consciousness is now dreaming as the moment in which we have the power to choose to leap out of the matrix or languish in it. Now is the moment to get out while you still can, by finding the strength to break through the hegemonic control of your mind and into the supreme levels of consciousness that are available to those who yearn for true freedom and sovereignty.

Enter the Silent Depths of Presence: A Guided Inner Journey - Shunyamurti Guided Meditation

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 09:34:07 -0600

In this meditative journey with Shunyamurti, you will be guided to let go of the outer world completely, and to relax the body into deeper states of pure awareness, accessing the inner realm of the pure Self in the ocean of infinite consciousness, where you will find the Pearl of Great Price. Can you abide in the depths of the eternal nature of your Being? As the body enters into a deep state of deep sleep, the awareness opens to the inner light, and total wakefulness reveals the love that is power and freedom, and the total tranquility of inner stillness.

Master the Slippery Logic of Nonduality - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 26 Nov 2022 08:20:23 -0600

Shunyamurti reminds us that the world is unreal and there is only the Real, which is regained by returning to silence, where the eternal eloquence of truth can be heard and eternal presence can be felt in Absolute Absence—but in order to swaha into the infinite, we must surrender the mind that creates the illusion of time.

Yoga is a Love Affair… But Not Every Love Affair is the Highest Yoga - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 19 Nov 2022 09:06:00 -0600

Sat Yoga is the ultimate love affair with God, and meditation is an act of love. If you wish to be free from the illusion, you must align with the divine, settle your karma through surrender, not suffering, and let Divine Love lift you out of maya and out of the matrix for infinity and eternity.

St. Seraphim’s Method of Attaining Supreme Power - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 17 Nov 2022 09:00:00 -0600

In this classic teaching, Shunyamurti uses the teaching of Saint Seraphim of Sarov, (a great Russian Saint), alongside other traditions, to reveal the true aim of spiritual seekers: To get out of ignorance and remember you are free, so you can pass through the illusion into the Ultimate Reality. The contemplation of consciousness precipitates Presence, and this activates the realization that returns consciousness to stillness. If you aim to know the Truth, be still. Recorded on the evening of Thursday, June 28, 2012.

Why the West Failed to Become Civilized - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 12 Nov 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti outlines the 7 phases of history of Kali Yuga West–and the downward spiral of collective consciousness that reveals why the West has failed to become civilized and why criminals now run the world.

Don’t Get Trapped in the Mirror of Your Mind - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Each of us is like a mirror that's looking for itself in the mirror. But consciousness is trapped in the mirror of its own projections—this is the paradox. The truth of consciousness emerges when false identification is released, which means letting go of the mind that wants to maintain the illusion of existence, releasing the defense mechanisms that keep one in ignorance, and the realization that Liberation is here and now. Recorded on the evening of Thursday, October 1, 2009.

…Until You Fill the Ego’s Empty Heart - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 29 Oct 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti offers us all an invitation to find freedom now—through true meditation. When we flatline the mind, consciousness expands, shifting from the unreal to the Real, and the power to redream the world returns.

…Until You Fill the Ego’s Empty Heart - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 29 Oct 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Every Idea Collapses the Wave Function - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Take a quantum leap into freedom! Shunyamurti shares how to help the world out of the knot that it is currently stuck in: we must meditatively sacrifice the ego, with love for ourselves and for all beings, because liberating oneself liberates all projected others, and enables us to live joyously again, without fear, transcendent of the world—so all may return to the quantum state before collapse. Recorded on the evening of Thursday, August 12, 2010.

True Reason Brings Harmony and Redemption - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 09:00:00 -0600

What is Self-attunement? In this teaching on “The 7 Stations of Self-Attunement,“ Shunyamurti shares how to live a life true to the Will of the Divine. By increasing our intelligence, we can untie the knot that traps us in the lower chakras and use Reason to rise up the kundalini ladder to the realm of Pure Spirit.

May the Force Be with You - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti tells the story of Japanese philosopher Tanabe Hajime—and his breakdown that ultimately led to his breakthrough book, “The Philosophy of Metanoetics”—as an illustration of how a state of collapse can bring consciousness to a state of surrender to the Real, so we can gain the strength to deal with the impossible challenges of reality from a place beyond the mind. Recorded on the evening of Thursday, December 2, 2010.

The Secret of the Seven Turnings of the Dharma Wheel - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 15 Oct 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti uses the rise and fall of Buddhist approaches to reveal the nature of one's resistance to Liberation; these turnings of the wheel of Buddha dharma return us to Sat Yoga, the final destiny of completion for all beings everywhere.

Live Free and Be Willing to Die for Freedom - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 13 Oct 2022 09:00:00 -0600

This is the fourth and final clip in the series of interview questions Ryan McCormick posed to Shunyamurti on the Outer Limits of Inner Truth Podcast, in which Shunyamurti reminds us that spiritual warriors cannot be defeated and outlines the key rite of passage to reawakening the human spirit so that we may bring an end to the darkness and be recreated in the image of infinite consciousness. The full interview can be viewed here: https://www.outerlimitsradio.com/shunyamurti/

Animals—Unlike Humans—Never Disconnect from the Spirit of Nature - Shunyamurti Q&A

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 04:36:00 -0600

Do animals suffer? Shunyamurti answers a frequently asked question about cruelty to animals: Animals do not suffer the way humans suffer. Their connection with Mother Nature protects them and they need not be worried about—they are in the hands of God, as we all are.

The Unreal Self Cannot Know Real Love - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 08 Oct 2022 09:00:00 -0600

It is time to face the facts of life: You cannot make contact with anything unless you yourself are Real, and the entire project of the ego is to make contact with the imaginary. This world is a hologram, a simulation, an illusion—there is nothing out there. Letting go of belief in any and all self-images, self-concepts, identifications with the body or with the mind, or even with the heart, is the key to real validation and valid realization. This teaching was recorded on the morning of September 3, 2015.

The Lucid Dreamer Transforms the Dream - Shunaymurti Teaching

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti answers a series of questions on the practicality of peaceful resistance, the best method for winning the war on consciousness, and what we can do to quickly overcome this rolling apocalypse and return to a beautiful reality. This clip is taken from an interview with Ryan McCormick hosted on the Outer Limits of Inner Truth Podcast: https://www.outerlimitsradio.com/shunyamurti/

The Development of Moral and Spiritual Discernment - Shunyamurti Q&A

Tue, 04 Oct 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti addresses a series of questions about the nature of reality in this session from the Avadhuta Revolution retreat, offering clarifying responses to heartfelt inquiries, reminding us about the illusory nature of duality and how to find the highest frequency to transcend the state of the world.

The Unreal Self Cannot Know Real Love - Shunyamurti Teachings

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 09:00:00 -0600

The Lucid Dreamer Transforms the Dream - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 09:00:00 -0600

The One Self Has a Multiple Personality Disorder - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 24 Sep 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Are you tuned into all the stations of the C.R.O.S.S.--the past, present and the future? Shunyamurti explains how "teleo-vision"can take you to an understanding of the one consciousness that's functioning as all of the different holographic images within the simulation, and as soon as you recognize all of the available frequencies, the blissful enjoyment of the show begins.

Truth Will Electrocute the False - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 01:45:30 -0600

Shunyamurti answers a series of questions on how to attain real freedom by releasing false beliefs, what the world situation is here to teach us, and how to navigate the current crisis and achieve the optimal outcome for all. This clip is taken from an interview with Ryan McCormick hosted on the Outer Limits of Inner Truth Podcast: https://www.outerlimitsradio.com/shunyamurti/

It’s Not a Global Collapse, but a Quantum De-Collapse - Shunyamurti Q&A

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 05:06:12 -0600

The final moment is here. It is time for all souls to retire from the game of life, but eternal life is the final prize for those who can recognize the unconditional beauty of the moment as the handiwork of a higher power.

The Love/Hate Dialogues of Rilke - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 17 Sep 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti shares about the life and poetry of Rilke, introducing the double soul syndrome theory and the cause of the fragmentation that turned Rilke's life into poetry.

The Underlying Addiction That Creates All Our Suffering - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 09:00:00 -0600

The Matrix is unreality—it is illusion—and what is Real is beyond it. But to get beyond the illusion, we must let go of the belief in entities—the primary entity being the ego me—which means we have to give up our addiction to constant thinking that supports the illusion of the ego, justifying our existence with our minds and fantasies, and enter into Silence—that is the death of the ego—but the opening to eternal life, in the Real. Recorded on the evening of Thursday, march 17, 2011.

We Must Become Our Own Role Models - Shunyamurti Q&A

Tue, 13 Sep 2022 09:00:00 -0600

In this Q&A, Shunyamurti clarifies why the process of spiritual maturation is essential for the one who wills to serve the highest Truth. This ultimate rite of passage is the key to countering the chaos of the ego complex and embodying the wisdom that leads to bliss.

The Ego is the Phantom in Your Opera - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 09:01:00 -0600

I do not exist—and that is a fact. In this classic teaching, Shunyamurti helps us to recognize there is a belief in the illusion of an I—and all of the anxieties and fantasies that I entails. But if we just employ the practice of paying attention to the way we pay attention in meditation, there will ultimately be the realization that I Am.

You Can Own Nothing and Be Happy—if You Are Free! - Shunyamurti Teaching

Tue, 06 Sep 2022 01:26:03 -0600

We have all heard this prediction by the globalists: “You will own nothing and you will be happy.” Most people take this as a threat of total enslavement and impoverishment. Indeed, it may be meant that way. But if we understand the subtle paradoxical logic of the Mind of God (the real power underlying this world simulation), this is actually the ultimate blessing. It is a description of the state of the Avadhuta, one who has attained supreme freedom and total bliss.

You are invited to discover how to fulfill the ancient human yearning for infinite intelligence and power, not through being microchipped and subsumed in the computer cloud, but by joining this expansive noetic movement of transcendence of ego and entering into the glorious light of Absolute Spirit. Let us not only celebrate the coming of the Avadhutas: Be among the first to join the ranks of the truly free! In this retreat, we will focus on the rigorous practice necessary to shed the ego and attain the Supreme Realization in the shortest time possible.

Complexity is the Expression of Simplicity - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 03 Sep 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti shares the real situation we face at the end of Kali Yuga–we live in a world of dancing landscapes, and our ability to deal with these shifts is one of the secrets of life. How does one attain the accuracy to move within a dancing landscape? Accurate alignment with the laws of the universe will yield the power to achieve potency through purity—and the wisdom to achieve the ultimate aim—full empowerment!

Be Absorbed into the Silent Heart ~ Guided Meditation with Shunyamurti

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 03:03:03 -0600

Turn the attention to the Heart, into the core of your Being. Feel what it's like to be an embodiment of the Supreme Reality, where presence without a past abides.

Who Really Controls the World? - Shunyamurti Q&A

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 10:43:45 -0600

Shunyamurti reveals the real missing link! The fact is that we are in a cosmic divine drama and that God is the real directo–not evil, not the World Economic Forum members or Bill Gates or aliens or whatever is the deep state. But until we understand the nature of cosmic intelligence, we will only see part of it, and to get beyond the duality of good and evil, we have to approach this from the spiritual dimension of our being…

The Strange Itinerary of the Journey to Liberation - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 27 Aug 2022 10:10:09 -0600

Take the journey to Liberation! In this opening retreat teaching, Shunyamurti outlines a 7-stop itinerary to bring consciousness back to its true nature, from the flea market to a gourmet restaurant where we can get divinely drunk, to the 7-chakra bookstore, the diamond market, and then the ultimate treasure house, where all of the riches and wealth of our divine nature are stored, on to the Liberation Gate, and finally Freedom!

The Real Cannot Be Described - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 25 Aug 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti reminds us that “The death of the ego is not an easy matter.” But if you are willing to face the Truth and wanting to find stability in a fragmented world, the register of consciousness must shift from ego to soul to Spirit, bringing all fragments back into unity, in blissful surrender that cannot be described.

The Binary Construct of Good and Evil Obscures the Real - Shunyamurti Q&A

Tue, 23 Aug 2022 01:01:40 -0600

What caused Adam and Eve to fall and lose paradise? They ate a construct of duality and began comparing and making judgments–and that is what keeps us in a hell realm. To know the Truth, we must question all conventional assumptions about good and evil–and question that construct itself. This Q&A is an excerpt from the Journey to Jivan Mukti retreat.

Connect All the Dots of Death and Truth is Revealed - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Another empowering transmission in this series of spiritual emergency satsangs, Shunyamurti helps us to connect all the dots that bring us to a holistic understanding of what is real, a reminder that the current world crisis is actually a cleansing of consciousness, and that purifying our capacity to love is the only way to claim victory over all the engineered conflicts.

How to Greet Our Old Friend Death - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Meditation is about making friends with death–the death of the ego. If we can transform the ego's fear of death into Love, we will find passage to real Life.

Time is the Pulse of Eternity - Shunyamurti Q&A

Tue, 16 Aug 2022 01:58:42 -0600

What is Liberation? Shunyamurti answers an important question that reveals how to achieve complete liberation from the plane of illusion–and never look back.

Coherent Thought is a Bridge to Liberation - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Symbolic thinking and discernment are required to break free from the fabrication of the ego and rise to the highest Real, with love and wisdom to light the way.

The Whole Ocean is in Each Drop - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 06:18:21 -0600

The simple truth about reality is that we are all quantum waves in an infinite ocean of quantum potential. But the ego instead chooses to objectify itself, choosing a body floating in the ocean, rather than the ocean itself. But if we return to unity consciousness—the realization that we are all floating in this ocean of consciousness, and that ultimately we are all waves of the same ocean—a miraculous state of being that takes us to the bliss beyond objectification will become our quantum reality. Recorded on Thursday, August 20, 2009.

Liberation is Letting Go of All Ordeals - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 06 Aug 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti advises not to turn the metaphors of Liberation into obstacles along the path; choose the rational approach to Self-realization and see the Real as it is–the only ordeal is letting go all ordeals!

No Baggage, No Bondage: Abide as You Are - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 04 Aug 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti encourages us to create the ultimate joy by reaching the highest state–a silent mind–so you can be a lighthouse of peace and empowerment and help yourself and others to navigate these challenging times.

Awaken from the Nightmare the World Has Become - Shunyamurti Q&A

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 09:00:00 -0600

If the world is a dream–that is quickly becoming a nightmare–how can we awaken? Shunyamurti says we must dream a whole new world into being–by rising in truth, love, and consciousness.

Free Your Mind from Control by the Other - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Everyone is looking for peace—whether they know it or not. In this classic teaching, Shunyamurti shares how to cultivate an energy field of peace and power and pure presence, unalloyed by any conditioned thinking, and completely open to the spontaneity of the heart–and that’s when life becomes very interesting...Recorded on the evening of Thursday, February 21, 2013.

Conquer Death While the World is Dying ~ Shunyamurti Emergency Satsang Teaching

Fri, 22 Jul 2022 10:48:07 -0600

This is an excerpt from our inaugural Spiritual Emergency Satsang given by Shunyamurti.

Special Announcement: Shunyamurti is leading a New Series of Spiritual Emergency Satsangs Wednesdays at 5.30pm Costa Rica Time This is an experiment to find out your level of interest in receiving this kind of information and guidance. For an indefinite period, we will be hosting relatively weekly livestream satsangs for our Members on Wednesdays. Because of the dire situation most people on the planet will soon be facing—if they are not already—Shunyamurti has been asked to ramp up the intensity of the teachings to bring souls onto the direct pathless path to Liberation from the matrix. It is the duty of those who are awakened to offer service by remaining steadfastly in peace and equanimity during this time of extreme testing of the human spirit. May all Yogis become beacons of divine light and fearless compassion. Our function is to enable the tempest-tossed, confused, and frightened beings to take refuge in the tranquil and loving energy field of Absolute Consciousness. Shunyamurti’s focus is on the attainment of full realization of the Supreme Self. His frame of reference is that of radical nonduality. But he is open to speaking about practical matters of navigating your body icon through difficult circumstances. He is also open to addressing the signifance and implications of current events on the phenomenal plane.

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How to Prosper During This Engineered Destruction

Fri, 22 Jul 2022 10:44:03 -0600

How do we maintain a state of peace and prosper during this engineered destruction? Shunyamurti shares his perspective on how to navigate life from a state of higher consciousness, even as the world situation worsens.

All Constructs Are Only Myths - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 21 Jul 2022 09:02:00 -0600

Since there is no matter and no space and no time in any true sense, what do we mean by a universe? Is the whole world consciousness, or is that also a myth? To find the answers to these questions, Shunyamurti reminds us to let go of every mythological construct that we have been holding on to, so all can dissolve into the Absolute Truth of the Ultimate Real. Recorded on the evening of Thursday, November 5, 2009

Learn to Download the Power of Mastery - Shunyamurti Q&A

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 09:00:00 -0600

How can I learn to trust myself, to become a trustworthy thinker and a true leader? Shunyamurti answers this important question to inspire and encourage truth in leadership by accessing the Supreme Intelligence and using the power of wisdom to transform the world.

Coherent Thought is a Bridge to Liberation - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 16 Jul 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Symbolic thinking and discernment are required to break free from the fabrication of the ego and rise to the highest Real, with love and wisdom to light the way.

The Supernal Light Shines in Silence - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 09:00:00 -0600

We are Divine Light. Shunyamurti reminds us that in order to remember this, we must open the windows of perception by silencing the mind that obscures the highest dimensions of light with language. Recorded on the afternoon of Tuesday, October 20, 2009.

Purity of Heart Overcomes All Pain - Shunyamurti Q&A

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:00:00 -0600

A student asks Shunyamurti how to protect the innocence of the inner child in a world of pain. Let innocence lead the way to the pure power of purity of Heart that comes from realizing pure, innocent Presence, without I and without other, and without any constructs or operating systems that determine a world.

Get Out of Time Before You’re Out of Time - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 09:00:00 -0600

It is time to leave the ego behind! Shunyamurti says it is time to shift from understanding to innerrstanding--from a place of wisdom and love--to overstanding--so we can take the highest trajectory to Liberation!

Peace Comes After Uniting all the Pieces - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Do you truly want to live a serene, peaceful, implacable life--or would that be boring to your ego? Shunyamurti explains the definition of Shanti, the peace that you are, and invites us to achieve the natural state from which the inner radiance emerges by removing the ego's veils of vexation that come from a lifetime of pretending to be a projection.

The Ego is a Non-Player Character in the Simulation - Shunyamurti Teaching

Tue, 05 Jul 2022 07:54:39 -0600

All egos are NPCs! If you want to win the game and be liberated from the matrix, stop believing you are a separate being with a burden of karma, and explode the dream open to reveal the light that shines through the simulation.

We Must Face the Death of Reason—and Cause its Resurrection - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 02 Jul 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti speaks to the self-redemption of consciousness: using reason to get out of the irrational intellect and understand the Truth that reveals the Real.

Language Divides Us from the Real - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 09:00:00 -0600

We live within the illusions of a limited state of mind. Shunyamurti reminds us that all systems of thought are inadequate, and identification with thought is the limitation of your unlimited potential; we must stop identifying with the "I" and stop the power struggle between this false "I" and the "Others" it creates, so we can truly understand Reality and experience the bliss of Infinity. Recorded on the evening of Thursday, December 3, 2009.

How to Integrate Dharma, Reason, and Crazy Wisdom - Shunyamurti Q&A

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 07:57:50 -0600

Do you live by the laws of the divine? Shunyamurti explains Dharma, divine law, which, when applied to the ego, reveals the relationship to the soul and a love for intelligence that brings one to the higher states of crazy wisdom and divine love that lead to miracles–and you become an instrument of infinite consciousness.

We Must Learn to Appreciate God’s Sense of Humor - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 25 Jun 2022 09:00:00 -0600

How could a good God allow a world this mad to come into being? Shunyamurti proposes a theory: the universe, and all of the systems within it, are inherently structured as a joke. Can you find the humor that grasps and integrates all the sides of reality into one?

Love and Wisdom Must Replace Aggression and Paranoia - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Sat Yoga is the practice to reach Liberation in this life–because you never know how long life is going to be. Are you prepared to be liberated from your ego now? Shunyamurti reminds us that the ego must die, and its loyalty to the family system along with it, in order to take the journey to supreme liberation, and be forever free.

Attachment to the Past is the Obstacle to Liberation - Shunyamurti Q&A

Tue, 21 Jun 2022 07:40:16 -0600

Q: How does one let go of anger towards a father or mother that has judgements and says hurtful things about their beliefs of one’s faith or love towards God plus how to keep unconditional love even in the middle of a war?

The Ego Has Become Psychotic - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Every ego is a slave to its censor, the complex of contradiction itself and the inverse of Liberation. Shunyamurti exposes the psychosis of the ego, that it is both solipsistic in its own world and simultaneously projecting a Big Other that is holding consciousness in a hostage position. To release the power of this projection, align with the superconscious freedom of the Self that is One without any other.

The Soul Must Emerge From the Ego - Shunyamurti Q&A

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 08:11:17 -0600

What does it take to shift from the lower energies of the ego to the higher frequencies of the soul? Shunyamurti answers a seeker’s question with and a key point–a new mode of thinking must emerge in order to undergo this metamorphosis from caterpillar consciousness to butterfly freedom.

We Suffer From a Confusion of Levels of Mind - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 11 Jun 2022 06:33:04 -0600

Shift from the unconscious to the superconscious! By understanding the 7 levels of Psychic Energies that Shunyamurti presents in this teaching module, you can transform your traumas into wisdom and change the trajectory of your destiny.

You Must Think What You Cannot Imagine - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 09 Jun 2022 08:04:00 -0600

Are we responsible for our actions or are they predetermined? Shunyamurti answers a core question about free will and predetermination—and reminds us to take the Upper Death Drive to true freedom. Recorded on Tuesday, August 25, 2009.

The Laughter of the Avatar - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 28 May 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti encourages us to go rogue! Since there are no rules in Higher Consciousness, let's in-joy the lightness of being free, claim our right to a divine life, and join in the laughter in Liberation.

Zen and the Art of Fearlessness - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 26 May 2022 09:00:00 -0600

In this classic teaching, Shunyamurti tells a Zen story with a powerful message about freedom from fear and being fiercely equanimous in a world where inner and outer attacks run rampant. Claim the power to be non-violent and non-reactive by being grounded in the Supreme.

The Most Good You Can Do for the World - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 21 May 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Don't be a slave to the social order! The only way to conquer oppression is with higher level intelligence that doesn't just trust the science--or the elite--but brings the clarity that is the key to freedom and victory.

Awaken to Eternity - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 19 May 2022 09:00:00 -0600

In this classic teaching, Shunyamurti encourages us to come out of the trance of time and space and ego and matter, and awaken to the fact that all of this is Eternal Consciousness playing a game with itself in infinite forms reflecting the infinite beauty, and love, and creativity of the Cosmic Intelligence.

The Fundamentals of Absolute Alchemy - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 14 May 2022 08:58:00 -0600

Shunyamurti introduces the nine parallel spectra of sameness and difference to help us find the madhyamaka of mind that fuses all states of consciousness into the Mind of God--overcoming all sameness and difference by bringing eternal life into time. This is the alchemy of Sat Yoga.

All Knowledge is Already Within You - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 12 May 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti shares that Sat Yoga's main purpose is to inform those who are seeking Truth that Truth is available and is within you already. You don't have to do a lot of exploration outside, but instead turn the attention inward to the endless, infinite ocean of Truth, Knowledge, Beauty, Love, and all of the qualities that make human life worth living.

Madness Can Resolve the Double Bind - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 07 May 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti helps us to understand how the laws of karma operate (only) within the realm of Maya, and how to accept the mad congruence between destiny and fate--by not using mad-ductive reasoning and maintaining the peace of radical (and sometimes non-rational) acceptance.

Break the Ego Shell and Be Free of Fear - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 05 May 2022 08:58:40 -0600

Shunyamurti identifies the tragic condition of the devolution of humanity: we have accepted a false self-image given to us by the unconscious minds of our parents and by society as a whole—hence we hide our true nature. But beyond the ego identity lies the Real—so break the ego’s shell and allow yourself to be seen as what you truly are.

The Kundalini Map of Consciousness - With Radha Ma

Wed, 04 May 2022 07:56:52 -0600

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Activate the Poetics of Politics: From Anarchy to Sophiocracy - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 30 Apr 2022 08:23:02 -0600

Don’t be governed by disorder! The mad state of the world is actually made of mind, and it’s the relationship of love and law that moves us from a state of anarchy to a sophiocracy, where supreme understanding of the infinite meaning-full-ness overcomes rules.

Freedom is Clarity - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 28 Apr 2022 09:15:23 -0600

What is the third eye? Shunyamurti explains that the first 'I' is an illusion; the second 'I' is a ghost; and the third 'I' leads to true freedom, true bliss, and true love.

The Nature of the Ego and its Transcendence - With Radha Ma

Wed, 27 Apr 2022 09:52:39 -0600

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Prepare for a Theo-Nuclear Explosion - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 23 Apr 2022 07:52:48 -0600

Shunyamurti instructs us on how to use Ek Om's razor to cut away the purity of Awareness from the particularity of identification, so that only the peace and presence of the Supreme remains.

It’s All a Giant Misunderstanding - Shunyamurti Teaching

Tue, 19 Apr 2022 08:57:36 -0600

Every ego feels misunderstood—this is a universal point which Shunyamurti addresses in a Dao Book Group Q&A session—but the real problem is you don't understand yourself! Shunyamurti helps us to understand what can only really be understood once the ego's algorithm has been terminated and the true Self emerges.

The Fourth Dharma Will Transform Reality - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 16 Apr 2022 09:00:00 -0600

We are swimming in a sea of signifiers, none of which can hold the value of reality. Only the true Dharma can meet the God-standard. Shunyamurti references the Mahabharata (film) to shed light on the fourth Dharma that remains through every Yuga and every kalpa, the non-Dharma that is the nature of the Beyond.

It is Time to Resurrect Your Immortal Spirit - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 08:26:08 -0600

In this Holy Week teaching, Shunyamurti encourages the sacrificing of the ego so the true Self can live. By silencing the ego-mind, the matrix of maya and the illusion of mortality disappears, and the chosen land of liberated consciousness becomes one's holy state of mind.

Freedom vs. Antidisestablishmentarianism - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 09 Apr 2022 07:44:07 -0600

Don’t let the antidisestablishmentarianism of the media keep you from questioning the church of pseudo-science! In these extreme times, one must question everything, especially one's own perspective within the contradiction of narratives that are contributing to the chaos of the current world order.

Turning the Tide in the Ultimate Battle for the World - Shunyamurti Teaching

Fri, 08 Apr 2022 07:37:38 -0600

In the final Dao book group, Shunyamurti reminds us that we have the power to transform and transcend, and that the power of the Dao will help us to navigate these times with Truth that brings victory in the ultimate battle.

Praise the Holy Grail of Indeterminacy - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 02 Apr 2022 09:00:00 -0600

In this teaching, Shunyamurti offers step by step guidance on how to deploy your spiritual intelligence so a harmonious, superorganismic potentiality can emerge to solve the problem of complexity in a world of "evol" that is ever-evolving into Love.

Love is Not All You Need: You Also Need to Think Clearly - Shunyamurti Teaching

Wed, 30 Mar 2022 09:05:00 -0600

"What do you say to people who argue for their brand of religion being the only brand that is valid and therefore validate inter-religious strife?" Shunyamurti responds to Hasan Azad's question with a conversation on the false religion of scientism and the cosmic religion of love, inviting us all to become scientists of cosmic consciousness-the only way to validate the Truth.

The Dao Caused the Big Bang…and Will Soon Bring on the Big Crunch - Shunyamurti Teaching

Tue, 29 Mar 2022 08:06:23 -0600

As we come closer to the Singularity, what is important is practice. In the opening teaching of the third Dao of the Final Days book group gathering, Shunyamurti reveals the naked truth about the real Singularity and the preparations we must make for the arrival of our destiny-returning to the Dao that was before the Big Bang.

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The Eternal Return of Spiritual Anarchy - Shunyamurti teaching

Sat, 26 Mar 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti introduces a talk by Dan Smith about Nietzsche, giving a colorful overview of his life and the development of his personal philosophy that led him to divine madness--in an insane asylum–and his understanding of the dialectic of the drives, which takes off from where Heigel left off. This is a followup to the morning teaching, The Dialectic of the Drives.

The Pitfall of the Postmodern Peter Panic - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:00:00 -0600

It has become obvious that we are living through the increasingly insane times that come with the downfall of social order. In this interview with Hasan Azad, Shunyamurti addresses the theme of sanity vs. insanity, giving a full perspective on the psychotic state of the consciousness that is ruling the world and offering insight into the cause of mass psychosis, disempowerment as a result of disinformation, the engineered collapse of social order–and the merciful end that is underway.

The State of the World and the Path to Freedom - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 19 Mar 2022 09:27:59 -0600

We are in the ultimate battle for our souls, as well as for our freedom and our lives. To win this, we must increase our level of intelligence and activate our latent paranormal powers. That means we must leave behind the obsolete ego-mind and attain the innermost levels of the Self. The Core Self is within us now, and when we attune to That, we feel completely free and unbound, and able to download amazing insights. Knowledge is power. If you understand what is happening now in the world as an awesome opportunity rather than a threat, pushing us to higher consciousness, then you will profit greatly from the end of the current world age. This investment offers far more return than bitcoin. But the cost is letting go of all chosen forms of self-enslavement, including fear itself.

Warning: Yoga Will Take Away Your Joy of Suffering - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 17 Mar 2022 09:00:00 -0600

How can we cultivate a state of peace in these times of great suffering? Shunyamurti reminds us the source of suffering is our desire to sustain the illusion, but overcoming suffering simply requires transcending the I-thought, by going beyond the mind to gain the wisdom of the heart.

The World is Our Koan - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 12 Mar 2022 08:19:26 -0600

This inaugural evening of The Dao of the Final Days book group with Shunyamurti is full of surprise revelations! The deeper meaning-morenessess and gems of insight within the powerful pages of this book, including the 7 types of Dao-scourse, are discussed, and Shunyamurti's recitation of the poems transmits an elevated vibrational frequency that is felt in the heart, outside of being-time, helping us travel to the inter-dao-mensional reality into the realm of absolute non-dao-ality.

A System Built on Lawlessness and Lies Cannot Last - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 09:00:00 -0600

This is an excerpt from the opening night of the (We’re Not) Living in a Dying World retreat. Shunyamurti unpacks the retreat theme, revealing the 7 symptoms of a dying world and the escape hatch—realizing that infinite consciousness is the power to change the future.

The Way of Fire, the Way of Love, and the Way of Emptiness - Shunyamurti Teaching

Tue, 08 Mar 2022 09:02:39 -0600

Shunyamurti reveals the Dao of Sat Yoga and how this can help us and guide us amidst the chaos of current world events, if one of the three pathways to Liberation--the Fire of Wisdom, Love and Emptiness--are chosen and realized.

How Can Jekyll Eliminate Hyde? - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 03 Mar 2022 07:41:27 -0600

Shunyamurti tells the tale of the creation of the modern ego–and its neurotic cycles of guilt and goodness that lead to the creation of a Jekyll and Hyde consciousness–and the way back to guilt-free goodness.

Shiva Comes Now at the Darkest Moment in History - Shunyamurti Teaching

Mon, 28 Feb 2022 08:15:49 -0600

Mahashivaratri is a celebration of the darkest night of the year, when Shiva comes to bring the Divine Light that ends the illusion! Shunyamurti reminds us that in this dark night of history, when all hope seems lost, it is more important than ever to realize the freedom and power of Ultimate Consciousness, by shattering the illusion with infinite love.

What’s Wrong With Your Operating System - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 26 Feb 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti reveals the 7 symptoms of the ego’s operating system and how to treat these from the level of the soul–and raise your ordinary/extraordinary quotient to infinity–and beyond!

How Can Jekyll Eliminate Hyde? - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 09:00:00 -0600

The Secret of Accurate Practice - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti shares from Vajra Speech by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, a nondual Zen teaching about the practice of effortlessness and the true state of accomplishment: one must trust the consequence of karma, the pain of bliss and the non importance of experience.

Career Opportunity—Interdimensional Travel Required - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti reminds us that we are at the end of days, and this is the last opportunity to leave behind the ego, so that we may fulfill our function as authentic avatars and illuminate the world!

The Algorithm Has No Rhyme or Reason - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 12 Feb 2022 09:00:00 -0600

The Kali Yuga ego is a basic algorithm based on ignorance and lack that has no control of its own destiny. Shunyamurti gives the way out of this trap: a return to superconsciousness, where real wisdom and power prevail, and where the true Singularity abides.

The Heart is Ripped Apart by Divergent Drives - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti explains that the ultimate result of the spiritual dialectical process is Self-Realization. This can only be accomplished when the divergent drives of the thesis of the ego are overtaken by the convergent drives of the antithetical soul and translated to the ultimate level as the synthesis of Spirit.

The Human Spirit is Rising—Now Our Divine Spirit Must Be Activated - Shunyamurti Teaching

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 08:37:21 -0600

Shunyamurti gives a timely call to action to raise the vibrational frequency of the planet in order to counteract the warring state of Kali Yuga and the current world order: "The human spirit is now rising in the world, awakening to the nature of the situation on the phenomenal plane. And thus, the ruling elite are in a panic mode, and they recognize that they cannot prevent the tide from turning against them and from there being mass arrests for genocide and other crimes against humanity. And because of this they have to divert attention very quickly, and since they cannot prevent their own populations from rising against them in the West they will use Russian missiles to do it for them and Chinese weapons of mass destruction. And its for this reason for playing this last card that they have built massive underground cities with stockpiles of food and they are beginning to move into this next phase in which there will be massive destruction by other means than is currently happening. And this acceleration of events will have many implications because when the war goes kinetic, it will happen in space, under water, under the ground, and it will destroy everything in most parts of the world, and because the war will take place in cyberspace as well, it will cut communications, and it will disrupt every system and it will stop the import of food and fuel and other supplies. So there reverberation will strike everywhere. We must be prepared spiritually and psychologically...." Shunyamurti reads from Shunya Sampadane: The Main Scripture of Veerashaivas by Linga Raju

Blast Out of Your Normy Stupor! - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti reminds us that beyond the duality that produces demand and desire, there is freedom! But it has been sacrificed to a system bent on domestication and destruction, and we must break free from the prison of limited consciousness to reveal the wild ecstasy of our sovereignty. May the freedom of the wild ones reign supreme!

Don’t Hide Your Self in a Suitcase - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 29 Jan 2022 09:02:00 -0600

Shunyamurti uses a modern-day metaphor to helps us to unpack the ego's baggage and discover the cosmos within: the ego is the Self in a suitcase--a monad that is also a nomad--and you must unpack your ego's defenses and allow the ecstasy to unfold.

Don’t Let the System Steal Your Power - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 09:01:00 -0600

Shunyamurti reveals how to break free from the system that controls the world, a system that cultivates lack and promotes dependency; we must cut through this systemic illusion to remember who we are, to forget who we are not, to re-gain the Shakti Power that comes from Pure Presence, and re-claim the system of the Real that brings divine union and bliss.

Blessed are the Peacemakers: The Greatness of Thich Nhat Hanh - Shunyamurti Teaching

Wed, 26 Jan 2022 09:00:55 -0600

Shunyamurti offers an inspirational and moving tribute in honor of Thich Nhat Hanh’s divine journey through this world, in the service of peace, joy and harmony, reminding us that our true nature never dies.

The Real is Beyond Belief - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 22 Jan 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti describes advaya: no beliefs can capture Reality. If you free yourself from all beliefs, you will be free of suffering and attune to the real of nonduality. But this is not to be taken as a belief--do the experiment and discover for yourself what is True and what is Real.

Dare to Dance with the Goddess - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:00:00 -0600

In honor of Shakti and with reverence for Shiva, Shunyamurti explains the principles of Reality and the key to understanding Nature: one must be willing to dance with Creation to transcend the trance of existence and return the world to a divine state of play.

You Must Decide Your Destiny Now - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 15 Jan 2022 08:09:36 -0600

Transformation is a choice, and it is time to choose: the world of the ego, the loka of the soul, or the realm of Spirit--but you must first open your heart and mind to the total freedom to decide your destiny. Shunyamurti encourages us to choose the best of all possible worlds, and get off at the junction of the Singularity, the meeting point of matter and antimatter, where you meet the other side of you.

The Truth is Buried Under Layers of Trauma - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 08 Jan 2022 08:41:31 -0600

Shunyamurti speaks to the real of Love, the key to reaching the Real; all ego's are traumatized in the imaginary register of consciousness and must re-discover real love that dissolves the ego, and the self-arising wisdom that comes from wandering within the matrix, in order to transcend the dream, and to realize the great laughter of Liberation.

Kali Yuga is Now Reaching Its Climax - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 09:57:00 -0600

Shunyamurti introduces a series of short clips on Kali Yuga, outlining the fallen journey of consciousness through cyclical time, to the present moment in Kali Yuga, in which all sign point to the end times, which is really time to return to the timeless--but this can only be done through a shift in consciousness that will reveal the Truth--in time.

The Self is an Infinite Sheet of Cookie Dough - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 30 Dec 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti uses the example of an infinite sheet of cookie dough to explain the ego’s sense of separation from its sweet center, and its baked-in feelings of hatred, fear and envy; harmonious reunion with our infinite essence is the secret ingredient to fully cooking a half-baked consciousness.

Welcome the Magi—Not Superegos - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 25 Dec 2021 09:00:00 -0600

In this Christmas Eve teaching, Shunyamurti shares the Word that is the light of God’s Mind, reminding us to give the gift of love without projection and we can receive the gift of clear consciousness in return.

Shiva and Santa Claus Are One - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 23 Dec 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Santa Claus is the ultimate archetype--and the real present that one receives under the Tree of Life is divine presence, and divine love, the gift that keeps on giving. But we must be willing to forgive everyone for everything, letting go of the I-thought and any action, to realize real Presence, the presence of the Real.

How to Produce the Nectar of Immortality - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 18 Dec 2021 09:00:00 -0600

In the opening teaching of the retreat, Shunyamurti shares the secret to producing Amrita, the divine nectar of immortality that is the golden light of God-consciousness. If we want to experience the magical intoxication of infinite consciousness, we must eliminate the boundary between life and death and fearlessly embark on the potent path into the unknown.

Desire Ends in Fulfillment - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti explains the way out of suffering is by going beyond the ego's circuit of desires (which ultimately can never be fulfilled), by recognizing the illusory nature of the game that produces highs and lows in life, and by stabilizing in the wisdom of the heart, the source of power and peace that passes understanding.

Take the Path of Freedom - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 11 Dec 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Description: Shunyamurti reminds us that all karma is being settled at this time; we must go beyond the conflicts and chaos of the ego and its environment, and transcend the chaos of these final days in order to be a refuge for others and redream a new world.

A Tale of Two Siddhis: Return to Light and Awareness - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 09 Dec 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti references a classic:This is the best of times and the worst of times, and we must master these times with the two siddhis of awareness and light, and return the power of Liberation to all souls.

Ferment Gnosis into the Wisdom Wine of Power - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 04 Dec 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti introduces Sat Yoga: Principles and Practice, a life-changing programs that will answer all of your questions about psycho-spiritual development. Shunyamurti’s revolutionary insights into the structure and dynamics of consciousness are clearly explained and illustrated in this 7-module course. You will be guided step-by-step to ever higher levels of Self-realization. It will enable you to uncover the obstacles to raising your Kundalini energy and to abiding in deep samadhi. You will be inspired to take a quantum leap on your inner journey to the Supreme Self. Designed to free your mind from all its false beliefs, this dramatic unveiling of the secrets of the soul will awaken you to your highest potential.

How the Dark Forces Can Be Overthrown - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 09:08:02 -0600

Shunyamurti shares that the real game of thrones is about higher consciousness; one must claim the divine right to sit on the lotus throne, the crown chakra that can only be reached through silence, which in turn offers the shakti power that annihilates all lower forms of identification and the supreme power to be liberated from the illusion.

The World is the Ego’s Projection - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 27 Nov 2021 09:00:00 -0600

In this last phase of Kali Yuga, it is essential for Sat Yogis to realize the Truth now. But the ego-mind obscures the truth of what we are with the projections and defenses that arise from a lifetime of suffering. We must first realize our suffering is phenomenal, so we can overcome our traumas and stop the mind that suffers--and then the True Self takes over and the Truth of Reality is realized.

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We Still Have an Abundance of Blessings - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 25 Nov 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Recorded on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 2009. Shunyamurti reminds us that this is a time to give thanks to the community, to Nature, and to the Source from which all thanks springs. In these trying times, there are shortages of every kind (but especially love), that we must fill with the infinite abundance that is cultivated when we gather together in Truth, so we can manifest a harmonious world of gratitude and beatitude.

Conquer Death While You Can - Shunyamurti Teachings

Sat, 20 Nov 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Prepare to reach the deathless state! In this time of sudden death, it is of extreme importance to recognize the immortality of consciousness—before the body dies—so we can transcend the plane of mortality and be reborn as immortal, deathless Spirit. This is the secret of immortality that Shunyamurti reveals in this teaching, a precursor to our next 5-day retreat, Amrita Shakti: The Potent Path of Pure Delight. In this retreat, you will gain the capacity to free yourself from fear and ignorance, and enjoy the bliss of divine love and Liberation.

Don’t Fall Asleep at the Wheel of Karma - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 18 Nov 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti presents the seriousness of the situation: Reality is a high stakes game, and if we want victory over the dark side, it's all or nothing! We must unravel our patterns of self-destruction, recognize the dead end of the ego, and surrender to the light, so we can awaken the wisdom and strength to overcome suffering--destiny is in the hands of the awakened. This teaching was recorded on the morning of March 28, 2017 at the Sat Yoga Ashram, Costa Rica.

The Situation is Hopeless, But Unreal - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 13 Nov 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti offers a koan on consciousness and the logic of the transcendence of worlds; reading again from The Supreme Source, this class reminds us to let go of the mind, let go of all methods, to let go of the desire for Liberation, and ultimately to let go of the you who thinks there's anything to let go of--and just be in your natural state (before you had an ego).

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The Only Way to Gain Our Freedom - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 09:00:00 -0600

In this classic Sat Yoga Institute teaching, Shunyamurti reminds us of our true nature as gods and goddesses of this Cosmic Dream. It is our duty as such to be free of fear and desire, and to live blissfully in the realm of freedom. Recorded on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 1, 2009.

Reality is Not What it Seems - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Sat Yoga is a wisdom school, a school of transformation in which intelligence development is paramount to understanding our ability to attune to higher consciousness and receive the energetic transmissions which grant us the knowledge, and therefore the freedom, to realize the true Reality--now is the moment when the window of opportunity is open for all who wish to leave the old world of the ego behind and enter the portal into the unknown...

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You Are Good, True, and Beautiful - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 04 Nov 2021 09:00:00 -0600

In this classic teaching, Shunyamurti shares the three powers of Truth, Goodness and Beauty (from the mantra Satyam Shivam Sundaram) that are awakened when one dedicates their life and practice to finding these attributes with in oneself. This is the power to overcome the shadow, and bring a world of light, beauty, and goodness back into manifestation. Recorded on the evening of Thursday, August 26, 2010.

Re-Weave the Fabric of Reality - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 23 Oct 2021 09:00:00 -0600

In this module teaching, Shunyamurti outlines the egoic behaviors used to sustain a false sense of self; we must destabilize the ego by deconstructing our destructive patterns if we want to escape the ego's nightmare and dream a new Reality.

Escape From the Matrix Now! - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 21 Oct 2021 09:00:00 -0600

You Can’t Trust the Science, or Religion, or Your Mind - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 16 Oct 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti outlines the fall of legitimate authority and the rise of a nihilistic mentality that has taken over the world with the false doctrine of materialism; in order to be free of the bondage of illegitimate authority, we must remember that we are active participants in this great creation, and we must create a new world order based on higher consciousness and, love, truth and freedom.

Nisargadatta’s Final Breakthrough - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti shares from Nisargadatta's last book of teachings, "Consciousness and the Absolute''. A self-realized being sees the world and all that arises as unreal; one must find out what is real by proving the unreality of the ego, by detaching from the ego's role and letting go into Liberation--this is especially important at the end of Kali Yuga, where the opportunity to be free to be the Self or to be reborn into a body-mind being is of supreme importance.

The Portal to Freedom is Now Open - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 09 Oct 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti reveals that the real knot to resolve is an ego that has been betrayed by a loveless world and must now take the risk of ego death to find the secret of spiritual power and enter the portal to freedom!

The Secret Ingredient of Spiritual Power - Satyoga.org

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 09:00:00 -0600

In this deeply reflective teaching, Shunyamurti reveals that the spiritual path is one of remorse and humility, which brings peace and purity--and the capacity to silence the mind.

Atone by Attuning to the One - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 02 Oct 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti draws a map of realization, bringing together the Jewish Day of Atonement, the attunement of the soul, and at-one-ment with the Self, as a step by step guide in the trajectory of Realization, reminding us that wisdom and devotion are the keys to Liberation.

Win the Battle for Salvation - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 09:19:02 -0600

In this classic teaching from the Sat Yoga Institute, Shunyamurti offers practical wisdom to find the way out of suffering: we must aspire to lift our consciousness out of the ego-mind and ascend into the divine mind, gaining the power of the Supreme to win the battle for the salvation of the soul.

Integrate Your Inner Shaman, Yogi, and Sage - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 25 Sep 2021 08:33:00 -0600

Shunyamurti explains the origins of shamanism, its contemporary role in society, and its relationship to the yogic path, particularly that of Sat Yoga, in which the quest of breaking through to the Absolute Mind is made through meditation rather than mind-altering medicines.

Give Attention to the Inner Self and Be Transformed - Shunyamurti Teaching

Wed, 22 Sep 2021 08:12:00 -0600

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A classic teaching from the Sat Yoga Institute in which Shunyamurti addresses purity on many levels, from purity of lifestyle to purity of mind to purity of spirit; when we shed the impurities of the ego, when the mind is pure and silent, and when the attention is directed inward--to the ultimate source of purity--that is when Liberation is achieved.

How to Gain the Potency of Total Consciousness - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 08:11:00 -0600

Shunyamurti begins by encouraging the sangha (both in local space and virtual space) to use every opportunity to develop our powers of consciousness so we can make use of our supernatural resources to transcend the dark times ahead. He then elaborates on a previous morning teaching, using the journey of Purusha and Prakriti, to help us understand the reality and the possibilities of ascension from matter to Spirit.

Choose Your Future: Demonic or Divine - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 04 Sep 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti outlines the three ranges on the consciousness spectrum we are now left with: from divinized to humanized to demonized. Now is the time to re-connect to Source Power, recharge our energetic batteries and re-divinize consciousness!

God’s Ultimate Blessing Is Being Granted - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 28 Aug 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti offers a cosmic perspective on global annihilation, reminding us that the end of the world is the ultimate blessing, because the final act reveals the Singularity.

Restore Your Freedom of Consciousness - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 21 Aug 2021 08:50:25 -0600

Shunyamurti exposes the ego's original sin: identifying with signifiers passed down by the family system--and staying loyal to that system. We must leave the world of egoic identification that was created by others, and bring to light a new world that is no longer enslaved by signs, but based on freedom, redemption and transcendence.

You Can Bring About Miraculous Healings - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 14 Aug 2021 09:00:00 -0600

How do we heal the inner child that has been traumatized by a lifetime of misidentification and defenses? Shunyamurti encourages us to explore this miraculous consciousness that we have been gifted, and to recognize its power and its potential to offer love, to heal ourselves, and to help others.

The One Maneuver that Transcends the Mind - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 12 Aug 2021 07:37:56 -0600

In this classic teaching, Shunyamurti reminds us of our true nature--the blissful, love-ful, peaceful Presence that we have lost through egoic separation, but that can be found again through unity consciousness.

Don't Be A Stranger to Your Self - Shunyamurti Teaching

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 09:00:00 -0600

In this classic teaching, Shunyamurti outlines the narratives that arise within every ego, and the ultimate understanding required to navigate the heroic journey into unknown.

Weave the Golden Braid that Binds to God - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 31 Jul 2021 09:00:00 -0600

The metaphor of the Golden Braid is well-known in esoteric traditions; Shunyamurti weaves together the three strands that lead to freedom from the ego: love for the Supreme, yearning to know, and dispassion or detachment from the world as we know it.

Be Faithful to the Ultimate Event - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 31 Jul 2021 08:42:55 -0600

Get Out of Your Ego’s Comfort Zone - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 24 Jul 2021 08:56:55 -0600

What is Realization? To realize the Real, one must get out of the comfort zone of the mortal body and embody the eternal realization of divine consciousness. Shunyamurti reads from "Thus Spake Ramana."

Suffering is Unnecessary - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 08:16:21 -0600

Shunyamurti addresses a question that is asked time and time again, "How do I do it? How does one reach Liberation?" He answers by read excerpts from Muruganur's "The Shining of My Lord", a collection of poem and aphorisms about the process of attaining Self-Realization written by a student of Sri Ramana Maharshi.

Silence the Mental Chatter - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 10 Jul 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti lays down a foundational understanding of the path of the Sat Yoga, explaining several of the different paths that lead to the same goal: the Silence of Sat Chit Ananda.

The Path of Gnostic Love - Satyoga.org

Sat, 03 Jul 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti invites us to ruminate on the Real Self—with devotion, divine love, and nonduality—the work and play of Self-realization that brings healing and joy.

Your Potential is Infinite - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 26 Jun 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti begins this powerful teaching with a question: Where do you wish to abide for eternity? The moment has arrived to choose your destiny.

The Source is Both Personal and Impersonal - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 19 Jun 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti addresses the question of the reality of God and the importance of cultivating an authentic relationship to God that is both personal and impersonal--in order to realize that God, the Self, is the only true Reality.

Connect to the Infinite Mind - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 12 Jun 2021 07:23:23 -0600

Shunyamurti offers insight into the maps and modules of reality, helping us to understand that divine intelligence is the source of this dream reality. Now is the moment to awaken to that intelligence that is our own consciousness, to be the solution we are seeking, so we can re-dream this world that is in danger of extinction.

The 4 Discourses of the Dao: Zhuangzi Meets Lacan - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 05 Jun 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti offers advice on the Tao of speaking with others, a four-level exploration of where Zhuangzi meets Lacan(zi), called: The 4 Te Tiscourses.

God is the Game Changer - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 29 May 2021 09:21:23 -0600

Shunyamurti speaks about the concept of the “game changer” and how it applies to the spiritual path. The ego, like a machine, is controlled by drives that are destined to fail, and the only way to "change the game" and have the chance to succeed is with Love, and that’s just the beginning…

Transcending Trauma, Realizing Truth - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 22 May 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti speaks to transcending trauma through an alchemical process: Face the dark shadow energy and bring it to light through the healing power of love, allowing the wounded ego to die in the fire of transformation, and the true healer to be reborn.

The Superposition of World and God - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 15 May 2021 09:00:00 -0600

In this beautiful morning teaching, Shunyamurti explains how we are living in two dimensions simultaneously - the relative and the Absolute - and that now is the moment to use our intelligence and free will to choose the highest reality, Liberation over illusion, in order to bring the light of the Real to the dark dimension of the unreal.

Enter the Silence of the Heart - Guided Meditation with Shunyamurti

Thu, 13 May 2021 07:44:40 -0600

Shunyamurti guides this short meditation to accelerate a shift into higher consciousness; relax into your center, let go of thought, be present without intention, and discover a state of inner silence in which it becomes possible to attune to the highest vibrational frequency of consciousness.

Divine Madness is the Means of Liberation - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 08 May 2021 09:21:08 -0600

In this excerpt from a White Magic retreat teaching, Shunyamurti shares the wisdom of the Orphic mystery schools, using the examples of magic, muses and divine madness to help us to understand the journey from ego self to archetypal self, and the soul's capacity for redemption by raising its vibrational level of consciousness.

Bring the World to a Blissful Conclusion - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 01 May 2021 07:55:29 -0600

Shunyamurti addresses the big picture, giving an overarching context for the current state of the world and the transformational imperative to rise in consciousness. He connects the dots on what is necessary to awaken the world: to reconnect to the Absolute.

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Freedom Means No Illusions - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 24 Apr 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Healing is the result of three elements: Power, Truth, and Love. In this teaching, Shunyamurti helps us understand how to attain complete healing through the understanding that everything one perceives is a projection, and that both the good and bad must be retracted to return to wholeness.

The Transubstantiation of Trauma - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 17 Apr 2021 09:00:00 -0600

In answer to the quintessential question of all seekers--why can we not reach silence in practice,and find freedom if this is our essence?--Shunyamurti combines Ramana's teaching on Chit Jada Granthi with Lacan's Borromean Knot to create a new kundalini map of consciousness to help us transcend the knot of suffering, and ascend from the trauma of the unreal to the bliss of the Real.

Meditation is the Shift from Meaning to Being - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 09:00:00 -0600

In this teaching, Shunyamurti describes meditation as an art and a science, a means of shifting consciousness into higher dimensions where one is able to go beyond "normal", beyond signifiers, and into a core "imperience" of realization that reveals the real meaning of Truth.

The Simulation is Now Being Adjusted - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 03 Apr 2021 09:00:00 -0600

In this beautiful morning teaching, Shunyamurti explains that the Sat Yoga vow of santosha, contentment, is the basis for Grace, of which there are three forms: Shaktipat, anugraha, and prasad, all of which assist in the termination of the simulation - the dissolution into infinite consciousness.

This Dark Age Will Soon Dissolve in Light - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 27 Mar 2021 09:00:00 -0600

On the night of Maha Shiva Ratri, Shunyamurti invites us to celebrate the revelation of Truth while the window of opportunity is open to attain the Absolute, on the holiest night of the year, when Shiva descends to offer grace. To help with this ascension, Shunyamurti outlines the 7 stages yogis must accomplish to blast off in Shiva's rocket ship and merge into the Supreme Sun. Discover the 7 Stages on the full video on our Members Section.

Insane With Love: Shunyamurti Interprets Rumi - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 09:18:56 -0600

Shunyamurti reads and interprets the Rubais of Rumi: Insane with Love, revealing the main obstacle to Liberation is love for the ego rather than for God, and that moving from reason to radical acceptance is the essential breakthrough to the superconsciousness that is real Love.

The Buddha’s Inconvenient Truth - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 13 Mar 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti addresses the triad of desire, satisfaction and remorse, and how to live without suffering. In this teaching, Shunyamurti reads from and interprets the Ashtavakra Gita.

Dare to Master the Unreal World - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 06 Mar 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti poses the fundamental question of ancient Sat Yogis: Is the world real? He invites us to investigate the synchronicities and magical aspects of reality, and phenomena such as past lives and near-death experiences, to discover the infinite potentials of consciousness that have been inadequately understood by modern science, and can only be understood by those who dare to go beyond the matrix of misunderstanding.

The Unified Field is the Buddha Mind - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 27 Feb 2021 09:00:00 -0600

In this early morning teaching, Shunyamurti sums up the human problem today, at the end of this cosmic process, as the loss of the capacity to cooperate. However, this rupture in coherence will eventually bring us back to the "rapture of unity." Shunyamurti sheds further light on this by reading from the Zen Teachings of Huang Po, who reminds us that the Buddha Mind is not particular, and by learning to comprehend one's own Mind, the particularity will dissolve into totality, and all will return to the liberated ocean of consciousness.

The Psychoanalysis of Myth and the Myth of Psychoanalysis - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 20 Feb 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti sheds light on the spiritual journey from the perspectives of Hindu mythology and Lacanian psychoanalysis, metaphorically weaving them into an understanding of the three registers of consciousness (the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real) that ultimately must be recognized as an infinite pillar of light.

Abide in Infinite Intensity - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 13 Feb 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti reads from Hongzhi’s “Cultivating the Empty Field”, noting that most of these teachings are not understood by the postmodern ego because of its fragmentation and anxiety, but if one can gain distance from thinking, and maintain a cool, dry mind, we can move from sensory intensity to supersensory intensity and recover our infinite imagination.

Withdraw from the Unreal into the Real - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 06 Feb 2021 09:00:00 -0600

On the opening night of the Meditation Weekend, Shunyamurti defines Sat Yoga as union with the Real, the Supreme Intelligence that is Sat Chit Ananda. He uses the terms imaginary, symbolic and real to further clarify that this path, through meditation, will lead one to discover what is real and unreal, if one is willing to use the wisdom (gyana) gained to withdraw from the unreal and return to the Real.

The Perfect Way to Cope With Information Overload - YT clip

Sat, 30 Jan 2021 09:00:00 -0600

In this seminar teaching, Shunyamurti offers an imaginative illustration - the one-way mirror stage - to create an example that all egos identify with: You’re in a room as a bodily self, full of BS, and you’re constantly being bombarded by all kinds of programmed messaging - inter-personal, cultural, intra-mental. But in the room, there is a one-way mirror, and the Real Self is on the other side, unattainable and still, the key to understanding the enigma of who you are.

Full Empowerment Requires This Sacrifice - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 23 Jan 2021 09:00:00 -0600

In this teaching, Shunyamurti explains that one must sacrifice the inner child - to release the childish ego that refuses to grow up as a result of one’s karma and one’s willingness to remain a victim - in order to gain the capacities of adulthood necessary to become a community of fearless beings based in divine love that can overcome death and transform the world.

Sanity is Sovereignty Over the Matrix of Mind

Sat, 16 Jan 2021 09:00:00 -0600

How does one reach a higher level of sanity in this world system? In this teaching, Shunymaurti asks one to determine if one is in Self-rule or ego-rule, because if one wants to be in a state of sanity, one must relinquish the system run by egos and run to God. Since all egos are insane, ego-death is the only sane option, Self-realization the only sane state, so don't let the ego rule your life!

Envision a World Where Real Love Reigns - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 09 Jan 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Pay Your Symbolic Debt With the Real Gold of Dharma - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 09:00:00 -0600

In this New year's Eve teaching from 2017, Shunyamurti explains that at this unique moment in time, it is particularly important for yogis to recognize that dharma is the key to avoiding bad karma - a practice of humility and purity is essential to deliver oneself from suffering and to assist in delivering the world from its suffering. The world's karmic debt is now due, and it is every yogis' responsibility to become an agent of healing and peace on this Earth as it undergoes this next series of karmic events - but this is only possible if we have become free and pure by passing through the gates of own transformation with courage, faith, and truthfulness.

The Self Minus Karma Equals Bliss

Sat, 26 Dec 2020 09:02:00 -0600

How can one be karma free? In this teaching, Shunyamurti gives a reminder that here and now, all are the unborn Self, which has dreamed the soul vehicle, the body, and the ego, with the power to choose karma or choose bliss. So choose to release your karmic burdens and the ego to which they belong, and live as the blissful Self in the karma-free festival of joy!

Bring Joy to the World: Let Your God-Self Shine!

Thu, 24 Dec 2020 09:00:00 -0600

In this festive teaching, Shunyamurti explains that the holidays are holy-days, and all of the religions and traditions - Christmas, Channukah, Diwali to name a few - converge on the one realization that is the true meaning and spirit of all the mythological truths: Now is the time for remembrance and realization of our true nature as the holy light of consciousness that can bring joy to the world, peace on Earth, and divine love to all beings everywhere.

How to Upgrade Human Consciousness

Sat, 19 Dec 2020 15:14:03 -0600

The world is currently in a state of incoherence and confusion, but in this teaching, Shunyamurti reminds us that wisdom and love can heal the world's problems, leading us from confusion to coherence, and shifting the vibrational frequency of collective to higher states of consciousness, for a complete and total upgrade of the world's operating system...before it's too late!

The Self is Free of Suffering—Guided Meditation by Shunyamurti

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 12:40:17 -0600

In this guided meditation, Shunyamurti takes us on a journey deep into the heart, the abode of pure awareness, where consciousness is free of limitations or suffering, and the silence that transcends the world of the ego fills the body with peace and unconditional love, and saturates the mind with the vibrational frequency of stillness. (15 minutes)

God’s Great Reset Will Soon Begin - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 12 Dec 2020 07:28:09 -0600

In this excerpt from the opening night teaching of The Direct Path: Liberation Now! retreat, Shunyamurti teaches that in this historic moment, meditation is more relevant than ever, and that those who feel they are suffering from a loss of physical freedom are actually being offered an opportunity to go inward instead of outward, and to transcend to a higher level of being at the apparent end of this world, which is actually a return to the rediscovery of our supernatural resources. By letting go of both the ego and its narrative, one can terminate the simulation and reap the blessing of destruction as one dissolves into the bliss of Self-realization.

Upgrade Your Operating System

Sat, 28 Nov 2020 09:00:00 -0600

The ego is a paranoid android! Using the analogy of a computer operating system, Shunyamurti offers insight into the development of the ego structure, explaining the defenses and weaknesses of a system that was implemented in childhood, but on which the ego continues to base its operations. You must upgrade your consciousness to avoid system failure and reprogram the mind to realize the true Programmer within.

To Be Eaten by God, You Must Be Delicious!

Sat, 21 Nov 2020 09:00:00 -0600

The ultimate purpose of life is...to become delicious enough to be eaten...by God! In this very special retreat teaching, Shunyamurti likens spirituality to the medicinal and culinary arts, noting that the ultimate sacrament and purpose of our lives is to be eaten by God, which means making yourself as delicious--as in loving and truthful--as possible.

Hacking the Cosmic Video Game

Sat, 14 Nov 2020 09:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti suggests a thought experiment: Assuming that what we call reality is actually a virtual reality, a video game, what are the implied potentialities of our perceived world? In this classic teaching, he explains the implications and pitfalls of this potential for living reality.

Take a Quantum Leap Outside the Matrix - Shunyamurti Teaching

Sat, 07 Nov 2020 09:00:00 -0600

If the world is a video game, are you playing to win? In this recent teaching from our Sangha Retreat, Shunyamurti encourages us to take a quantum leap outside of the matrix in order to view the world as a simulation, a dream in the mind of God in which the dreamer of the game is you!

The Archetypes of Halloween

Sat, 31 Oct 2020 09:00:00 -0600

Public Livestream with Shunyamurti - Oct 11, 2020

Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:00:00 -0600

The Anti-Hero’s Journey Home From Hell

Sat, 24 Oct 2020 09:00:00 -0600

The Hard Problem of Loneliness

Sat, 17 Oct 2020 09:00:00 -0600

Higher Consciousness Activation: A Guided Journey to the Deep Self

Thu, 15 Oct 2020 09:05:53 -0600

Immortality and the Law of Love

Wed, 07 Oct 2020 09:00:00 -0600

Reality is Information: Re-Configure it!

Sat, 03 Oct 2020 09:00:00 -0600

Go Beyond Every God-Image to the Self

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 09:00:00 -0600

Leave the Unreal for the Real

Sat, 26 Sep 2020 08:24:03 -0600

Spiritual Capital is the Real Gold

Sat, 05 Sep 2020 08:58:28 -0600

Shunyamurti explains “The 73 Axes of Axiology” (or “The Dao of Complete Capitalism”), exploring the history and devolution of the concept of value, and reveals the only value that is eternal and does not diminish.

Spirituality in a State of Exception

Sat, 29 Aug 2020 07:13:36 -0600

Shunyamurti explains that nonduality, direct realization are very difficult for the ego to grasp, mentioning Kali Yuga, and, from the work of Giorgio Agamben, that spirituality is in a state of exception, then goes on to speak of the distinction between Zoe and Bios, and the implications of the social alienation created by the response to Covid-19.

Beat the Infernal Internal System

Sat, 22 Aug 2020 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti jests that he is writing a science fiction novel called "Escape from Tartarus", which is about how to get out the hell realm of the ego, and goes on to discuss the ideas of the German theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher, of the yearning for the infinite as well as absolute dependency on God, as well as how to break free of illusory dependencies in order to reach true liberation.

Redeeming our Forgotten Powers - 08.09.20

Sat, 15 Aug 2020 11:01:30 -0600

In this livestream satsang teaching, Shunyamurti teaches that we must awaken consciousness from this dark night to a new dawn by realizing the ego's entrapment in memory and language, and divest in the world while investing in the energetic currency that is true freedom and our true nature in order to capitalize on the spiritual wealth and supernatural resources to those who choose to risk climbing out of the ego's comfort zone and up the mountain of God.

Restore Our Planetary Energy Field - 04.11.17

Sat, 01 Aug 2020 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti speaks about the importance of our vibrational frequency, using the example of water crystals taking on the frequency of the energy that they are imbued with, how this vibrational frequency creates an energy field, giving an anecdote from his ashram in India, and how we must raise our vibrational energy to create a higher vibrational planet to bring about a new age.

What to Do When the Bottom Falls Out - 01.24.20

Sat, 25 Jul 2020 09:04:39 -0600

Shunyamurti reads from "Cultivating the Empty Field" (the writings of Hongzhi), a section entitled "With Total Trust, Roam and Play in Samadhi", which remarks on emptying out any hope of being an illusory entity with its "warm and cozy" comforts, that understanding cannot be transmitted through scripture, and one has to let go of even the purest beliefs, that there must be a state of free fall in nonduality between the phenomenal and noumenal, and that every fragment of the dream reflects infinite facets of the Supreme.

Let’s Bring Light to our Planet's Midnight - 07.11.20

Sat, 18 Jul 2020 20:39:54 -0600

In this opening night retreat teaching, Shunyamurti references Paul Tillich's "Ultimate Concern" as an inquiry into the various concepts of God that resonate in one's quest to love God, which is the supreme meaning of this reality and therefore the Ultimate Reality, and the only real salvation for a false world.

Last Chance to Complete the Great Work - 07.07.20

Sat, 11 Jul 2020 08:19:47 -0600

Shunyamurti explains that we are entering a period in which the whirlwind of destruction is accelerating, which affects all of us, as reality is fractal, and goes on to explain that we must be at the highest level of consciousness, as the ego-mind will not be able to survive.

At the World's End: What’s Love Got to Do With It? - 06.27.20

Sat, 04 Jul 2020 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti explains that the seriousness of satsangs must deepen in accord with the seriousness of the world situation, explaining that the next retreat is about the love of God, and that God must be focused upon, as the ego does not have any power of its own, and that people will begin to shift their allegiance to the vertical dimension of life, and that by cultivating the courage to dedicate ourselves to God-Realization, all the capacities of God can be accessed.

The Dystopia Is Over: Preparing for the New Beginning - 03.18.20

Sat, 27 Jun 2020 08:27:03 -0600

Shunyamurti says that some people are saying that we're entering a dystopia, but that we're actually leaving the dystopia, explains his toe swelling, that we have to be beyond terratoriality ("extraterrtorestials"), that we must be detached from what is dying, that God wants us to achieve independence, goes over eating less in this time, and that the key is inner silence and being in a state of calm proportional to the chaos in Kali Yuga, to not depend on golden metal but golden light.

Meditation: The Ecstasy that Ends Anxiety - 06.12.20

Sat, 20 Jun 2020 06:00:00 -0600

In this opening Meditation Weekend teaching, Shunyamurti speaks about meditation as a transformational approach to being, as the revelation of truth through having the courage, wisdom, and love to overcome anxiety and become enraptured in the motionless mind that is Self-realization.

Empowerment Meditation: Guided by Shunyamurti - 03.13.20

Fri, 19 Jun 2020 11:04:44 -0600

In this guided inner journey, Shunyamurti invites us to enter a deep state of relaxation and inner peace. Enable the highest frequency of your Being to fully manifest. Be filled with divine light, love, and the power to realize the freedom that is your essence.

The Breakdown of All Systems is the Breakthrough to Higher Order - 06.05.20

Sat, 13 Jun 2020 17:22:55 -0600

Shunyamurti speaks to the current events unfolding in the world, giving us wisdom to help us in these trying times.

How Higher Order Will Emerge From the Current Chaos - 11.24.19

Sat, 06 Jun 2020 06:00:00 -0600

Excerpt: "There is a real, true power that saves us from the suffering that seems to be apparently destroying the world. And when we recognize the Real that is indestructible, behind and within the illusion, we will be able to remain at peace, and to offer peace that is authentic, that will enable those who are suffering, whether physically or emotionally, to enter into a higher vibrational frequency that will bring the balm of love, and of the joy of knowing that one is in the protective energy field of a benign and loving God..."

Spiritual Preparation for the Chaos to Come - 05.23.20

Sat, 30 May 2020 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti explains that in order to spiritually prepare for this time of system collapse, which is actually a time of liberation, one must jettison the ego-mind for the Mind of God, a 4-track journey through unveiling, grace, and perfection to the Beyond.

Angelic Goodness: Freedom from Ego - 01.01.20

Sun, 24 May 2020 17:11:33 -0600

Shunyamurti discusses the concept of goodness, and how to be in service to God to fulfill our angelic nature.

Sat Yoga: A Post-Jungian Approach to Meditation - 11.22.19

Sat, 16 May 2020 09:47:44 -0600

Shunyamurti explains what the ego is, elucidating its structure from a Jungian perspective, and gives a Sat Yoga contextualization, including an explanation on meditation.

The Renaissance of Beauty in an Time of Darkness - 02.27.20

Sat, 09 May 2020 06:00:00 -0600

Prior to our Rose Day celebration, Shunyamurti explains the significance of the celebration, elucidating and expanding on the concept of beauty and its role in renaissance.

"Through artistic renaissance and a raising of intelligence to the level of divine power, we can right all the wrongs and create a new world order based on goodness, truth, beauty and divine love."

What is the Age of Aquarius? - 04.18.20

Fri, 08 May 2020 12:47:50 -0600

Question: What is the "Age of Aquarius"?

Liberate Consciousness from Limiting Narratives - 04.18.20

Sat, 02 May 2020 07:47:55 -0600

Shunyamurti explains that the ego is a limiting narrative, encouraging us to release this limitation in order to enter a new age of egoless harmony and understanding.

The Blissful Sameness of Anandamayi Ma ~ Shunyamurti Reads Yogananda - 04.05.20

Mon, 27 Apr 2020 11:20:11 -0600

Shunyamurti reads from Autobiography of a Yogi, speaking about the meeting between Anandamayi Ma and Yogananda.

Implications of Quantum Superposition in the Buddha Nature - 04.05.20

Sat, 18 Apr 2020 10:26:24 -0600

Shunyamurti gives a mindblowing teaching, relating The Heart Sutra with the game of pool, reveals that the goal of all religions is to build a quantum supercomputer, and peppering in gems of wisdom and insight along the way.

The Corona Retreat: Developing Global Immunity to the Ego Pandemic - 04.11.20

Sat, 11 Apr 2020 11:54:19 -0600

Shunyamurti opens our inaugural livestream retreat, welcoming our virtual participants, reads the words of Ramana Maharshi, and corrects the title of the retreat, "Awakening in a Dying World", so that it more accurately elucidates the nature of reality.

Be Free of Psychic Contagion: Gain Mastery Over the Ego-Mind - 03.14.20

Sat, 04 Apr 2020 14:38:15 -0600

Shunyamurti warns that as the chaos of Kali Yuga increases, it's important not to fall into psychic contagion, which would cause further karma, that one must be free of the monkey mind and have zero tolerance for chatter or for leaving the Zero Point, that one must remain in psychic union with the Supreme, and with that Holy Communion, there can be community, that the age of the ego is over and we must bring eternal Presence into time - and do this now.

Become the Ocean of Consciousness ~ Shunyamurti responds to Khalil Gibran - 03.14.20

Sat, 28 Mar 2020 09:43:27 -0600

Shunyamurti responds to the Khalil Gibran poem, "Fear", helping to mitigate our fears as we pass through this time of tribulation and return to the ocean of consciousness.

Receiving God's Disinfectant for Your Soul: A Spiritual Antidote to COVID-19 - 03.12.20

Sat, 14 Mar 2020 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti explains that we have entered the period of our testing, that the tests will become more severe, and reveals that we have entered the time of disinfectant, in which we must disinfect (purify) our contaminated soul that is paranoid and impure, that we must shift from belief to presence, surrender to God, and be absorbed in God's presence, letting go of any egoic props, and choosing to serve God.

The Decline and Fall of Dharma—and Triumphal Return - 02.02.20

Sat, 07 Mar 2020 08:43:46 -0600

Shunyamurti discusses the problems that arise on the spiritual path in the modern world, as well as the history of Buddhism and the discovery of lost Tibetan Zen texts that reveal the message that these texts have for us.

The 7 Stages of Soul Development - 12.28.19

Sat, 29 Feb 2020 06:00:00 -0600

In this powerful and inspiring opening night retreat teaching, Shunyamurti outlines the spiritual revolutionary's soul journey, a transformational shift into soul consciousness that transcends the ego's false paradigm to attain the Absolute! Love this teaching? To purchase the entire audio/video retreat package, cleck here: https://www.satyoga.org/product-page/advanced-training-for-spiritual-revolutionaries

The 7 Stages of Death and Rebirth—Self-Realization in a Morphing World - 02.21.20

Fri, 28 Feb 2020 09:58:20 -0600

In anticipation of our upcoming 7-day Transformational Meditation Retreat with Shunyamurti, Awakening in a Dying World, we share with you this powerful teaching on the seven stages of death and rebirth and how to achieve Self-realization in a morphing world. Learn more about this retreat: https://www.satyoga.org/meditation-retreat-costa-rica-april

The Real of Being - No Effort, No Intention But One - Livestream Satsang: February 2020 - 02.16.20

Wed, 26 Feb 2020 12:04:35 -0600

Livestream satsang recorded on February 16, 2020.

How Can We Understand the Collapsing State of Our World? - 02.01.20

Mon, 24 Feb 2020 12:29:44 -0600

Student Question: How Can We Understand the Collapsing State of Our World?

From the Dark Night of the Soul to the Supernal Light of God - 03.04.19

Fri, 21 Feb 2020 12:11:32 -0600

MAHA SHIVA RATRI SPECIAL: Enjoy this teaching on Maha Shiva Ratri, given by Shunyamurti, that reflects on the significance of this Holy Day.

How Do We Use the Energy of Romantic Love to Achieve Real Love? - 12.29.18

Sat, 15 Feb 2020 07:56:57 -0600

Student Question: How Do We Use the Energy of Romantic Love to Achieve Real Love?

Be Free of Ego's Chaos: How to Raise Your Vibrational Level - 02.08.20

Sat, 08 Feb 2020 07:45:13 -0600

Shunyamurti speaks to the state of the world and the role that we have to transform it, not to fall into despair, but understand the significance of this historic moment.

The Ego's Hell Realm & The Hero's Journey: Understanding the Central Myth of Western Culture - 01.18.20

Sat, 01 Feb 2020 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti explains that the central myth of Western culture was expressed best by Dante in The Divine Comedy, in which he describes the three levels/worlds that the ego must traverse, going on to describe the levels of consciousness of ego, soul, and Spirit, and moving beyond the egoic hell realm into the heavenly realm of Spirit.

The 7 Phase Shifts of Meditation + 7 Helpful Tips on the Spiritual Journey

Sat, 25 Jan 2020 07:47:15 -0600

Shunyamurti speaks about the seven phase shifts that occur during one's meditation practice and gives seven helpful tips for the spiritual journey.

Don’t Fall for a Fictional Form of Security and Power - 12.21.19

Sat, 18 Jan 2020 07:54:06 -0600

Shunyamurti reads from Padamalai, commenting on the wealth of grace vs the earthly riches that the ego seeks, the problems with the capitalist system, the collapse of the market economy, the symbolism of the word "depression" for both the psyche and economy, the correlation of the loss of spiritual wealth and material wealth, and the creation of true wealth through love.

How the Ego Went Bankrupt: The Double Debt Drive - 12.29.19

Sat, 11 Jan 2020 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti explains how the capitalist system is a reflection of the ego, going into the upper and lower "debt drive", as well as discussing the state of the world, the koshas, and how the spiritual revolution is impossible but inevitable.

Non-Duality and World Renewal: Integrating Ramana, Tesla, Aurobindo, and Fuller - 07.25.19

Wed, 08 Jan 2020 12:05:06 -0600

Shunyamurti speaks about the importance of integrating the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi with those of Sri Aurobindo, as well as the insights of Nikola Tesla and Buckminster Fuller, and becoming an avatar.

Shunyamurti’s New Year’s Message to Spiritual Revolutionaries Everywhere - 01.01.20

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 09:39:14 -0600

NEW YEARS SPECIAL: Shunyamurti gives his message for 2020.

The Hidden Message of the Wizard of Oz - 11.09.19

Wed, 25 Dec 2019 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti explains the spiritual significance and hidden messages in The Wizard of Oz.

I Am That I Am - Affirming The Truth of Being ~ A Christmas Satsang with Shunyamurti - 12.24.18

Sat, 21 Dec 2019 06:00:00 -0600

CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: Shunyamurti speaks about the true meaning of Christmas, of the relation of Christ to your real Self, the "I am", to which we affix various definitions, and of remaining in the pure "I am" that cannot be limited.

The Ego's Crisis: Existence is Not Real Being ~ The Existential Dilemma

Sat, 14 Dec 2019 08:37:41 -0600

Shunyamurti explores "The Seven Clarifications of the Existential Dilemma".

Attaining Fulfillment of our Human Potential: The Soul’s Journey to Redemption

Sat, 30 Nov 2019 12:00:34 -0600

Welcome to the be-dead-while-alive-stream, brought to you from the misty mountains of Costa Rica, from the Sat Yoga Ashram. Welcome to all of those who are attending the satsang online.

We’re in the midst of our annual rainy season retreat here at the ashram, and we’ve been in relative silence for the last couple of weeks and with intense classes and meditations. So I’m sure that those who are here in this local space as well as those listening online will have interesting questions—no doubt profound questions about your own journey to Self-Realization. But actually, the whole process and the whole understanding is extremely simple, and really does not need to give rise to any questions—it should actually put all questions to an end.

I think the ancient metaphor that’s most useful is simply that of the drop of rainwater that returns to the ocean. Perhaps a little more accurate would be a bubble of foam on a wave on the ocean, and when that ego bubble pops, there is only the ocean. And there was never anything but the ocean. And so if we understand consciousness to be an infinite ocean—an infinite field that is beyond time and space, in which the universe appears, but that appearance is nothing more than the foam on a wave within that ocean—then we understand that we have never left the original true Consciousness, that has no boundaries, no separate units. And all we need to do is let the bubble pop and we will realize that.

Discover the Secret Powers of Consciousness: Join the Spiritual Revolution! - 11.17.19

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 12:45:42 -0600

Question: The idea of a spiritual revolution is one that’s gaining traction, and the next retreat here in December is about that, it’s called “Advanced Training for Spiritual Revolutionaries”. So, my question is: what really is a spiritual revolutionary, and how will a spiritual revolution differ from the old revolutions that have come and gone and failed, whether political or pseudo-spiritual?

How to Awaken From the Illusion of Ego and World - 10.25.19

Fri, 15 Nov 2019 19:19:22 -0600

Shunyamurti explains the teachings that cannot be taught as well as how the world is unreal.

Dharma Combat: Ramana vs. Patanjali - 09.30.19

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti reads again from the Padamalai, specifically focusing on Ramana's view on hatha yoga and its shortcomings, proposing instead atma vichara rather than trying to make effort to control the mind, which is always an effort of the mind itself.

Yoga and the Return to Infinite Consciousness - 07.22.18

Fri, 01 Nov 2019 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti explains that yoga was developed as an attempt to return to the primordial state (since the beginning of Dwapar Yuga), but that it has devolved into a set of exercises, and discusses Ashtanga Yoga, which was not the original yoga and was based on the Sankhya philosophy, explaining the eight limbs (the Yamas/Niyamas, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi, Samyama) and going over them in detail, and explaining how they represent different phases of the spiritual path.

Frankenstein and the Collapse of Human Relations - 10.29.19

Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:44:26 -0600

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: Shunyamurti introduces the film, Frankenstein (1931), revealing the hidden messages it contains for our culture...

Go Beyond the Personal - 10.09.19

Sat, 26 Oct 2019 07:58:38 -0600

Shunyamurti reveals that the difficulty of meditation is that you think you know who you are, but that the key discovery of the ancient sages was that consciousness is impersonal and only learns to act like a person, identifying with the body, with demands of the parents, with patterns that become rigid, with a superego that makes it feel guilty and that it lives in a moral universe, and that if one wants one's "criminal record" wiped clean, then one more dissolve into the impersonal Absolute, which will manifest as love without desire.

The Meaning of Shiva Nataraja - 12.30.18

Sat, 19 Oct 2019 07:58:42 -0600

Shunyamurti reveals that the Nataraj is a fairly recent statue that comes from the Chola dynasty, that before the only representation of Shiva that was allowed was the Shiva Lingam, and that Shiva is the Zero Point that is the fire/flame/agni, and elucidates more of the symbolism of the Nataraj, going through each aspect in detail

The Secret of The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel: Awaken the Power to Heal - 03.25.19

Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:12:37 -0600

Shunyamurti reveals that the function of the Sat Yogi is to unify heaven and hell through the superior coherence of heavenly consciousness and the willingness to travel alone through the valley of the shadow of death, and that through this journey the gift of the wish-fulfilling jewel is given, which is what can bring about transformation to the entire holographic field.

Gautama Buddha’s Secret Journey & The 7 Obstacles to Becoming a Magus - 09.15.19

Sat, 05 Oct 2019 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti analyzes the meaning of Buddha's awakening, the importance of freeing one's intelligence from sentimentality, and the seven obstacles to magic, among many other topics in this teaching from our September 2019 retreat, "The Basis of White Magic".

The Practice of White Magic: Re-Dreaming the World - 09.14.19

Sat, 28 Sep 2019 08:23:34 -0600

Shunyamurti speaks about white magic, as well as the history of magic, and how it relates to the spiritual path.

Who Am I: Advaita Vedanta & Neo Advaita Approaches to Self-Inquiry & Ego Dissolution - 07.03.19

Mon, 23 Sep 2019 10:40:06 -0600

Shunyamurti explains "Aham Aham", the process of the conditioned "I" coming to know the true "I", as well as the difference between classical Advaita and neo-Advaita.

An Advaita Perspective on Ayurveda: Seeing the God/Self in Nature - 02.17.19

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 07:26:14 -0600

Shunyamurti reveals that the word in Sanskrit to describe Liberation is "advaita" ("not two"), and that the yogi empties himself/herself out (kenosis), which leads to fullness, he also speaks of Ayurveda, of God becoming the mineral kingdom as well as the biological, and that the Ayurveda doctors see God in the mineral world.

Gaining Real Mastery: Love is the Power and Wisdom the Portal - 08.10.19

Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:46:47 -0600

Join us for a full Satsang with Shunyamurti, filled with a Q&A from residents and visitors at the Sat Yoga Ashram!

Overcoming the Ego’s Traumas: How to Achieve Ultimate Healing ~ A Seminar with Shunyamurti

Sat, 31 Aug 2019 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti speaks of the vital needs that we have, how we attempt to cope with them when they are not met, and the relationship among all of them in this revealing teaching.

The Planetary Tribe is Reawakening - 06.08.19

Sat, 24 Aug 2019 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti speaks about bringing love, beauty, and life back to the planet while reuniting the planetary tribe of humanity.

The Ecstatic Sound of Silence ~ A Magic Mandala Guided Meditation & Sound Journey with Shunyamurti - 09.22.13

Thu, 22 Aug 2019 19:12:03 -0600

In this guided meditation, Shunyamurti invites us to enter the portal to the Absolute where the words, the music, and the silence are one. This masterwork of magical trance inductive multidimensional yantra will take you on a sound journey deep into the source of the silence that is your Self, the blissful realization that silence is the source of beauty and that sound borrows its beauty from the silence.

What is White Magic? - 08.10.19

Sat, 17 Aug 2019 10:50:08 -0600

Question: What is white magic?

The Free Will Paradox: We Dream Away Our Freedom, But Only to Awaken - 06.04.19

Sat, 10 Aug 2019 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti explains that one can speak Truth directly or vis-a-vis the illusion, but the latter ratifies the illusion, which is false, and that one must simply let go of ignorance, but this creates a catch-22 (letting go of illusion in order to think clearly so that one can let go of illusion), and one takes the illusion too seriously to want to let go of it, and he then speaks about the states of dreaming and deep sleep, specifically why one creates a dream and the function of the dream, how one creates a world that resists one's control so that one can believe that it is real and not have to face that it is an illusion, but that liberation requires a radical letting go of a belief in the world so that one can reach Sat Chit Ananda.

The Ego Age is Ending: Rocket Into the Ancient Future of Cosmic Consciousness - 06.09.19

Sat, 03 Aug 2019 07:58:01 -0600

In this teachings, Shunyamurti speaks about upgrading your system to Cosmic Consciousness and the new world to be created.

Ego Death, Soul Death and Absolute Eternity - 05.19.19

Sat, 27 Jul 2019 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti discusses the descent of consciousness, weaving in the understanding of Aham Aham, the transitive/intransitive linguistic use of the term "I", how this relates to the registers of consciousness, and ties everything with a discussion of karma.

Self-Enquiry and Self-Surrender: Two Paths or One? - 05.18.19

Sat, 20 Jul 2019 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti says that in the early phases of the spiritual journey, the path is divided in four types (action, devotion, meditative, and gyani) and explains each of them, then revealing that, as one goes further, the paths break into two (the "do it yourself" and the bhakti/surrender), describing each of these paths, but stating that both of these require love (not simply karma, willpower, etc.) and any belief one has about oneself.

Who Am I? - A Self-Enquiry Guided Meditation with Shunyamurti

Sat, 13 Jul 2019 07:42:21 -0600

Shunyamurti leads us on a guided meditation, focusing on Ramana Maharshi's practice of Atma Vichara, or Self-Enquiry, the question "Who Am I?"

Revolution is the Revelation: From Chaosmos to Chiasma to the New Communion - 06.22.19

Sat, 06 Jul 2019 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti uses the metaphor of a revolutionary to explain the ideas of Deleuze, Nishida, and Ramana in order to explain how to incite a real revolution that will take one to liberation.

Ramana Maharshi and the Will to Power, the Seductions of Epistemophilia, and the Politics of Ontology - 06.12.19

Sat, 29 Jun 2019 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti explains the significance of Ramana Maharshi and how his very life's trajectory has given us insight into the turn that the modern West has taken in the overthrow of materialism, as well as how this relates to Nietzsche's "Will to Power", the implications this has for our relationship to non-human entities, and what this means for the future.

Livestream Answers - 06.11.19

Wed, 26 Jun 2019 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti reads questions left over from the last Livestream Satsang and gives answers.

Yoga: The Sap of the Tree of Life - 06.20.19

Fri, 21 Jun 2019 13:11:55 -0600

Shunyamurti speaks about international yoga day, that yoga is inter-dharmic, that it comes from a former world age and predates all of the current religions, but that religion originally had the same purpose as yoga (to "re-unite"), giving the example of the trees of knowledge (duality) and life (nonduality) in the Garden of Eden, also speaking about how these reflect the buddhi and the manas, the story of the Bhagavad Gita and how we, like Arjuna, face the problem of divided loyalties in our journey to liberation, and how by surrendering to the Source and passing through ego death, the entire world dream can be transformed.

Ramana Maharshi, Spinoza, and Quantum Information Theory - 05.31.19

Mon, 17 Jun 2019 07:20:59 -0600

Shunyamurti says that there is a mistake in understanding the profundity of the teachings of Ramana, that they go far deeper than most people understand, and goes on to discuss predecessors to Ramana in the West (notably, Spinoza) and how Ramana's teachings elucidate, clarify, and summarize many of the insights of the West that came before him.

Who Am I? Ramana Maharshi and His Discovery of Self-Enquiry - 05.08.19

Sat, 08 Jun 2019 16:04:59 -0600

Shunyamurti clarifies that the realization of the Self happens outside of time, beyond the world, but the ego-mind is caught in practicality, not to mention dealing with inner drives, desires, fears (of loneliness), but the issues that plague the ego are often never acknowledged because of the ego's focus on the practical and superficial, and he then contrasts this with the case of Ramana and gives a detailed account of Ramana's history leading up to and following his realization of the Self, ending with the point that realization will happen the moment we choose it.

Livestream Satsang - 05.26.19

Wed, 05 Jun 2019 06:00:00 -0600

Listen to our livestream Satsang from May 26, 2019. Shunyamurti gives a teaching and answers viewers questions.

Who Am I? The Realization That Brings an End to Karma - 04.17.19

Sat, 01 Jun 2019 08:20:51 -0600

Shunyamurti asks why Ramana says that the only way to Liberation is through atma vichara, discussing that, if one looks deeply, there is no thinker to the thoughts, that the ego is a program that lacks essence, and discusses the programming and development of the ego, and that when the ego ends, karma ends.

How to Move From Knowledge Accumulation to Spiritual Realization - 11.14.18

Sat, 18 May 2019 11:48:55 -0600

Question: How does one move from knowledge accumulation to spiritual realization?

What is Satsang? - 03.27.19

Sat, 11 May 2019 07:31:33 -0600

Shunyamurti explains what Satsang is.

Guided Meditation - Awaken Your Kundalini - 10.21.18

Sat, 04 May 2019 08:58:31 -0600

Science & Spirituality - 11.23.18

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti starts by explaining the difference between contemplation and quantumplation, explaining how science has superseded religion, and how we must use the insights of science to elucidate our spiritual knowledge, and he speaks of the balance between theory and practice, finally speaking about the meaning of the Trivium.

Honoring the Goddess - 03.04.19

Sat, 20 Apr 2019 06:00:00 -0600

Question: How does one honor the goddess?

Excerpt: "The goddess is known as Shakti. Shiva and Shakti are the two twin principles of Cosmic Reality. Shiva transcends the cosmos and the power of Shakti creates and evolves the cosmos and is present as the intelligence of nature, the beauty of nature, the pristine infinite preciousness of the natural world and all of its potencies and all of the intricate intelligences that work together in every ecosystem. And to honor the Goddess is to honor and sustain and be a steward of that system of nature which she has provided and which she pervades."

Passover and Easter: The Metaphysics of Holy Days

Sat, 13 Apr 2019 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti reveals that, today, the bodily religions are celebrating Easter and Passover, which shows their frame of reference of body-consciousness, and explains their symbolic spiritual significance which pertains to all of us, as well as the symbolism of Moses and Christ.

Guided Meditation - The Power of Presence

Sat, 06 Apr 2019 06:00:00 -0600

In this guided meditation, Shunyamurti invites us to bring the attention to the center and merge into the source of being that is filled with love, power, wisdom and joy. (25mins.)

What is Meditation? - 02.01.19

Sat, 30 Mar 2019 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti defines meditation as "questioning the relationship to thought, body, and the world", and goes on to explain the paradoxes of thought itself, of trying to move beyond thought with thought, and of the structure and development of the ego.

How Do I Fully Accept Myself? - 01.16.19

Sat, 23 Mar 2019 09:32:11 -0600

Student Question: How Do I Fully Accept Myself?

Designing a Better World - 01.16.19

Sat, 16 Mar 2019 12:45:39 -0600

Enjoy this livestream Satsang teaching with Shunyamurti from January, 2019.

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Guided Meditation: Let Go, Relax and Feel Free

Sun, 10 Mar 2019 11:33:04 -0600

In this guided meditation, Shunyamurti invites us to relax the bodily vehicle and feel free to enjoy the flow of its life energy. Notice the pure awareness that emerges between thoughts; melt into timeless, loveful Presence; enjoy the feeling of resonance with the source of your being. This guided meditation was recorded during our Members Section Livestream Satsang, with live music by Hanuman.

Maha Shiva Ratri: How to Activate Your Supreme Potential

Sun, 03 Mar 2019 08:15:31 -0600

Celebrating Maha Shiva Ratri: The Holy Night of Shiva In this teaching, Shunyamurti explains that Maha Shiva Ratri is a portal to activate our supreme potential. "Are you able to be in tune with the vibrational waves which bring not only peace, but bliss, power, love, fulfillment, and liberation from all illusion? Maha Shiva Ratri is the day in which we are to do the fine-tuning to that supreme frequency."

Ramana Maharshi's Last Love Affair

Sun, 17 Feb 2019 18:15:54 -0600

The Ego's Failure to Love

Sun, 17 Feb 2019 18:14:42 -0600

Shunyamurti begins by saying that God gifts all treasures to those who yearn, then explains that many people begin to conceive of God as the third person (He/She), working through to the second person (Thou) when the relationship has deepened, finally realizing God in the first person (I Am/the Self), he then speaks about how God can only be known via the heart, through love, but egos are as agnostic about love as they are about God because of past experiences and traumas, but that love is the only answer and alone will bring us peace/stability, saying that love is the portal to the Absolute, that when there is love there is no need for techniques, and that the heart must be purified.

From the Little Prince to the Big Lebowski: A Modern Myth

Sat, 02 Feb 2019 06:00:00 -0600

Having screened The Big Lebowski the previous evening, Shunyamurti analyzes the famous line, “The Dude Abides”, and contextualizes the place of the Dude on the spectrum of consciousness, noting that the puer aeternus (the psychological position of staying an immature "eternal child" and refusing to grow up or take responsibility), embodied in past cultural icons such as The Little Prince, has become the Big Lebowski, and encourages us to abide as the Supreme Dude, rather than the Dude portrayed in the Cohen brothers' movie.

What is Real? - 12.03.18

Sat, 19 Jan 2019 09:27:22 -0600

Shunyamurti discusses esoteric paths and exoteric paths (that begin from an ego perspective), saying that seeking creates more seeking, then proceeds to explain the three Reals and how they correspond to Tibetan Buddhism (Dharma Kaya, Sambhoga Kaya, and Nirmana Kaya), also speaking about love and chakra two, and, of course, recommending the movement to Real 3.

Meditation is Refinding Your Essence - 09.26.18

Wed, 09 Jan 2019 10:46:14 -0600

Excerpt: "And as more and more lights are lit in this cosmic menorah, in which each of us is an eternal candle, flaming its beauty and its divine light to the world, we create a light that cannot be extinguished, and that cannot be improved, and whose silent shining is the eternal living symbol of the presence of God, who never withdraws."

The Secret History of Christmas (Full Teaching)

Sat, 22 Dec 2018 14:08:58 -0600

Shunyamurti begins by wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, explaining the connection between Christmas and the Amanita Muscaria mushroom that was used to help the uninitiated reach higher altered states of consciousness, which made holy days, then goes on to explain the spectrum/levels of consciousness, and speak on many other topics, such as death and rebirth, the fall of religions, and the universality of Christianity for all religions.

How to Cut the Knot of Suffering - 10.22.18

Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:14:43 -0600

Shunyamurti begins by asking the difference between a spiritual seeker and a spiritual finder, saying that the seeker has a human sized ego and the finder has a cosmic ego, and he goes on to elucidate the concept of Nothing, then goes into a metaphor of a car on a journey (ego = tires, soul = GPS, Atman = Driver), and says that the ego is terrified that Liberation from the matrix will be the end of jouissance, then speaking about the difference between individual mind and Mind (as infinite consciousness without thoughts—that Thinks!), and concluding on the role of art, as well as the pop songs that get stuck in our (small) mind.

The Ego's Main Fear... - 10.24.18

Sat, 01 Dec 2018 09:46:00 -0600

Shunyamurti begins by speaking about the ego's main fear of being overwhelmed, discussing how this manifests at each of the lower chakras, he then goes on to discuss the formula: God = Knowledge, and that knowledge = information & intelligence, and how we get information from each of the three Reals, finally discussing the ego's defense against this by either pseudo-love or pseudo-hate, and the relationship among egos at this level.

Live Free of Labels - 10.23.18

Sat, 24 Nov 2018 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti opens the teaching by saying that Abhyas (Practice) invites Anugraha (Grace), he then goes on to discuss the sin of labeling, the implications for oneself and for others, and how this creates the illusion of an ego, an other, and a world, and how we live in a world without labels.

How to Heal a Broken Heart - 06.26.18

Sat, 17 Nov 2018 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti reveals that the sign of an old soul is having a broken heart. There is an anguish that one wishes to heal, but the heartbreak is a terminal wound, and the ego won't accept what is present—the loving embrace of God. The ego must be killed, and the presence of God is the only thing that will fill the heart, but the ego has cut off love because of the wounding, and in surrender and silence the divine heart can begin to speak.

The Blessing of Hopelessness - 06.04.18

Sat, 10 Nov 2018 06:00:00 -0600

Shunyamurti explains that the ego's main problem is dis-regulation, which creates hopelessness, which is actually a great blessing because it makes one look for the Self. He goes on to discuss the ego's way of discharging its energy rather than accumulating it into power in order to reach the Self.

May you realize the blessing of hopelessness.

Halloween: Spiritual Origin and Significance - 10.29.18

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 06:00:00 -0600

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL:

In this special Halloween teaching, Shunyamurti explains the reason for the holiday of Halloween, its spiritual significance, as well as its Celtic origin from the people of "Arya-Land" (aka Ireland), how this holiday is tied into the Vedic Yugas, and how to use this opportunity to bring up and slay the demons that lie hidden in the unconscious and realize the transcendent Self beyond all darkness.

Yoga: The Shift From Thought to Love - 09.03.18

Sat, 27 Oct 2018 06:00:00 -0600

Excerpt: In the recent modern period of history in the West, atheism and materialism gained hegemony, as the paradigm of reality that intelligent people would adopt. And as a result, nihilism and narcissism became the dominant modes of egoic behavior and structure.

Introducing Quantumplation: Do You Quantumplate Reality? - 06.29.18

Sat, 20 Oct 2018 06:00:00 -0600

Excerpt: “Contemplation of the one Self has been the core activity of monks and of Sufi mystics and Taoists and Buddhists and Hindus and alchemists and kabbalists—all the esoteric traditions of the perennial philosophy for thousands of years. And we are continuing that, but we want to update the terminology because an extraordinary emergence within the field of science within the last 100 or so years, which is referred to as ‘quantum physics’, has completely changed the nature of human understanding…”

What in the World is Going On? - 09.26.18

Sat, 13 Oct 2018 12:38:40 -0600

Have you been asking yourself such questions as these:

Why do I keep missing connections with people?
Why are lasting love relationships so difficult to establish?
Are higher values becoming extinct?
Why is there no little compassion and respect for truth?
Why are so many people so fragile, brittle, angry, and scattered?
Why are governments, corporations, and people all acting so irrationally?
Why all the earthquakes and other massive geological shifts?
Is all of this part of a larger pattern?
Is there a purpose?
Is time speeding up? Or is time an illusion? Or both?
What is it all leading to?
Is there light at the end of the tunnel?
How can I accelerate my own inner development to be able to master the challenges ahead?

In this spectacular satsang teaching recorded at the Sat Yoga Ashram, Costa Rica, Shunyamurti addresses these questions and so much more.

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He’s No JP Sears: Shunyamurti’s Last Stand Up - 08.25.18

Tue, 09 Oct 2018 11:14:44 -0600

Excerpt: "You see, I obviously couldn’t make it as a comedian. . . . And what I ended up doing was going into silence. Because you can’t really go wrong if you don’t try to tell a joke. And I could see why it’s very depressing to be a comedian, because nine out of ten of your jokes are going to fail, nobody’s going to laugh at them, and this will feed on your depression to the point where you’ll say, 'OK, I’m inadequate in my ability to make people laugh.' So, when I recognized that that whole reason for people to become comedians was the feeling of inadequacy, then I realized, 'OK, this goes to the very core of the issue with the human ego.'"

Quantum Yoga - 01.14.17

Fri, 20 Apr 2018 11:03:18 -0600

In anticipation of Shunyamurti’s upcoming five-day retreat focusing on chaos theory and complexity theory and the connection between science and the transformation of consciousness, we share with you this teaching.

Follow this link to download the full transcript of the teaching and learn more about this very special retreat

In this teaching, Shunyamurti describes Sat Yoga as a scientific yoga that understands the Real through quantum physics, the Symbolic through semiotics, and the Imaginary through chaos theory, complexity theory (and others), and explains that we must shut down our dependence on the Imaginary and its props.

Can You Solve the Riddle of Existence? - 12.13.16

Sat, 24 Feb 2018 12:02:00 -0600

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Excerpt: "The Sat Yogi is consciousness determined to discover the truth about the riddle of existence, the truth about the nature of being, of awareness, of the world process of which consciousness is aware, the truth behind all identifications, the truth of the Self. To discover the truth, the yogi must not presuppose that the truth is already known, must not accept some prefabricated version of truth, but must discover this for oneself." Recorded on the morning of Tuesday, December 13, 2016.

Defeating the Ego - 05.06.15

Sat, 10 Feb 2018 10:00:00 -0600

Excerpt: "The victory of God means the defeat of the ego; the defeat of all egocentric narratives. God does not become victorious through some effort; God is always-already victorious. But that victory is only recognized when the ego’s helplessness, and the futility of establishing the reality of any ego, is recognized. It is at the fall of the ego that the victory of God is realized." Recorded on the morning of Wednesday, May 5, 2015.

Into the Wild - 03.28.16

Wed, 31 Jan 2018 10:00:00 -0600

Excerpt: "... But to return to our wildness we must know who we are, we must reach that level of Truth that is not identified with an I-thought, with a body form, with a limited mortal life span because our wildness is eternal and has nothing to do with the domesticated life of the ego, has no interest in such a substitute for real existence." Recorded on the morning of Monday, March 28, 2016.

How to Develop a Culture of Consciousness

Sat, 27 Jan 2018 10:00:00 -0600

Excerpt: “The form of social organization known as the ‘ashram’ is ubiquitous in culture in both the modern and the ancient periods in every culture as a manifestation of a school for the science of the transformation of consciousness, and a research laboratory for the practical experimentation with the theoretical principles of such transformation—and the dissemination of that information to the larger culture, and to create a basis for intercultural exchange. In the ancient world, one of the most famous ashrams was that led by Pythagoras…” Recorded on the morning of Sunday, March 8, 2015.

The Real Game of Thrones - 08.13.17

Wed, 24 Jan 2018 10:00:00 -0600

Excerpt: “Meditation’s purpose is to enable you to sit on the Lotus Throne, the Sri Nalinasana. The Buddhists speak of it very clearly, and yet, indistinctly because they refer to ‘Aum Mani Padme Hum’, the ‘Diamond in the Lotus’. But where is the lotus? What is the location of the Lotus Throne? How do you get there?” Recorded during the August 2017 silent retreat on the morning of Sunday, August 13, 2017.

How to Claim Your Inner Power in a Time of Crisis - 10.28.17

Sat, 20 Jan 2018 10:00:00 -0600

Excerpt: "And so it will be very difficult for you to think your way out of the trap of the ego – and this is why the opening of the heart is so important because it is only the feeling of love that will raise you out of the misery of the ego level of consciousness – and this is why it is so important to recognize that the nature of God begins with that realization of divine love. God is more than love, but God is love – and our own love for God is that level of resonance which invites in all of the power and Presence of that infinite Self that you are." Recorded during the Rainy Season Retreat on the evening of Saturday, October 28, 2017.

The Absolute Cookie Dough - 12.09.15

Mon, 15 Jan 2018 07:19:27 -0600

Excerpt: "One could use the metaphor of an infinite sheet of cookie dough. And there is a cookie cutter that has cut a certain amount of this dough and separated it out—that's the ego. Now, before it's baked it can be put back in, and once it is smoothed out as part of the sheet of cookie dough it loses its identity doesn't it? It's simply the entire infinite sheet of sweetness, but once it's been separated out into a tiny little cookie and baked, it can't be put back; that's ego life. And so because the ego is a cutout, and is a form that has been separated from its own essence and baked into hatred, fear, envy, despair, all of that produced simply by its removal from its Infinite Source, the ego cannot be healed because it is the very cutting off from its infinite essence that is the problem." Recorded on the morning of Wednesday, December 9, 2015.

Santa Claus and the Power of Forgiveness - 06.15.17

Sat, 16 Dec 2017 12:00:00 -0600

Excerpt: "What does Santa Clause give? He gives you a present. Most people only have a past. Santa gives you a present - he gives you Divine Presence, that's what the gift is under the tree. And what is the tree, it's the Tree of Life, it has to be evergreen, right? When you have arrived at the Tree of Life and the star of Bethlehem, the star which is that ultimate point of Infinite Light that is the absolute image of Shiva and you are within that field of delight, of joy that is Christmas, the season of Christmas, and everyone comes to the tree and there are gifts for everyone because Santa was very generous, and it's all there, then everyone receives a present . . . . It is the Presence that is the real gift, and if you are willing to accept Santa's gift of eternal, ever-green Presence, then you are liberated." Recorded during a Silent Retreat, on the morning of Thursday, June 15, 2017.

Who Is the Knower of the Matrix? - 04.01.16

Sat, 18 Nov 2017 10:00:00 -0600

Excerpt: "Because all that is directly known by the knower is consciousness itself. And consciousness places a grid over the known, objectifies it, calls it a world, calls it external, divides the external and the internal, and creates an illusory identity to function within the realm of the known. Once that illusory identity is believed in, and the positor of all of these positings is forgotten about, the consciousness has trapped itself within an illusory matrix within which it will inevitably be traumatized, and it will create melodramas of persecution, of needing to be rescued, or being a rescuer, or a victim, or all three cycling around one another. And the only way out of this eternal melodrama of suffering is to recognize that the one that posited itself in any of these positions of rescuer, victim, or persecutor, is not within that matrix at all, and was never born into a world, nor separated from consciousness in its pure form—which in the mythic construct is known as God." Recorded on the morning of Friday, April 1, 2016.

Life: The Impossible Game - 02.10.16

Sat, 21 Oct 2017 14:28:35 -0600

Excerpt: "The game is such that the very thoughts that you have; every thought, every image, every memory, every impulse, is a move in the game - but did you make the move, or was that move made against you? Because it is undecidable who is responsible for your thoughts; is it your own consciousness? Is it some introjection of an other? Is it a demonic entity? Is it the family system internalized? Is it some Big Other that has brainwashed you? Is it some dream in the mind of God? Is it psychosis? It's indeterminable." Recorded on the morning of Wednesday, February 10, 2016.

Reality: A High Stakes Game - 03.28.17

Sat, 07 Oct 2017 15:51:04 -0600

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, eternal union with that Real that alone can guide us safely through the rapids of the white water and the black water […] that we can only get through if we are able to levitate above the surface of the raging stream of consciousness through our surrender to that Light that carries us above the flood to safety on the other shore of non-duality.” Recorded on the morning of Tuesday, March 28, 2017.

The Practice of Delight - 07.14.17

Mon, 25 Sep 2017 12:14:05 -0600

Excerpt: "The delight is the natural state, so before we acquired egos, all of us were always in a state of delight. That's the normal baseline of human consciousness. And then an ego program was imposed on us that took away our delight, and the ego is based on the loss of delight. Because we were trained that we had to get serious and we had to be worried about things and we had to be concerned with learning things and doing things that we didn't want to do, and our delight soon became something else, and there was a nostalgia for the lost delight. And so delight became a kind of an imaginary state that we wished we could be in. And all of culture is basically made up of ways of being in artificial substitutes of delight. We try to get delight from films, from comfort foods, from all kinds of artificial celebrations and sex, drugs, rock ‘n' roll, but none of them produce real delight, and we have lost our delight because we've lost our innocence." Recorded on the evening of Friday, July 7, 2017.

Silence The Way and the Goal - 08.12.17

Sat, 09 Sep 2017 13:01:39 -0600

Excerpt: “Silence is both the way and the goal of meditation. The silence that is being referred to is the silence of wakeful consciousness aware of itself as it really is; not projecting out fantasies and affects and mental objects, not deluding oneself, not being filled with chatter, not being sleepy and spaced out, not being in either desire or fear. It is the state of silence in which there is no mental activity, in which all the mind’s modifications have been stopped, that the Real Self emerges, and the ego and all of its illusions and all of its suffering dissolve forever.” Recorded during the Silent Retreat, on the evening of Saturday, August 12, 2017.

God is a Gambler - 7.15.17

Sat, 26 Aug 2017 11:27:29 -0600

Excerpt: “The only way that God could satisfy His gambling impulse was to create a universe that was Himself, but in which He would forget everything He knew as God, and that He would divide Himself into both male and female, which made the world a total gamble, as you know. And not only that, but He would put some aspects of Himself that were male into female bodies and some that were female into male bodies - which made the gable even more extreme. And so every relationship became a gamble, every event, every project - and because a gambler loves surprise, God had to build in absolute surprising, unsuspected consequences to every action that would take place so that the very intelligence of God would be stymied by these unknowable, unforeseen consequences of every action and that everyone would therefore always be in a state of suspense.” Recorded on the morning of Saturday, July 15, 2017.

The Skin Ego - 07.15.17

Sat, 12 Aug 2017 10:00:00 -0600

Excerpt: “. . . Didier Anzieu, another French psychoanalyst who developed a theory of the ego, his most famous and relevant book in this context is called The Skin Ego, and I think the relevance of this is that the skin becomes the center of consciousness at a certain moment when the child is about to go through weening, but it has not yet made a full differentiation between itself and the mother - there is still the ‘I and the mother are one’ - but the skin surface becomes the place of the conflict, and the place where that conflict, in terms of the old Freudian Oedipus complex, still has its last remaining threads of relevance which is that the father or . . . the paternal function that helps to separate the child from the mother, and this is the place where skin ailments happen, acne and other things; they are the skin ego’s complaint against its forcible separation from the mother.” Recorded on the evening of Saturday, July 15, 2017.

Why Miss Out on the Magic? - 04.13.17

Sat, 29 Jul 2017 10:00:00 -0600

Excerpt: Consciousness is magic in itself. To adopt the egocentric frame of reference means you have sacrificed your magic, your magic powers lie in that consciousness which is beyond the scope of the ego. And so you can live a humdrum life that’s very reasonable and probably deal with most of the forms of agony and suffering and barely muddle through and endure within that egoic frame of reference - but why miss out on the magic? On the miraculous? On the astonishing capacity of consciousness to transform the world?” Recorded during the Healing With Truth retreat, on the morning of Thursday, April 13, 2017.

Feel the Energy of Life - 05.29.17

Sat, 15 Jul 2017 10:00:00 -0600

Excerpt: “Can you feel the energy of life flowing through your organism? Do you allow the energy of life to fully flow through every cell of the organism? Are you conscious of what the energy of life feels like? Are you in direct contact with the power of life that keeps your body alive, healthy, and functioning at optimal capacity? Or do you block the flow? Do you limit it? Do you repress it? Do you have fear of too much life? Do you allow yourself to be bathed in the life energy? Do you know the source of the life energy? To know the life energy fully requires that you have attained a position in consciousness that contains the life energy, that your power of presence allows the full flow of infinite eternal life through Itself. But that which witnesses life is that which the ego fears as death. And so to be fully alive is to unify the power of life with the power of death - to realize they are one.” Recorded on Monday, May 29, 2017.

The Escape: Hatch!

Sat, 01 Jul 2017 12:29:27 -0600

Excerpt: "The only escape hatch is that place from which new information arises, that touches the receiver of the dream and transforms its frame of reference from within." In this teaching Shunyamurti describes yoga as a science - not of objects - but of consciousness. Recorded on the morning of Monday, January 16, 2016.

International Yoga Day Message: A Call to Self-Liberation - 06.06.17

Fri, 16 Jun 2017 13:46:57 -0600

A very special message from Shunyamurti, recorded especially for International Day of Yoga 2017. In this direct transmission, Shunyamurti addresses the importance of having an international day of Yoga and how to make the best use of it as a portal to Self-liberation.

Excerpt: “Speaking as a yogi, I feel called to express the reality of the importance of this day. It is fitting that the world is coming to recognize the importance of yoga, because yoga has the power to enable to world to change its destiny. The ancient wisdom of yoga enables the serious practitioner to enable the liberation of consciousness and there is nothing more powerful than liberated consciousness to effect the destiny of the world in the most positive way.”

Meditation: Discovery of Your Innermost Self - 01.17.16

Sat, 03 Jun 2017 10:00:00 -0600

Excerpt: “And that’s why we meditate: it’s that act of the discovery of the inmost Self. But how to do it when there is so much resistance of the outer levels? The itchy body that’s uncomfortable sitting still; the mind that doesn’t want to stop thinking and remembering and planning and being somewhere else than [where] you are; the emotions that keep coming up, sadness, desire, despair. All of those internal chaotic arisings that keep one from simply being who one is.” Recorded on the morning of Sunday, January 17, 2016.

Ramadan Yoga: Abide in the Cave of the Heart - 27.05.17

Mon, 29 May 2017 07:37:24 -0600

Excerpt: “This evening begins the great holiday of Ramadan for all the Muslims in the world. The holiday celebrates the culmination of the practice of yoga by the great yogi, Muhammad, who sat in a cave in a state of deep samadhi, and reached such a level of God-consciousness that a vision of an angel came to him and gave him the wisdom that he downloaded that became the Koran” Recorded on the morning of Saturday, May 27, 2017.

Cultivating the Wisdom of the Heart - 09.21.16

Mon, 22 May 2017 10:48:17 -0600

Excerpt: “And so the key to the Sat Yogi’s success is the cultivation of the wisdom of the heart that recognizes the value of this transcendent peace and love and silence and stillness and Eternal Presence over the flux of jouissance and suffering and angst and paranoia and attachment and greed that have produced all of the unhappiness that cannot be rectified by continuing to maintain that same pattern. And eventually the wisdom of the heart overcomes the ego’s desire to get more because more turns out to be less. And in that recognition that the value of love is much greater than the value of things, and that the value of that Ultimate Source of love is greater even than the value of the love between those who are still within the I-thought, that ultimate love and ultimate intelligence and ultimate power is accepted in exchange for the letting go of all the rest.” Recorded on the morning of Wednesday, September 21, 2016.

To Be Or Not To Be: That Is The Struggle – 04.26.17

Sat, 06 May 2017 10:21:10 -0600

Excerpt: “To be or not to be – that is the struggle, not just the question. And the struggle is between appearance and being. And the struggle is difficult because the ego mind is a very primitive instrument that thinks in terms of images, and that which does not appear as an image does not seem to be. And until the discernment between what is an image and what is real has been established by the mind, there can be no consistency of Self-realization because the Self is not an image, the Self does not appear, and therefore to the ego mind, the Self does not exist.” Recorded on the morning of Wednesday, April 26, 2017.

The Core Difference Between Eastern & Western Religions – 03.25.17

Sat, 22 Apr 2017 10:00:00 -0600

Excerpt: “And it is this capacity for sudden Illumination and Liberation that creates a difference in the nature of the Eastern and Western paths. It is this Illumination that is the awakening to the Real and the decision to abide as the Real, and not fall back into the illusion that ensues simply and spontaneously from the silencing of the ego for long enough to disentangle one’s consciousness from any desire to remain in ignorance.” Recorded on the morning of Saturday, March 25, 2017.

The Significance of Easter - 03.25.17

Sat, 08 Apr 2017 10:00:00 -0600

Excerpt: ”You will find equivalent archetypal figures who have gone through almost the exact same kind of life as Jesus - whether it’s Horus in the Isis and Osiris story, or it’s Adonis or Bacchus, or any of the spiritual heroes prior to Christianity. And it’s also because the Jewish and Christian traditions arose out of an earlier goddess tradition: it was Asherah, and before her it was Astaroth, and before other goddesses back to Ishtar. And Ishtar is the most filled out and elaborated mythology about the rise and the fall of the goddess, the Divine Feminine, who is the carrier of the Sacred Heart that became the Heart of Jesus." Recorded on the evening of Saturday, March 25, 2017

Read Shunyamurti's essay, The Transfiguration of Ishtar, here: http://bit.ly/2oaBeRG

Come Out of Ignorance and Stop Suffering! – 02.19.17

Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:12:17 -0600

Excerpt: “Avidya means ‘ignorance’, but it should actually be translated as ignorancing because it is an act; it’s not simply a state, and I would define it as the ignoring of the fact that you are ignoring. And what are you ignoring, is the fact that you are aware of your body and know that you are not your body, and yet you pretend to be your body. You are aware of the mind, of the thoughts, the chatter, the affects, and you know you are not the mind, but you pretend to be the mind and remain enmeshed in its melodramas. You are ignoring the fact that you are simply the witness to all of that. And by ignoring that fact, you are able to identify with the illusion that you are a bodily being when in fact, if you stop ignoring, the truth will dawn upon you that you are formless presence.” Recorded during our Silent Retreat, on the morning of Sunday, February 19, 2017.

Silent Retreat: Guided Meditation - 02.19.17

Fri, 24 Mar 2017 10:22:40 -0600

Why Positive Affirmations Don’t Work – 02.22.17

Mon, 13 Mar 2017 08:09:01 -0600

Excerpt: “By letting go of all identifications, the consciousness is able to receive and absorb into itself the Real Love that is the essence of our Being and bring that into the ego from that space of consciousness that is not ego, but that is also not other, that is in the reality of non-dual Being. And so the Emptiness has access to the Fullness that is the true nature of our Being – which you could call God-Consciousness – and as that comes in, the power to transform the ego-consciousness and to dissolve it and to completely eliminate the traces of suffering and of negative belief is given to you, but it’s not given to you from a position within language, it’s given to you from that Intelligence that is trans-linguistic and that doesn’t need to make any affirmations in language. It is simply the realization of what you really are.” Recorded during our Silent Retreat, on the morning of Wednesday, February 22, 2017.

How to Interpret the Dream of the World – 01.01.17

Fri, 03 Mar 2017 10:03:45 -0600

Excerpt: “Is your consciousness in the world or is the world in your consciousness? The situation can shift like in those optical illusions where you can see a vas or two people face to face, and it can shift back and forth. But when you recognize that it is at least equally true that the world appears in your consciousness, and that you are therefore beyond the world, transcendent of the world, that is simply an appearance of apparent activity of forms moving in apparent space and time, observed from a changeless point of view, then there is much greater detachment and peace and humor in all that is being observed, and nothing touches you because you are inherently beyond what is being observed.” Recorded during the Return to Source retreat on the evening of Sunday, January 1, 2017.

Discovering the Unknown Power Within – 02.22.16

Mon, 30 Jan 2017 12:21:19 -0600

Excerpt: “A great and mysterious power is using us, is moving us, is transforming us, even though most of the time many of us will not even be aware of the presence of that Power. But it has brought us all here. It has configured our lives. It has created our ability to understand what we do understand and is gradually opening our consciousness to understand ever more of the nature of this great Power and the reality that this power creates, sustains, and destroys and recreates anew at ever higher levels of beauty and the revelation of Truth. But although this power moves us it does so from behind, or from deeper within than we ourselves have reached. And if we wish a direct encounter with this great Presence, if we wish to know fully, the truth of this great Being, who is our being, then we must take a step in the direction of this Power.” Recorded on the morning of Monday, February 22, 2016.

The True Meaning of Christmas – 24.12.14

Fri, 23 Dec 2016 11:01:03 -0600

Excerpt: “It is the death of the ego that is the advent of Christ, that makes the birth of Christ possible. If there is still an illusory self, how can the Real Self emerge? And because the illusory self is identified with time and space and matter, eternity is obscured, infinity is obscured, the noumenon is obscured. It is the wiping away of these obscurations, the tearing of the veils, the traversing the plane of the phenomenal through the diaphanon into the noumenal Real of God that can only happen when consciousness has been freed from its identification with the body…” Recorded on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2014.

It’s Time to Invest in Presence – 08.16.16

Sat, 26 Nov 2016 10:00:00 -0600

Excerpt: “Consciousness is an investor. And it begins its journey in the physical plane by investing in its body, investing in the projections that others have invested in it which, become its first capital…. It’s at this point when one has activated the capacity for viveka, for discernment between the unreal and the real, the counterfeit and the genuine currency, that one recognizes that the only valuable currency – in life, in relationships, in the capacity to organize oneself coherently – is the power of love. And if one can take the risk of investing in love, which requires the letting go of all of one’s other investments and becoming vulnerable to the loss of the love of others, to the failure to be loved, and to choose the currency of love itself – not what love can get you – as the value that you hold on to.” Recorded on the morning of Thursday, August 16, 2016.

Breaking the Spell of Reason: The Rebirth of Spirit – 05.15.16

Sat, 29 Oct 2016 10:00:00 -0600

Excerpt: “Through meditation we are finding – really re-finding – our lost Real Self. To find the Self we must recognize that what we are seeking is our ultimate reality – but it is our ultimate reality, not someone else’s, the truth of our being. And we must recognize that the ultimate is also the most intimate. Our innermost being is also the most all-encompassing, absolute reality that comprises the essence of all that is so that the Self that we seek is both personal and transpersonal – and impersonal. It is the ultimate paradox that is all inclusive and yet beyond the inclusion of anything whatsoever, because it cannot be grasped by any of the categories of reason.” Recorded on the morning of Sunday, May 15, 2016.

The Nature of Emptiness – 10.29.15

Sat, 01 Oct 2016 10:00:00 -0600

Excerpt: “What is the nature of Emptiness? . . . Emptiness is not without self. Emptiness is empty of everything that is not the Self. And the Self is goodness, the Self is light, the Self is beauty, the Self is love. And the truth of our Being is that we are empty of everything that is not Self; and what is not Self are the ego images, the traumas, the sense of being rejected and unworthy, the evil-speaking voices, the attacks, sense of depression – these emotions within us that we often cannot name but that are experienced as dread – these we are taught are not the Self, but they are there because there is not a realization of the Self.” Recorded during the Lion Heart Koan retreat on the morning of Thursday, October 29, 2015.

Sat Kabbalah, Yoga and the Messianic Age

Sat, 03 Sep 2016 08:54:00 -0600

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Detoxing the Power Drive – 05.26.15

Sat, 06 Aug 2016 16:02:52 -0600

Excerpt: “Below the erosion line, below the consciousness the buildup of the power drive grows. ‘Since I don’t know anything and can’t trust anything or anyone and everyone is a potential enemy, then I must constantly be active politically to increase my power.’ That’s what’s going on in the unconscious of everyone’s ego. There’s a power drive, but a power drive that is so unclean and so ugly that it has to be denied and suppressed from consciousness…” Recorded on the morning of Tuesday, May 26, 2015.

Learning to FLY – 04.16.14

Sat, 09 Jul 2016 08:45:30 -0600

Excerpt: “If you wish to heal from any physical suffering, or any emotional or mental suffering, or any pathological behavioral tendency, dependency, sense of weakness, there is one panacea, one solution, that solves all difficulties – and that is to fly to God.” Recorded during the Healing Into Wholeness retreat, on the morning of Wednesday, April 16, 2014.
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Returning to the Immaculate Self – 01.15.16

Sat, 11 Jun 2016 09:26:14 -0600

Excerpt: “Meditation is the act of becoming immaculate. Immaculate means there is no trace of identification with anything objective – whether material or mental. There is no trace of the stain of existence. The immaculate Self is unborn, and because the immaculate Self is unborn, it is un-traumatized, and it never goes through that spiral of development or of downfall into the dark. It is only the illusory ego that goes through such a journey. But that illusory ego is illusory and so is the journey.” Recorded on the morning of Friday, January 15, 2016.

Dive Into the Purity of Silence – 03.18.15

Fri, 13 May 2016 13:31:03 -0600

Excerpt: “The silence is always present – always – at the core of consciousness, even if there is chaos, storms of hysteria, psychotic delusions, miseries of all kinds at the surface of the ocean of consciousness. But in the depths there is always stillness, always peace, always patience, always presence, always the absence of the illusion of ego. Because this peace is always present, there is nothing to achieve, but the remembrance and the realization and the abidance as the silence, as the purity and serenity of the presence that is the absence of ego heals all the other levels of the ocean of consciousness and brings to an end the storms of emotionality and delusion at the surface.” Recorded on the morning of Wednesday, March 18, 2015.

Is It Hopeless? - 2.20.16

Sat, 09 Apr 2016 06:52:53 -0600

Student Question: Is is hopeless?

True Spiritual Warrior: The Vision of the Unborn – 07.08.15

Fri, 01 Apr 2016 07:13:22 -0600

Excerpt: “Arjuna is the archetype of the spiritual warrior. But the war that is fought is the war against the illusion that there is a war. The spiritual warrior knows that there is no one to fight; there is no conflict except one’s own mind. And Arjun is Ajat, unborn, and to the one who knows there is no birth, there can also be no death, and thus there can be no suffering, and there can be no gain and no loss.
The spiritual warrior is one who is in resonance with Krishna, the avatar, the embodiment of that absolute spiritual knowledge that is also power, and that appears as compassion, and wisdom, and moral strength.” Recorded on the morning of Wednesday, July 8, 2015.

Reaching The Fullness Beyond The Abyss - 12.31.15

Sat, 12 Mar 2016 07:31:23 -0600

Student Question: How do I reach the fullness beyond the abyss?

Bliss or Hubris: You Choose – 2.27.15

Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:49:14 -0600

Excerpt: “It has always been recognized that the only difference between a sinner and a saint is that the sinner settles for crumbs of pleasure – in between which are massive amounts of suffering – while the saint is always in bliss. And so therefore can’t we say that the difference is simply a difference in intelligence? One makes a wiser choice. But the choice of bliss comes at a price, and the price is, well two prices, which come to be the same: one is hubris, the other is greed.” Recorded on the morning of Friday, February 27, 2015.

How to Live With an Open Heart - 12.29.15

Tue, 02 Feb 2016 07:05:30 -0600

Student Question: How can I live with an open heart without taking on other's suffering?
Recorded during the Abyss and Pleroma retreat, on the evening of Tuesday, December 29, 2015.

Popping the Ego Bubble – 11.27.15

Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:08:48 -0600

Excerpt: “The Self, and by the Self we mean consciousness in its pure, original form, before it is conditioned by all of the indoctrination that we received in our childhood and in an ongoing way by all of the messages we get from society and each other . . . we are infinite beings in a state of bliss, with knowledge, with love, with power. And then we are taught a lot of misinformation that causes us to forget all of that. So within this infinite pure consciousness, little bubbles of finite belief systems form, and when such a bubble forms in which there is an identification, usually with the bodily form . . . we call that an ego. And that little finite bubble of consciousness gets cut off from the rest of consciousness and forgets about everything outside of that bubble.” Recorded on the evening of Friday, November 27, 2015.

Why is Love So Painful? - 12.28.15

Tue, 05 Jan 2016 17:16:54 -0600

Student Question: Why is love so painful?

Life Is But a Dream... To Re-Dream – 7.19.15

Thu, 24 Dec 2015 10:55:56 -0600

Excerpt: ”Can you awaken to the dreamer of the dream who is within you at this very moment, and awaken to your own power to re-dream this world as a heaven rather than a hell? Do you have the courage? Do you have the will? Do you have the love to propel you to awaken from your own dream of life, and realize the truth that you are the dreamer? This is the real question we all face.” Recorded on the morning of Sunday, July 19, 2015.

Overcoming Self Deception

Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:08:57 -0600

Student Question: How do you deal with the hypocrisy of the ego when you say to yourself that you want to surrender and walk the spiritual path but you don't do it? How do you deal with that situation without starting an internal war?

Meditation: The Moment of Grace – 10.25.15

Sat, 14 Nov 2015 13:10:43 -0600

Excerpt: ”If and when meditation is successfully accomplished it is the result of Grace. It is given, in the same way as in the Old Testament, the manna from heaven was given every morning in the desert; they didn’t have any food in their rucksacks. And they were moving along and couldn’t plant any, and it was a desert where very little was growing, but somehow every morning the manna would appear. In our meditations it is that same faith that the manna from heaven, the Shakti, the lumination, the presence of that inner Other, of that power that is the Real Self, will shine upon us, will grant us a glimpse or a realization of the fullness of the Being that we are that is beyond anything we can think we are. And that Grace comes when there is love.” Recorded during the Lion Heart Koan retreat, on the morning of Sunday, October 25, 2015.

What is Awareness Made Of? – 10.03.15

Tue, 13 Oct 2015 10:17:57 -0600

Excerpt: ”Awareness is all that we know. Whatever seems to occur is only an appearance in Awareness. But what is Awareness made of? Does it have a substance? Is it objective? Awareness cannot be captured by any science because every science must be an appearance in Awareness; and science is a form of knowing, but there is no form of knowing that can know Awareness. Therefore we cannot say that Awareness is made of anything; it has no substance, no essence. And since everything is an appearance in Awareness, and is simply a modification of Awareness, then we cannot say that anything is.” Recorded on the morning of Saturday, October 3, 2015.

Dao Art That – 02.17.14

Wed, 16 Sep 2015 16:04:13 -0600

Excerpt: ”God is the infinitely branching reality of the creativity of life itself. And we who sit under this tree of life, we are life. And we can hear the sound of life, and it is the sound of love. And if we sit watchfully like the animals on the lookout, feeling the energy of God’s love, as Nature Herself, and realizing we are one with that; we are Nature’s tuning forks who transform the bliss of this divine presence into art, into meaning, into poetry, into philosophy, into prayer – into sheer delight. This is our function as part of Nature.” Recorded during The Dao of Love retreat on the morning of Monday, February 17, 2014.

The Alchemy of Love – 08.02.15

Mon, 17 Aug 2015 08:33:34 -0600

Excerpt: “Our beliefs are a defense against love. We live in the head in order to avoid the heart. And by eliminating any hiding place in the head at the level of beliefs, we force ourselves to face the reality of the Self as love - and our surrender is a surrender to love. It is the bringing to an end the fearful flight from love that is the ego’s raison d'etre. And thus we can define meditation and yoga as the practice of the purification and perfection of love. Love is what we are. Love is what God is. Whatever is real is real because it is love.” Recorded during the meditation weekend on Sunday, August 2, 2015.

The Hard Question of Consciousness – 02.06.15

Thu, 02 Jul 2015 16:08:05 -0600

Excerpt: “Why is the world something to us that arises, and that creates not only sensations, which are easily correlated to the five senses, but feelings, intuitions, and all of the subtler aspects of consciousness? Because none of that would be necessary based on simple evolutionary principles in which we could have been simply robots, or zombies . . . and how do we know that everyone else in the world is not a zombie, in other words, seemingly conscious but actually simply a computer program; programmed to respond in given ways that are adaptable but that they have no interior reality, how do we know? And how is it that there is an ‘I’ that can even ask that question?
Well this Hard Question is in fact the original question that produced the field of yoga; it is nothing other than the question that Ramana insists that we ask which is ‘Who am I?’ ‘what is I-am-ness, being-ness?’” Recorded on the early morning of Friday, February 6, 2015.

International Yoga Day: What is Yoga, Really? – 06.16.15

Mon, 22 Jun 2015 17:24:05 -0600

Excerpt: ”The first important thing to recognize is that yoga cannot be defined. The closest definition I have been able to come to after many years of studying this subject is: yoga is the practice of the Real. However, because we are discussing this in language, which is a representation of the Real, the language is already an avoidance of the subject; and no representation of the Real, can reach the Real. Therefore yoga can only be known but not defined by a real yogi. And the word for Real in in Sanskrit, the original language in which this practice developed, is sat, so we refer to this as Sat Yoga.” Recorded on the morning of Tuesday, June 16, 2015.

Spiritual Detox – 05.31.15

Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:41:39 -0600

Excerpt: ”… That’s the poison that we have is our addiction to the imitation self, and to its passions for trying to find a reality through clinging to some other, that also has become an imitation – and to detoxify means to find what is real and to let go of the artificial. It’s really that simple. Because the artificial will kill us; in fact the first artificial ingredient was our identification with the mortal body and thus we took in death, and the fear of death. But also we took in the loneliness that comes with being a body in a world of bodies, because bodies do not love, and bodies are only defence mechanisms to deal with survival. But to live at that level where we’re living to survive, to assure our security, that means that we never live, we’re never fully alive in joy, because we are always governed by these worries, these protective mechanisms…” Recorded on the morning of Sunday, May 31, 2015.

The Greatest Story Never Told – 05.28.15

Mon, 08 Jun 2015 14:29:55 -0600

Excerpt: “Where does the story originate? And what is it that we must face? Is it not the face of God? And is not the face of God the very absence of God that requires us to fill in that absence with a story. But to restore ourselves to the Real requires us to be able to endure the face of God, who is the destroyer of the story, and to endure in that everlasting Emptiness, out of which the Real emerges as royalty – real and royal are the same word. And it is when we have burned away the stories, all the stories . . . what is left is the Real.” Recorded on the morning of Thursday, May 28, 2015.

Renouncing the Religion of Vanity – 05.21.15

Tue, 02 Jun 2015 13:10:02 -0600

Excerpt: “A Sat Yogi is one who renounces vanity. Religious, spiritual teachers have been pointing at vanity as the cause of our suffering for thousands of years. And one could see that as the core of the frame of reference of the ego – that because the ‘I-thought’ is based on nothing real, that that lack must be compensated for by vanity. And the vanity inherently includes an inverse level of vanity, and this produces the affects of pride and shame, and there becomes an obsession with those aspects of body, of mind, of behavior that one is proud of and others that one is ashamed of. And the life of the ego becomes an oscillation between one and the other, and a determination usually from moving from shame into something one can have pride about. And the more that one tries to move away from shame the more deeply one realizes that the vanity is embedded in the mind process of the ego itself.” Recorded on the morning of Thursday, May 21, 2015.

Surprise! – 05.22.15

Mon, 25 May 2015 14:33:50 -0600

Excerpt: “Every religion posits a trinity . . . [and] what it always comes down to is presence, intelligence, and love. In the Christian tradition, presence is the Father, intelligence the Son, and love, the Holy Spirit. The same trinity can be referred to as Sat Chit Ananda in which the blissful aspect of love is emphasized – but it is the same trinity. Or Satyam Shivam Sundaram, in which the beautiful aspect of love is emphasized. But love and the symbolization of love is what changes; the other two remain constant. Because love is that aspect of this ultimate reality that is vulnerable to the fourth member of the Godhead that remains invisible except as a glitch in all of these systems; because the Godhead is not a triad, but a quaternity. And the fourth member of the Godhead, that has been banished into the outer darkness returns in the form of. . . .” Recorded in the morning of Friday, May 22, 2015.

The Imperative of Meditation – 04.19.15

Tue, 19 May 2015 20:09:03 -0600

Excerpt: “Meditation is the discovery of the Real Self. In the process of discovering the Real Self, one also uncovers the fact that the ego is a false self; it is made up of conditionings that have been imported into consciousness from others . . . and accepted without due consideration for whether these are views that one truly holds oneself or were simply indoctrinated into one’s conditioning in order to comply with environmental demands . . . . Meditation is a kind of internal vision quest; there is no need to go out into the desert or the jungle or sit in a cave, but to move your attention into the cave of pure awareness in which you observe your own consciousness to discover ‘what is really there inside, what is really in my heart, what is really the source and foundation of my being?’” Recorded in the morning of Sunday, April 19, 2015.

The Defeat of the Ego is the Victory of God – 05.06.15

Mon, 11 May 2015 12:45:19 -0600

Excerpt: “The victory of God means the defeat of the ego, the defeat of all egocentric narratives. God does not become victorious through some effort. God is always already victorious, but that victory is only recognized when the ego’s helplessness and the futility of establishing the reality of any ego, is recognized; it is at the fall of the ego that the victory of God is realized. It is this paradox that is most difficult to integrate. So long as the ego . . . remains the frame of reference of thought, then the reality of God will not be recognized or surrendered to, but God will remain as a bit player in one’s scenario. It is when all the machinations of the ego fail, when all of its knowledge proves inadequate, that we turn to God as a last resort, and recognize that the ego cannot do it.” Recorded on the morning of Wednesday, May 6, 2015.

Presence Is. – 04.27.15

Mon, 04 May 2015 15:23:04 -0600

Excerpt: “Presence is. Nothing more accurate can be said in language because language cannot approach Presence; language is the retreat from Presence into identification, into subtle subject-object duality in which the signifier itself is both subject and object. Sat Yoga could be said to be a return to Presence because Presence is primary. . . . Presence is the Supreme Real. Presence has no present, because it is timeless. It cannot be described because Presence is not an object or a thing – not even a subject. Presence is prior to subject-object duality.” Recorded on the morning of Monday, April 27, 2015.

Peace is Not "La Di Da" – 04.07.15

Mon, 27 Apr 2015 14:34:47 -0600

Excerpt: “The mind is the cause of all suffering. When that becomes clear, then along with that the resolution of the problem of suffering becomes clear as well: that only a radical transcendence of the mind, the discovery, the realization of the transcendent Self will solve the problem. But the sages say that only when the realization of the urgency, of the need to transcend the mind, is at least equivalent to that of the urgency of a man whose hair is on fire to find a pool of water to dive into, should you begin a path like this. . . I tend to use the acronym now of “LA DI DA,” which is Lack, Anorexia, Deflation, Inflation, Dread, Avoidance. And in that dialectical oscillation one tends to go on with the ego as if nothing [were] wrong: “La Di Da” – and yet underneath that is the unbearable suffering that alternates with momentary jouissance or security-op[eration] that keeps one from having to feel the urgency, and thus the frog boils away in the water and never jumps out.” Recorded on the morning of Tuesday, April 7, 2015.

Guided Meditation

Sun, 19 Apr 2015 14:43:03 -0600

Beginning with a deep relaxation, this guided meditation with Shunyamurti is designed to help you enter into a deep meditative state. Recorded during the Meditation Weekend on Friday, March 13, 2015.

Cultivating Moral Strength – 04.09.15

Tue, 14 Apr 2015 10:02:16 -0600

Excerpt: ”The central existential problem for most beings is a lack of moral strength. And this plagues people at different levels; one is the lack of the strength to stop pretending one believes in one’s ego identity and all of its self-sabotaging sanskaras. And so the lack of moral strength to face the truth of one’s imposture as an ego is usually because one cannot face the anxiety of admitting one doesn't know who one is, and what life is about, or any of the pretenses that the ego assumes and suffers from. And then the lack of moral strength at that second level of anxiety at one’s cluelessness as to one’s being is the lack of strength to sit in the unknowing, the ‘cloud of unknowing’ if you will, until the Mystery reveals itself, as the Self.” Recorded on the morning of Thursday, April 9, 2015.

The Power of Wanting Nothing (At All) – 03.19.15

Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:00:12 -0600

Excerpt: “Meditation . . . is the silencing of the mind, with its attention one-pointedly focused on God; God as the selfless Self, the immutable center and heart of consciousness. Through that silent focus, which is a docking maneuver, the individual consciousness docks and unites with the supreme source of power . . . . In this unification of the individual consciousness and the supreme infinite consciousness, power is transmitted and the battery of the individual is charged.” Recorded on the morning of Thursday, March 19, 2015.

True Pain Relief – 03.27.15

Wed, 01 Apr 2015 15:27:09 -0600

Excerpt: ”Every soul carries so much pain from so many other lives, so much karma. The soul itself is ripped and torn and unable to function, let alone the ego split into a thousand shards of egoic fragments with no willpower; a total inner chaos of instability – that there is no way out except the death of the ego. And it’s when that is recognized that there is nothing else on one’s agenda but that, that liberation is achieved. But as long as there are any options of doing anything else, one will choose those options because this is the most difficult, the most radical, and it’s only an extreme amount of pain that would provoke someone to take a path like this. And so therefore consider your pain a blessing: without it you would not find God.” Recorded on the morning of Friday, March 27, 2015.

Self-Acceptance: The Key to Liberation – 03.13.15

Fri, 27 Mar 2015 09:40:42 -0600

Excerpt: “The trick is this . . . there’s only one obstacle to achieving Self-Realization instantaneously in meditation, and that is the lack of self-acceptance – simply that. If you would accept yourself as you really are, you would achieve enlightenment and liberation. But the ego mind, which is a kind of veil over the real Self, is in a state of non-acceptance, and that non-acceptance can be on a spectrum going all the way to intense self-hatred up to a point of simply dissatisfaction with what one has achieved in life. But for most people the thermostat rests around . . . a point of lack of forgiveness of oneself for some belief that one has betrayed oneself and one’s integrity along the way – and that therefore one is not worthy of God-consciousness; that’s the issue. . .” Recorded on the opening evening of a meditation weekend on Friday, March 13, 2015.

Can You Bear the Intensity of the Real? – 03.01.15

Tue, 10 Mar 2015 10:43:58 -0600

Excerpt: “A Sat Yogi is one who is practicing to endure the infinite intensity of the Real – who is no longer running away from the Real. But can anyone bear the intensity of the Absolute? Even to understand the meaning of this statement one must listen with the third ear open – an ear that we usually leave closed as an act of running away from an unbearable recognition of what is really being said within the words that are spoken. And even if the third ear is open, it is usually not connected fully to the Heart, because then the unbearable intensity of the Real would enter the Heart and shatter the ego.” Recorded on the morning of Sunday, March 1, 2015.

Be in Bliss! Be the Perceiver… - 02.26.15

Wed, 04 Mar 2015 14:27:46 -0600

Excerpt: ”. . . To be perceived means to be perceived in a consciousness; and therefore what is fundamental is consciousness. But if to be is to be perceived in consciousness rather than to be the consciousness which perceives, something is inside out and upside down isn't it? So the extraordinary thing is that idealism, as it is understood in the West, is precisely materialism. Because isn't materialism the belief that what is real is that which is perceived? That’s all matter is, is that which is perceivable. And why consciousness cannot be studied scientifically, they say, because it is not perceivable – it is only that which perceives.” Recorded on the morning of Thursday, February 26, 2015.

You Choose Your Destiny – 02.10.15

Tue, 24 Feb 2015 20:14:39 -0600

Excerpt: ”Sri Ramana says that happiness is inherent to the human being. Inherent to the human being that has realized its True Self. But the human being, unlike other creatures, is capable of living in a false self. And that false self entails unhappiness, vexation, suffering, anguish. And the mystery of human existence is why so many human beings choose the false self of suffering over the happiness of our natural Being. And this strange conundrum of human self-chosen misery and self-defeat and refusal to accept love can only be understood once consciousness has realized our true nature.” Recorded on the morning of Tuesday, February 10, 2015.

Kumbha Mela: Bathe in the Waters of Surrender – 02.15.15

Thu, 19 Feb 2015 13:39:22 -0600

Excerpt: “The core myth that unites all the people of India is expressed in a rite that is referred to as the Kumbha Mela. And a Kumbha Mela, which minor versions happen every twelve years and more major ones every fifty and then there are the really big ones every five hundred years, but they are all representations of the one Kumbha Mela that they recognize happens at the end of time, at the end of the cycle, which is also the beginning of the cycle; the omega point is the alpha point because there is no end or beginning to the universe, or to time. And the big bang that is projected onto the physical dimension is actually an occurrence within consciousness.” Recorded during the Shiva Singularity and the Mystic Rose retreat, on the morning of Sunday, February 15, 2015.

Reading the Book of the Universe – 02.07.15

Fri, 13 Feb 2015 12:05:29 -0600

Excerpt: “The human essence is that of a reader – because to read accurately is to set yourself free. All we do, constantly, in every moment, is to read; but do we understand what it means to read? We do not just read books, we read one another’s faces, we read the energy field, we read the auras, we read our dreams. We are constantly reading, and reading is tracking. . . . But what are we on the track of and what kind of fortune are we seeking? But the universe itself is a book if we learn how to read it.” Recorded in the morning of Saturday, February 7, 2015.

The Gift of Offering Yourself to God – 02.01.15

Wed, 04 Feb 2015 07:07:13 -0600

Excerpt: “Sat Yogis are those who make offerings to God. Religious people merely ask favors of God; they want something from God, whether it’s wealth or happiness or guidance – but it’s a taking. But what God wants to know is: what are you offering? The more that you offer to God, the more you shall receive – without asking. If you offer your heart to God, you will receive the power of transforming love; you will receive the power of bliss. If you give your mind to God, you will receive supreme knowledge…” Recorded on the morning of Sunday, February 1, 2015.

Reading the Mind of God – 01.20.15

Mon, 26 Jan 2015 20:10:12 -0600

Excerpt: “In South India the temples are shaped like pyramids with many levels leading up to the top. And although a simplistic view – because there are many more levels than could be inscribed in a physical building – it is accurate that at the higher and higher levels that one rises to, the fewer apparent others can understand one until one reaches that level of consciousness that no one can enter.” Recorded on the morning of Tuesday, January 20, 2015.

The Sacrifice of Love – 01.06.15

Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:32:59 -0600

Excerpt: ”. . . Because it is only the completely dead ego mind that enables the life of the Godself to emerge. This emergence comes from the very principle of sacrifice itself. A Sat Yogi’s life is not only an ongoing sacrifice, but an ever deepening sacrifice. The ego tends to sacrifice the easy things first, that which it didn’t really want anyway, that which did not pertain to its core identity structures and images. But the Sat Yogi learns . . . that the sacrifice that had been made is not enough; and one discovers something that the ego is still holding onto.” Recorded on the morning of Tuesday, January 6, 2015.

The Mystery I Am – 01.04.15

Mon, 05 Jan 2015 20:57:30 -0600

Excerpt: ”. . . And so the crossing of the threshold into the portal of that dimension beyond the ego begins with the disbelief, the disinterest, the dispassion for the ego’s illusions and lies. And gradually a recognition comes that one is not only clueless about the nature of outer reality but also of inner reality; that we are not, as egos, in a state of self-mastery. We are clueless as to the real motivations of what we think and what we do, how we react, that the consciousness of the ego mind is governed by a censor that manufactures paranoid fantasies with which to distort any event that is not going its way.” Recorded on the morning of Sunday, January 4, 2015.

The I-Thought and the Emptiness – 12.28.14

Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:37:17 -0600

Excerpt: ”. . .Because the I-thought, once it is conjured up from the Emptiness, identifies with matter. And the I-thought becomes linked with the physical body – with what gets taken, mistaken, for a physical body. It is not actually so much a physical body or a physical world, but a world of surfaces. And this is the key point because the I-thought eliminates depth. The I-thought converts the world into only a labyrinth of surfaces; there is no depth. Even though we have a concept of volume, but if you open anything up all you’ll find again are just surfaces . . . it’s all just literally superficial. Where is the within? Where is the essence? The world cannot consist only of surfaces. What is behind the surface?” Recorded during the Planetary Rebirth retreat, on the morning of Sunday, December 28, 2014.

The Art of Self-Mastery – 12.22.14

Fri, 26 Dec 2014 17:08:48 -0600

Excerpt: ”We are here to make extraordinary effort, to achieve God-consciousness. But that effort consists in attaining effortlessness. And the more effort we make to be effortless, the more effortless even that effort becomes. The great paradox of all of this is that duality moves within non-duality, and non-duality expresses itself as duality. But we are to hold both sides of this paradox in the perfect tension that enables the dis-identification from either polarity, and the transcendence of both.” Recorded on the morning of Monday, December 22, 2014.

Sat Yoga: The Science of Joy – 12.12.14

Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:26:44 -0600

Excerpt: ”Sat Yoga is a science – it’s the most ancient science in the history of humanity; it’s the science of consciousness. . . . The science that seeks to understand: what is the true extent of the human potential? How far can we grow beyond the normal ego-consciousness that limits our lives to a melodrama of suffering . . . is there a way to grow beyond the traumas that have limited our scope, our ability to even understand the mind of God?”
“As every scientist will tell you: to practice science you need a laboratory. And the proper laboratory for the science of consciousness is called an ‘ashram. . . ’” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, December 11, 2014.

Meditation: An Inward Prayer – 12.04.14

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:44:18 -0600

Excerpt: “Meditation is inward prayer. To understand this in depth we need to understand . . . inwardness. Every religion bifurcates into two basic forms which have been referred to exoteric religion and esoteric religion. The exoteric – the outer religion – is the religion that is delivered to those who are mentally immature; for children, for those who still need to believe in Santa Claus or some equivalent, for those who require a concrete imaginary image of God and of a way of living that is ethical that can only be delivered in very concrete ways. . . . But at the level of esoteric religion, the inner religion, for those who are philosophically mature, for those who seek Truth that is beyond fact, we can call it ‘Hyper-Truth’ if you wish, in which it’s beside the point whether anyone named Jesus walked the earth because the reality of Jesus is beyond the question of the fact. The reality of Christ is here and now, not a historical question.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, December 4, 2014.

Once Upon a Timelessness II: The Godstory – 11.27.14

Mon, 01 Dec 2014 17:13:29 -0600

Excerpt: “Once again we enter upon a timelessness – but this time because we are out of time; and the only way forward will be for those who are out of time. Time as we know it is coming to an end. But time as we know it is only history and now begins Godstory. But Godstory is a moment that is timeless and of changeless solitude, a time in which the Real is recognized as the immutable, the supernal and sempiternal Light that underlies and pervades all of the illusion called time.” Recorded during the Gratitude and Goodness retreat, on the morning of Thursday, November 27, 2014.

Crack the Code of the Matrix! – 11.24.14

Mon, 24 Nov 2014 19:56:27 -0600

Excerpt: ”Everything on the plane of matter is a code. The job of the human intelligence is to break that code. When you have cracked the code you will be able to achieve freedom. But you must be able to crack the code of everything; that’s how the light gets in. And that’s why it’s important to understand and study the religions of the world, but all of the religions, it’s not that one is true and the others are false; they are all true, and they are all false. They are false if they are misunderstood – just as you are false when you misunderstand yourself. This is why the film The Matrix is still the most important cultural achievement of the postmodern period because it pours the wine into a bottle that can be related to by this computerized culture. So the first step that everyone has to take is to swallow the red pill. . .” Recorded during the Gratitude & Goodness retreat, on the morning of Monday, November 24, 2014.

Meditation: Stop Running Away – 11.13.14

Mon, 17 Nov 2014 20:21:05 -0600

Excerpt: “Meditation is the easiest thing in the world and the hardest. It’s the easiest because it doesn’t require doing anything; and it’s the hardest because it doesn't require doing anything – because the ego always wants to do something. And what meditation is, is the freedom from doing. It is the act that is a non-act that is that is simply stopping the running away from your Self – because we run away though thinking, through chattering to ourselves. We run away from the present into some past experience that we’re reliving or rehearsing a future one, or having an emotional reaction about what we wished we had said to someone, or didn’t say, or feeling angry at what they said, or in some way dealing with some other who is not present, and not being with the Self. It is this constant act of running away that simply must be renounced, and that’s all meditation is.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, November 13, 2014.

Serious Meditation – 11.06.14

Mon, 10 Nov 2014 15:29:57 -0600

Excerpt: ”. . . And therefore it is the transcendence of language, of thought, that is the essence of the first step in meditation, the opening up of the psyche to Pure Presence that is focused on the Source of Being, but without trying to grasp it conceptually; that is focused with devotion and with love for the ultimate mystery – that one must be very humble and careful not to believe one already knows just because you’ve read a lot of sacred texts or you’ve heard various gurus speak or you know that you’re supposed to believe that all is one or God is all that is or whatever is the current ideology, because none of that is true – because no set of words can capture the Truth.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, November 6, 2014.

Crossing the Gap of Understanding – 10.30.14

Thu, 06 Nov 2014 16:52:22 -0600

Excerpt: “The two doctrines of most importance and usefulness in the East are those of Advaita and Advaya. The Advaita doctrine says that the Supreme Real cannot be understood by a mind trapped in duality – which is a mind that uses ordinary language to understand things because language defines each term in terms of an opposite term: we learn what hot means in terms of cold; we learn up in terms of down; we learn being in terms of nothingness etc. But God cannot be defined or characterized or in any way described or pointed at through language that is caught in this dualistic level of description. God is beyond both being and nothingness. . . . And so the Advaya doctrine, which is the one mostly offered in the Buddhist traditions, is that we cannot speak about God at all. And therefore what you can not speak about as Ludwig Wittgenstein came to understand himself (he’s one of the fathers of postmodern Western philosophy), what you cannot speak about, pass over in silence. And it is that silence that is at the heart of the spiritual traditions of both East and West.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, October 30, 2014.

Meditation: An Intense Act of Love – 10.23.14

Mon, 27 Oct 2014 17:53:06 -0600

Excerpt: “In the ancient world it was recognized that there was a bifurcation of the Real between being and appearance. Anything that appears in the world therefore is not; appearance means illusion. What has being does not appear in the world. But it has flipped completely in the postmodern period in which only that which appears seems real to the postmodern ego, and anything which can’t be grabbed onto is not real. This is the complete opposite of the way that every philosophical tradition for the last five thousand years – including the Western tradition – has understood being. That which has real being does not appear as an object in the world. It is the Source, the objects are the shadow of being, the reflection. But being itself is that which sends that shadow, it is the light, but when the light hits the mirage of the physical plane and we have appearances, that is a step removed from the Source: it has no being; it is a flux. And its reality must be interpreted by the human consciousness which is given the power to discern between that which is Real and that which is illusion. It’s based on using that discernment accurately that we live a life of purity and empowerment, but when we chose the illusion over the Real, that is what is called in Christianity the ‘original sin.’” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, October 23, 2014.

The Illusion of the Person – 09.02.13

Mon, 20 Oct 2014 19:00:46 -0600

Excerpt: ”. . . And once that simple shift has been made then consciousness lets go of its contraction and realizes itself as infinitely vast, timeless, fearless – and completely empowered to play one’s role in the dream with heroic courage, with infinite creative potential, and with generosity and love; with all the virtues and all the siddhis that yoga speaks about, because your true nature is divine. But you’ve traded the divine powers for the ego’s anxiety. And all that needs to be done is to reclaim that original nature that is unlimited and that is fearless, and completely un-contracted.” Recorded on the morning of Monday, September 2, 2013.

The New World is in the Heart – 10.13.14

Mon, 13 Oct 2014 17:36:12 -0600

Excerpt: ”We know that we are children of God, and that when all the veils of illusion have fallen away we are one with God. We know also that this world is almost gone. The old civilization is collapsing, the plagues are coming. Time is short. But God is here, and a new world is being born. It’s being born in your hearts. It’s being born in the beauty of your souls, in your love for the Creator and the Creation. It is your timeless and infinite Light that is giving birth to a new world that will form as the perfectly beautiful reflection of your Being.” Recorded on the afternoon of Monday, October 13, 2014.

The Self-Revelation of Reality – 10.08.13

Wed, 08 Oct 2014 20:51:35 -0600

Excerpt: ”Meditation is simply Reality’s self-revelation of itself, to itself. That revelation comes in the form of awareness which is revealed as our being; our nature is simply consciousness. And that consciousness reveals itself as luminous intelligence. And that luminous intelligence reveals itself as love. And the love reveals itself as bliss. And all of this reveals itself as the timeless presence of what we are now, in this moment of what we have always been and always shall be.” Recorded on the morning of Tuesday, October 8, 2013.

Once Upon a Timelessness – 09.30.14

Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:17:53 -0600

Excerpt: ”Once upon a timelessness there was only consciousness, all alone. And because consciousness dwelt in timelessness it was lonely, it is lonely, it will always be lonely – there is no other; this is its one sanskara. And it has no form, so it can’t even look in a mirror; has no name, there’s nothing to do. It has no TV, no Internet; it’s just consciousness, in infinite, eternal, boring bliss. So what is a poor lonely Supreme Self to do? It dreams up a world! And it dreams up very interesting worlds.” Recorded during the Timeless Truth retreat, on the morning of Tuesday, September 30, 2014.

Infinite, Unknowable Truth of Being – 09.18.14

Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:11:16 -0600

Excerpt: “One of the mantras that is popular now is actually a very young one; it’s only about 3000 years old. But before that – before this mantra ‘Sat Chit Ananda,’ which is now one of the core mantras – there was another one called ‘Satyam Gyanam Anantam,’ and this goes back many thousands of years earlier - which has a slightly different nuance - which basically says ‘I am the Truth of Being (Satyam), I am the Knowledge that is aware of that Truth.’ So it is a state of full consciousness but that knowledge is not the knowledge that is now called ‘ciencia.’ So it is toda ciencia trascendiendo, but it is still a kind of ciencia, but it is the science that is the knowledge of infinity. Anantam is infinity; it is not Ananda but Anantam. Because it is the recognition, the knowledge, that all of this that we perceive, we are. God is all that is, you are That.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, September 18, 2014.

Stop Meditating, Now! – 09.11.14

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:24:12 -0600

Excerpt: ”Anyone who meditates is committing a sin because you’re starting with the presumption that you’re separate from God and have to do something to reach God – when that illusion of separation is the ignorance, the sin – the original sin – and cannot be eliminated by that illusory ego making some effort to reach God – because where are you going to reach to if you’re already That? God is not an object somewhere out there, not a being you have to call on a phone, or have some telepathic connection with. There is no process by which you can reach God because any process simply takes you away from your own center. And so the only valid form of meditation is non-meditation.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, September 11, 2014.

Pure, Total Presence – 09.04.14

Mon, 08 Sep 2014 16:44:44 -0600

Excerpt: ”Pure and total presence precedes the interpretation of what is present. And it is through an inaccurate interpretation of what is present that the soul and then the ego illusions and the belief in an external world, and an internal world for that matter, are developed which create deeper and deeper levels of maya. The maya, or the illusion, is based on the mind’s wrong interpretation of what is present. But the presence itself is Truth and is the nature of our Being. That presence includes all of reality but the presence is not divided into separate individual entities. And it is the mistaken belief that this presence is seen from the perspective of a particular entity that then creates the I-thought from which the sense of self and of otherness enters in which creates alienation and duality and a loss of wholeness.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, September 4, 2014.

The Song of Liberation – 08.27.14

Tue, 02 Sep 2014 17:48:25 -0600

Excerpt: ”As the duration of the silence extends, an impulse to go back into the suffering arises – a very strange, paradoxical impulse. And it is this final death throe of the soul that becomes the last obstacle to letting go of maya. There is a preference to hold on to the agony, rather than to die into the peace. And as long as there is any shred of the soul left to try to control things, it will hold on to its death rattle, to its refusal to go gently into that good night . . . and it will rail against the dying of its false light. And it is at this point that there must be the power of surrender to the Absolute to let go of that peacelessness. And to face the transition into the silence which will first appear as a loss, and even as a strangulation of the soul, which in a way it is, as it is finally put to rest. . . . But once the step has been taken, and that Beyond recognized as the real home, as the ultimate abode, then everything becomes very, very simple. And as the attention turns toward the infinite and away from the finite, away from what has been lost from what has died, into what has been discovered, then the power of Love, the meaning of salvation, the truth of redemption, the energy that supports the universe, the stillness which contains all in potential form is recognized as the ground of one’s Being.” Recorded during the Death and Rebirth Retreat, on the morning of Wednesday, August 27, 2014.

The Liberation of Love - 08.14.14

Fri, 22 Aug 2014 20:27:57 -0600

Excerpt:” Consciousness begins to realize it’s Beingness, it’s I Am-ness that exists prior to the body that has nothing to do with the birth of the body or its processes of development that are all within the karmic field – but it recognizes that the karma, the world in which the body exists, the body-mind itself, is simply an object in consciousness that is a temporary vehicle of the I Am-ness. But that the I Am-ness is universal and is simply the expression of Love.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, August 14, 2014.

Do You Have an Opinion? – 08.07.14

Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:23:26 -0600

Excerpt: “Most of us spend our lives waiting for the miracle to come. But the philosophy of Sat Yoga is to realize that you are the miracle – and there’s nothing more to wait for. This should be the simplest concept, if you will, to realize. But it’s not because we hold too many opinions about ourselves – opinions that were formed when we were young that were actually other people’s opinions of us that we internalized and took in as if they were realities when they were merely projections. And so the miracle we’re waiting for is for someone to wipe off the board that we have in our minds with all of the bad opinions . . . but because it is your mind, only you can erase it.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, August 7, 2014.

SAT: Silent Absolute Transcendence – 04.29.13

Tue, 05 Aug 2014 10:51:09 -0600

Excerpt: ”Sat Yoga means the realization of Sat – which is the fundamental energy of the universe. But we can also think of it as an acronym, of course, as the Silence of Absolute Transcendence. Absolute transcendence means transcendence even of transcendence. Relative transcendence is consciousness, Purusha, separating from Prakriti. That’s the first step in meditation. Because the separation enables you to realize that you are not the body and not the mind. So it is the relative transcendence of the ego, and the localizability in matter; the separation from all concepts, including the concept of matter. But then one must transcend even the concept of transcendence. Even the concept of the Self.” Recoded in the afternoon of Monday, April 29, 2013.

Dare the Impossible – 07.26.14

Mon, 28 Jul 2014 16:04:14 -0600

Excerpt: “[The Sat Yoga School] has three basic intentions. One is to help you think the unthinkable. The second is to help you bear the unbearable. And the third is to help you dare the impossible. So let’s take these one at a time. Obviously most people don’t want to think the unthinkable, and there are different levels of un-think-ability. And the first level is really more the resistance to coming out of denial. It’s not that it’s really unthinkable, but “I don’t want to think about it” – it’s that level. And that has to do basically with prudence. Any prudent business person will have fallback positions in case of worst case scenarios. . . . Well, most people do not want to think about the fact that this entire system is about to collapse; that’s too much to deal with. . . . If you want a plan B, and if you want to think your way through this and to survive, then it’s worth thinking about this before it happens. . .” Recorded on the evening of Saturday, July 26, 2014.

The Four Pillars of the Ego – 07.17.14

Mon, 21 Jul 2014 15:57:07 -0600

Excerpt: ”Our teacher Sri Ramana says that the ego has four pillars. . . . And when we understand the pillars of the ego, because they are all delusional, it is easy to bring them down. And the four are co-dependent on one another. In developmental terms the first is Avidya, or ignorance; forgetfulness of our True Nature. And that forgetfulness makes us vulnerable to false beliefs to buying into preconceptions and impositions and false implications of language, and the belief, that what you see is what you get. And the belief in the implicit reality that there must be some thing that stands behind the appearance of the I-thought.” Recorded on the morning of Thursday, July 17, 2014.

Dwell as Bliss – 05.21.13

Tue, 15 Jul 2014 14:48:56 -0600

Excerpt: ”. . .But there’s no reason ever to leave the stillness of the perfection of what you are; that is already liberated from maya. You don’t notice that you simply create maya in order to then liberate yourself from it. It’s a nice game, but this “Yo" "Yo” game that you play just brings you back to square zero anyway – so why ever leave it? Recorded in the afternoon of Tuesday, May 21, 2013.

The Mystery of Inner Freedom – 07.03.14

Mon, 07 Jul 2014 13:52:40 -0600

Excerpt: “. . . And it’s only when you have entered deeply upon a path of Self discovery that you can even know what are the potentials that lie behind and beyond the event horizon of your current level of subjectivity – that offer miraculous powers and potencies for your own capacity to become and to realize yourself in this plane as the Infinite Being that you are. It is only when we constrain the ego mind and its weaknesses from acting out; its desire to regress, to take the easy path, the comfort zone, and never to dare those levels of your selfhood that are currently not yet known to you – because you are a mystery to yourself. But few of us explore that mystery. Most of us settle for an identity that we received from others that might just be adequate enough to make us a living, and to live a tolerable life, but never to know true ecstatic joy, bliss, and infinite fulfillment.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, July 3, 2014.

The Ego Has No Roots – 06.26.14

Tue, 01 Jul 2014 13:01:03 -0600

Excerpt: ”The ego is an unstable structure – and dependent upon the desire of others, the affirmation of others; what one takes as the love of others – but which is all always, at the level of ego, an narcissistic quid pro quo. To get beyond this impasse, we must dis-identify with any objective other, including the body that is considered one’s own. And to abide in silence and stillness, and inner aloneness without any co-dependence on any other, without any desire from any other – in oneness with the Supreme Self. This practice alone can liberate us; liberate consciousness from its suffering. The problem is, for the ego mind, that the Real Self is inconceivable. . .” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, June 26, 2014.

You are Total Presence, Now – 05.19.14

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 13:18:21 -0600

Excerpt: “. . . But that means that the Self that you are here to realize is not your individual self. It’s the universal Self, the Supreme Self. This is no small matter. This should not be taken lightly. You are endeavouring to enter the precinct of God, the throne room of God, the highest possible level of consciousness. And the good news is that when you get there you will realize that is your Self. But not the self you think you are now. That self cannot get even close to that throne room.” Recorded on the evening of Monday, May 19, 2014.

The Place of Unconditional Love – 06.12.14

Mon, 16 Jun 2014 13:12:26 -0600

Excerpt: All our suffering arises from “the I-thought: the thought that I am this or that; I am this body, this personality, this history, this chain of signifiers going off in my mind, language with its narratives, its scenarios and melodramas that create all the suffering. That thought is what splits your mind between the false ego, and the real Self. Separating you from God for as long as you choose ego, and at the same time beginning the life of suffering that is somehow preferable because although it is suffering, it contains the instant gratification of the bodily, sensory, phenomenal plain of the collapsed quantum wave in which free will has been lost and all is determined by that choice to fall into the illusory world and leave the world of bliss, of liberation, of truth.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, June 12, 2014.

Non Duality: The Core of all Traditions – 06.05.14

Tue, 10 Jun 2014 16:52:31 -0600

Excerpt: ”. . . And that this presence has always been there, it’s not something to attain in some other dimension; it’s here. But it’s here in the dimension that is other to the physical plane that witnesses it, that is the silent awareness that uses the instrument of the senses and the organism. But is a formless incorporeal eternal presence that forgets itself in its own true nature the moment it enters into language.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, June 5, 2014.

Presence is Salvation – 05.15.14

Mon, 19 May 2014 13:04:33 -0600

Excerpt: ”At this very moment you are the infinite Self. You are not the body who has a soul, or a spirit or a Self or a connection to the Super-Conscious, no. You are the Super-Conscious, you are the Self Supreme manifesting with a form in this phenomenal plane to make actual the highest potentialities in the mind of God as a reality in this plane. You are the Self. Your nature – right now – not in the future – right now – is total awareness. Your real Self – right now – is divine radiance, luminous intelligence, pristine, pure awareness. And it doesn’t matter if that is clouded by the ego mind, that’s completely irrelevant. All that is relevant is that you know who you are. And stop believing that you are a body, or a mind, a personality, an entity, that’s a precipitate out of the infinite Self; it is not you.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, May 15, 2014

Living in Joy – 05.08.14

Tue, 13 May 2014 11:50:12 -0600

Excerpt: ”We offer here not a twelve-step program, not even a one-step program. This is the world’s only zero-step program, which makes it the simplest and the hardest, because the mind cannot imagine taking zero steps, and therefore to get there you must realize you’re already there, and that underneath all the chatter of the mind, you are a zero. That’s what the mind is terrified of: discovering that there’s nothing behind it. Buddha discovered there was nothing behind it – he called it ‘Nirvana.’ But for the ego mind – the mind of the chatter – it’s called, ‘anxiety.’ So the first paradox to recognize is that anxiety is just a disguised form of bliss. So if you have a lot of anxiety, you really have a great deal of bliss, so know that it’s a great blessing. Don’t try to get rid of it, but you must recognize it from the right perspective. The perspective is everything.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, May 8, 2014.

Self Realization: A Return to Being – 02.06.14

Tue, 06 May 2014 13:30:14 -0600

Excerpt: ”It is attained very simply – because we are already That. There is nothing actually to be gained: it is simply returning from a state of false consciousness based on constructs and ideas that we learned within a context of a social system with agendas that were different from that of Truth. And so we are again learning to rest in the Truth of our Being. To realize this Truth . . . let go of all untruth. This means silencing the mind, it means letting go of all concepts, and learning again to be.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, February 6, 2014.

Reality is a Holographic Matrix – 04.24.14

Wed, 30 Apr 2014 05:24:00 -0600

Excerpt: “[Reading from a Ramana Maharshi text] ‘However much, one may explain, the fact will not become clear till one attains self-realization and wonders how one was blind to the self-evident and only existence for so long.’ So none of this could be explained, because the ego mind is not capable of grasping it, for many reasons. One, it takes the succession of events in time as real. It takes this dream of reality – that it calls reality because it labels it as such – as being something different from that state you’re in in deep sleep when there is no external reality. And it makes a false distinction between the dream and the waking state. All are simply the manifestations of the one unchanging Self.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, April 24, 2014.

Remembering to Forget – 04.03.14

Tue, 08 Apr 2014 17:59:16 -0600

Excerpt: ”Often we think of Yoga as a spiritual journey, and that we are seekers – but actually it’s the end of the journey; it’s the realization that there is nothing to seek. But the journey of experience through life has concluded with our wisdom, our understanding, that the goal is actually to be: not to become, not to experience, but to return to the original Self that has always been there, but that we have forgotten. So it is simply our willingness to be. In that realization of our beingness comes the recognition that we are already perfect; we are already filled with the Supreme knowledge. We are constituted of the supernal light, the divine light, that is the emanation of God, and the term God refers only to the Self that we have forgotten and projected into some other dimension. . .” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, April 3, 2014.

The Way to Silence – 03.27.14

Tue, 01 Apr 2014 18:15:41 -0600

Excerpt: ”. . . This school is dedicated to help you answer those questions. But not to answer them theoretically, because theory is, frankly, empty; talk is cheap. The answer lies in the silence of the heart. The answers emerge when we are at peace, when we have found our center. And many people think ‘Well, yes, but my question is how do I find that center? How do I open the heart?’ But it happens, not actually by making some kind of difficult effort, but simply allowing yourself to be. It’s simply a very radical self-acceptance. But what we have to come to accept is the fact that we don’t really know who we are or have the answers to those questions, at the surface level; they are not in our minds and they are not our in the world. But they are present as that very silence.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, March 27, 2014.

The Infinite Beauty of the Self – 03.13.14

Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:54:54 -0600

Excerpt: ”Asparsa has two meanings depending on how subtle that you wish to take it. The first meaning means to come out of imprisonment, but the way you get out of imprisonment is by going in – not out; there is no escape out there. The prison is the belief in the out there and the belief that you are a creature with a physical body. That objectification of your own nature and of the nature of reality is the imprisonment. So the way in means to come back into your subjectivity and into the fullness of pure consciousness that is not determined by laws of nature or ideologies or belief systems of any kind or material gratifications or inflictions of pain and suffering.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, March 13, 2014.

Finding the Innermost Source – 03.06.14

Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:19:46 -0600

Excerpt: ”The human psyche is extraordinarily complex, and, at the same time, amazingly simple. That’s the first paradox that we have to face in reality . . . . it’s important to be able to think paradoxically and break through illusions that are based on what seem to be contradictory opposites that are both true. So, the mind has a number of different levels to it. Many of us tend to live on the outer most level of the mind and not go too far inward because they either get scared or there is a repressive block to knowing too much; there is some kind of programming that makes certain knowledge forbidden to you, etc. So that first level of the psyche identifies with the physical body. And therefore it is subject to fear of that body’s death or its pain or it’s subject to desire on a bodily level, it’s subject to anger when it doesn't get its bodily needs met, it’s subject to all kinds of hysterical meltdowns, due to the fact that it is identified with a perishable object. So, according to the logic of that level of the mind, it makes sense to be in a fragile and vulnerable state of consciousness and to defend against that vulnerability with all kinds of bravado or evasion or avoidance or of different kinds of personality quirks and strategies in order to not have to put oneself at risk because one feels always that one is at risk in a world that is dangerous. . .” Recorded in the evening of Thursday, March 6, 2014.

The Maha Shivratri – 02.27.14

Mon, 03 Mar 2014 17:41:39 -0600

Excerpt: ”Tonight is the thirteenth night of Shukla Paksha according to the ancient Vedic lunar calendar. For those who worship Shiva, the most ancient name for the Supreme Being, this is the holiest night of the year – it’s referred to as ‘Maha Shivratri,’ the great night of Shiva. The worship of Shiva carried on, secretly, in the form of late-coming Shiva cults such as Judaism and Christianity. In Judaism, the holiday of “Maha Shivratri” became known as Pesach or ‘Passover.’ And of course in Christianity it has two forms: one is the last supper and the crucifixion, but the most true rendition of “Maha Shivratri” is the represented in the Book of Revelations as the apocalypse.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, February 27, 2014.

A Focused Mind – 02.11.14

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 19:40:13 -0600

Excerpt: “Meditation is a practice of freedom. And it’s practiced because the consciousness begins in a state of un-freedom. Meditation is the cure for our addiction to thinking. The mind is out of control, it’s the primary addiction. People can’t stop their minds from running away with them. Minds are in chaos, filled with negative thoughts, chaotic thoughts, thoughts that people don’t want to have but can’t stop. It turns out that all the other addictions are actually attempts to cure that addiction. The reason that people smoke cigarettes, or pot, or take other drugs or alcohol is to try to stop their mind. You can be a little more peaceful – but then you’ve got a worse problem, now you’ve got another addiction to deal with on top of the first one, and that one has other consequences. And then usually people try to stop those with others, they get into some other kind of obsessive practice, and life becomes one set of obsessions on top of another. When a much easier solution is to simply be free of the non-productive, chaotic secretion of thoughts in the mind.” Recorded on the evening of Tuesday, February 11, 2014.

All You Need is Nothing – 06.11.13

Tue, 04 Feb 2014 14:23:35 -0600

Excerpt: ”. . .Because God doesn’t need to know anything. And that non-knowing comes from having transcended the need to know, not from not having reached it. It comes from an overflowing realization that what you are is all you need to know – because you are complete in yourself. And that realization transforms the lack and the desire to grasp and to continue that process of seeking and controlling that is futile, into the final letting go that brings the bliss of union with the Supreme Being.” Recorded in the afternoon of Tuesday, June 11, 2013.

The Direct and Indirect Path – 01.28.14

Tue, 04 Feb 2014 14:04:41 -0600

Excerpt: ”. . . This is a classic example of what Baba Hari Dass used to call “headache yoga,” perhaps the ultimate headache – but worth it if you need to undo a lot of false beliefs about who you are; the book will do it. But if you can just let go of those false beliefs you can skip to the hundredth verse. . . . And verse one hundred actually sums up the whole book, it is the core of the core, and it’s the only verse you need to read . . .” Recorded on the evening of Tuesday, January 28, 2014.

The Road to Happiness – 01.18.14

Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:17:08 -0600

Excerpt: “. . . [Yoga is] the science of consciousness. It’s the science of how to develop the full potential of our consciousness – because we are not born with an instruction manual as to how to do that. But we have many higher centers of our mind, not just our brain but our mind, our soul, our spirit, that need to be activated in a systematic manner in order to be able to unfold the full powers that are latent in us. They call them siddhis in yogic terminology. And there are seven major modalities that emerge, naturally. The first one is an increase in our intelligence because as you go inward you have access to more of the wisdom that comes from the deeper levels of your mind, and you see reality in a more subtle way. . .” Recorded on the evening of Saturday, January 18, 2014.

Retreat: Enlightenment Now - Thanks Giving

Wed, 25 Dec 2013 14:05:24 -0600

Shunyamurti addresses the importance of giving thanks - at the Enlightenment Now retreat.

The Teachings of Christ – 12.19.13

Tue, 24 Dec 2013 17:27:25 -0600

Excerpt: ”Christianity is one of the most potent forces in the world. Both the Christian myth and the Christian teachings are of extreme importance to us all. In some sense I think the world has not even been ready for Christianity until now. A true Christianity may only be beginning to emerge. Much of what has passed for Christianity in the passed has actually been a defence against the teachings of Christ – a fear of them, a denial of them even in the form of worshipping Christ. For one thing Christ taught that the love of money is the root of all evil, and yet we’ve created a society based on the love of money, and we’ve called it a Christian society, something’s wrong with that picture. . .” Recorded in the evening of Thursday, December 19, 2013.

One Mind, One Intelligence – 12.12.13

Mon, 16 Dec 2013 21:07:49 -0600

Excerpt: ”. . . And so this concept of Hanmaum (One Mind) is central to every true path of spirituality. That our individual minds are a subset of a larger mind and then a larger, and a larger, and ultimately there is one single intelligence that flows through all of the myriads of life forms and even what we think of as inanimate objects. They all participate in the same ultimate intelligence. And thus the entire universe is intelligent. And if there are parallel universes they are included in this as well. Everything that can possibly be is part of a single intelligence that includes all the past, the present, and the future – which is all now to that intelligence. Because that intelligence that is beyond space and time creates, sustains, destroys universes, recreates them, it all happens within a timeless instant. But that timeless instant for any given creature within a universe can last centuries or millennia. But time is an illusion from that perspective. But the key teaching about Hanmaum is: you are that intelligence.” Recorded in the evening of Thursday, December 12, 2013.

Three Stage Purification of Mind – 05.06.13

Mon, 18 Nov 2013 17:48:58 -0600

Excerpt: “. . .But what the great yogis say is that in order to see God, your mind has to have been trained, purified, in three stages. The first stage is truthful mind. If the mind is not in Truth with itself, and with God, in integrity, in sincerity, earnestness, openness, transparency, maturity, willingness to let go of ones illusions and delusions then nothing more will happen; then you need a drug. But if the truthful mind is achieved, there will be an automatic flow into the next stage. . .” Recorded on the afternoon of Monday, May 6, 2013.

Reclaiming Our Power – 06.04.13

Mon, 11 Nov 2013 17:22:31 -0600

Excerpt: ”. . .In the same way Christianity says body consciousness is a sin – but really, yogis’ view of it is that it’s worse than a sin; it’s stupid. The idea of sin is itself sinful because it takes place within the same framework of ignorance and duality; that’s the problem. We have to get out of that whole framework because all that does is lead to more judgements, super ego attacks, and a quicksand of self-loathing that is useless for anyone on a spiritual path. So we have to get the fact that what we’re doing when we’re meditating is we are accumulating power. It’s as simple as that: do you want to be powerful or do you want to be weak?” Recorded in the afternoon of Tuesday, June 4, 2013.

The Caterpillar and the Butterfly – 05.07.13

Wed, 30 Oct 2013 16:27:28 -0600

Excerpt: ”Carl Jung, in his approach to transformation, had no interest in child development . . . he was only interested in people going through a midlife crisis. He didn’t do child therapy, he didn’t do adolescent therapy — he didn’t even feel it was appropriate to do that. What he felt was missing from Western culture was that process of the cocoon in which the caterpillar would enter to become the butterfly. And he wanted his approach to be that cocoon where the transformation could happen to the ultimate development of human capacity.” Recorded on the afternoon of Tuesday, May 7, 2013.

Opinions Imprison Us – 10.14.13

Mon, 21 Oct 2013 18:02:16 -0600

Excerpt: “The prison that our consciousness is in is made up of the opinions of others. And when you let go of your belief in those opinions, which often comes with anger at those opinions or a seduction by those opinions or any other attitude toward them, then they become the identity of the consciousness with all of the fine print and the limitations that those identifications come along with. And so the spiritual process is simply letting go of those opinions. . . .” Recorded in the afternoon of Monday, October 14, 2013.

Overdose – on Bliss! – 10.09.13

Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:19:55 -0600

Excerpt: ”. . .And by doing that we have kept our heart closed. And the power of our heart’s energy of love emerges in a state of devotion. Devotion is what realigns us with the universe so that the power of attraction will become manifest. But we have to be first attracted to the source of what is real in the universe for that source to feed us with grace and blessings. And our devotion to that True Self is essential, and that is what nourishes us, because the more devotion we give the more love we receive, the more light the more flow of divine energy of shakti moves through us. And people are afraid of overdosing on that light and that love; there is a terror of love. Because the more devoted you are the more you find that the defense mechanisms that you created to protect yourself against others have to fall away. You become more vulnerable, you become more open, more transparent. But through that devotion, you are then able to speak Truth, you are then able to act courageously, and to triumph over all negative feelings, inner demons or outer ones, nothing will stop you in that state of devotion. And the more you offer, the more you get back.” Recorded in the evening of Wednesday, October 9, 2013.

The Courage to Be True – 10.03.13

Mon, 07 Oct 2013 11:34:23 -0600

Excerpt: ”We’re like people who own a mansion with a hundred floors and a thousand rooms, and we’re living in the entrance hall. And we feel like we’re impoverished and we’re stuck in this tiny little space. And we don’t dare to look at the whole place we have! Our consciousness is infinite. We have so many latent powers, that if we knew about them, we would be in astonishment right now, in bliss, just exploring the treasures that are there waiting for us to start using.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, October 3, 2013.

Don’t Worry, Be Egoless – 09.12.13

Mon, 16 Sep 2013 21:15:08 -0600

Excerpt: ”Many people don’t know that Bobby McFerrin got those words from a poster he saw of Meher Baba, who was one of the great spiritual teachers of the last century. . . .And the full message was not just ‘don’t worry, be happy,’ it was ‘do your best, then don’t worry. Be happy in My love, I will help you.’ This is of course being spoken as the voice of God. And so out of context, the ‘don’t worry be happy,’ is like whistling past the graveyard. But if you’re happy in God’s love, then you will receive power, grace, support, energy, shakti, to succeed in what you’re doing. And if what you’re doing is an act of karma yoga, is an act of service, is not simply for the ego’s pleasure or benefit, but to serve God and serve the world, then you will be happy because you will receive God’s love, and you will receive God’s help.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, September 12, 2013.

Rosh Hashanah, Returning to Shiva – 09.05.13

Thu, 05 Sep 2013 18:46:37 -0600

Excerpt: “. . .But the reason that religions have holidays is to express symbolically what can otherwise not be understood by the ego mind – using actual conditions of the physical universe in order to express some very deep insights into the nature of reality that were conferred by the Supreme Being. So there’s a little known Shiva cult that was a late arrival on the scene in human history that left India and entered into the Middle East, and the people who were Shiva worshipers became known later as Jews. And the name Jehovah and Shiva, one derives from the other. And this happens to be the main holiday of this Shiva worshiping group, called Rosh Hashanah.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, September 5, 2013.

Return to Simplicity – 08.29.13

Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:53:55 -0600

Excerpt: ”In the west, since the ascendence of the roman church there has been a sense that humans are distant from God, from ultimate reality, and that you need som kind of intermediary, you need a priest or you need someone to advocate for you and you need some kind of rituals and a prayer book to know what to say to God. It’s a very formal thing you know, it’s some distant king that you’re suppose to get to visit via some, help by someone else but you never get to have direct contact. And then of course from that point from there it goes to the point that he’s so distant he doesn’t even exist. And the idea of an ultimate reality has been eclipsed and eliminated in the modern western mind set. Which leaves the ego in hedgeomanic control of our societies, untamed by the higher power of goodness and the ego that doesn’t surrender to a higher Truth and a higher level of integrity and sacrifice, then creates a world of the kind we’re now living in.” Recorded in the evening of Thursday, August 29, 2013.

Two Valued Logic – 08.22.13

Mon, 26 Aug 2013 15:52:40 -0600

Excerpt: “What is the ego? It is simply the mind operating according to two valued logic… that's all it is…. Two valued logic is absolutely absurd, and we can blame Aristotle for it... but he was the first philosopher who maintained that you need to analyze reality according to two valued logic… before that everyone was in infinite logic – it was totally different…. Two valued logic is recognized in the bible as the cause of the fall of man – why Adam and Eve got kicked out…. What was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? That’s two valued logic. That this is either good, or evil… This is true or false, up or down. Everything is this or that, and once you are caught in believing that then you are caught in a prison in which you can no longer be whole, because the truth is that you are this and that… and neither of the above… and all of the above… and beyond any of the above… that’s the truth, and so when you have to follow two valued logic, you have to cut off and split most of your mind and repress it… that what Jung called the shadow… everything that you were not allowed to be, you had to repress… Thursday, August 22, 201

Cut the Rope – 08.01.13

Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:46:49 -0600

Excerpt: “All of us are travellers through space and time, eternal travellers, and yet eternally never moving at all, but enjoying the illusion of the dream that brings richness and joy and learning, even through pain and suffering, the learning of the lessons that bring about wisdom and freedom and re-empowerment as we go through the labyrinth forgetting we are the One Self and then remembering again – playing peek-a-boo with the Self. And there’s nothing really to do in this act of remembrance except to let go of the forgetfulness, to let go of all of the thoughts that are based in the illusion and not in the Witness. And when one returns to the self-luminous, infinite intelligence that is pure consciousness all of the suffering of the dream falls away, all the fears, desires, egoic identities drop away very easily without any struggle.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, August 1, 2013.

Melting the Ego – 07.11.13

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:04:26 -0600

Excerpt: ”Meditation is the practice of melting away the ego. What we are melting away are the fixed thoughts that create patterns of suffering, repetitive patterns of behavior and emotional states that produce pain for ourselves and for others. And so as we melt it down we free ourselves and the world from that pain and the energy that was locked up in those painful patterns is liberated. We are not liberated, but the pain is liberated – because we are not the ego, it’s a mistake to think you are the ego. But the ego is a structure, that has grown, in the psyche, in the mind, that needs to be dissolved in order for there to be the full freedom of the potential of the ground of your Being to emerge with all of its creativity and love and will.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, July 11, 2013.

Atonement, Attunement, At-one-ment – 07.04.13

Thu, 04 Jul 2013 16:52:24 -0600

Excerpt: “As you all know the Sat Yoga Institute is a school. It’s not just a place to come to meditate, but to do more than that. And the process begins with the Trivium which is a braid of three different processes that have to happen simultaneously for the process to be effective. It involves Translation, which is a paradigm shift – which is the conceptual understanding of the spiritual path so you will at least be able to explain to yourself why you’re going through this ordeal – because unless you can justify this to your own ego mind, there is no reason to put up with the suffering that it entails. But when there is a clear conceptual understanding of why you’re going through this experience, and what the benefits are, then the ordeal actually becomes very joyous, and not really filled with that much suffering. The transformational dimension of the Trivium is where the suffering is located. . .” Recorded on the evening of Thusday, July 4, 2013.

Freedom is Your True Nature – 13.06.13

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:09:58 -0600

Excerpt: “. . . But in the spiritual field in India they do talk about four powers that are latent within you that must be remembered in order to realize the freedom that is your true nature. And they talk about this in mythological terms. And often they refer to them as the Power of Rama, the Power of Sita, the Power of Hanuman, the Power of Mrityunjay. You all know these powers because you have them, you use them on a daily basis – but we can go over them since we have to talk about something. The Power of Hanuman. . .” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, June 13, 2013.

Focus Without a Break – 06.06.13

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:51:43 -0600

Excerpt: “. . . And so to know the Unknowable Self means to allow yourself to be – without moving, without distraction, without shifting your attention from the Self to any object or any thought, idea, image, emotion – anything that would take you away from the knower – until the very sense of being a knower dissolves in the knowing and there is only this energy that is awareness but without any source and without any object – it is the ground of the field of Being itself. And the reason that the ego mind has difficulty doing this is that it always wants to grasp onto certain attributes that it can objectify. And the awareness has no attributes, all the attributes have been projected into the world, which is a reflection of the Self, but the Self is attributeless, ‘Nirguna’. ‘Emptiness’ in the Buddhist terminology. . . .” Recoded on the evening of Thursday, June 6, 2013.

Don’t Buy the Program 05.30.13

Thu, 30 May 2013 12:14:28 -0600

Excerpt: "... But there is a command, within the ego itself, never to silence the mind, never stop thinking, always got to produce thoughts; if you don't produce you're a failure. And so you got to be willing not to produce anything, but to be. Without putting any demands on yourself, or on anyone else, or giving in to anyone’s demands on you. Create a space of freedom to rediscover who you are without starting from any programming, whether that programming has to do with the gender of the body, or the age, or the nationality, or the religion, or the culture, or any of the other factors that determine the stream of thoughts in the mind – but prior to any thoughts, to when there was pure presence, when you were really aware of being, when the world really had this heightened presence, for you, and everything was new and astonishing. Let's return to that state.

And it's very easy to do because you don't do anything, just be. And if the production wants to happen, just go back with the question ‘What is the I, what is the awareness that is watching or listening to these thoughts being produced?’ And you keep going back to that ground of thoughts that are trying to arise and realize that there is a non-arising presence to whom the thoughts are arising. And then just focus on that non-arising presence. And you will find it's already peaceful, it's already happy, it doesn't need anything, it's not angry, there is no desire, has no fear – it's quite content..." Recorded on the evening of Thursday, May 30, 2013.

The Waves of the Ocean – 05.23.13

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:49:58 -0600

Excerpt: “…In any case Tilopa reduced the whole meditation process to three phrases; they’re easy you can’t forget these. The first one is: no distraction. That may seem simple but it’s not. Second one: no contrivances. Third one: no meditation. What!? These are meditation instructions; no meditation, very interesting. So then the question is, are these commands? Are they descriptions of the state you reach in meditation? Are they qualities of your true Being? Of course they’re in the negative so we are in the via negativa here, he’s not describing what you are or what that state is, he’s just describing what not to do, to be. But, let’s look at it more deeply…” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, May 23, 2013.

Relax from Yourself – 05.09.13

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:17:27 -0600

Excerpt: “…And the minute we let go and really relax and forget the ego, or remember that we are not the ego, remember that we are pure potentiality, pure presence, that is inherently without mental activity – it transcends the mind, the real presence of your being, mind is only a tool that is used on limited occasions but otherwise you’re in the silence of Infinite mind, not limited linguistic-based mind. And to live in that Self, is to be free, is to be independent, finally, of all the conditionings and all of the self-limitations. And all of the illusions and the ignorance that come with identifying with a body and an ego mind…” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, May 9, 2013.

Saying Yes to God – 05.02.13

Thu, 02 May 2013 18:20:35 -0600

Excerpt: “Sat Yoga is the art of living in the state of love. Love is our natural state. But we have become denaturalized by accepting the programming and the conditioning of the ego mind. The ego mind is generally not in a state of love – which is not news to you I can see. It’s usually in a very judgmental state and mostly attacking others for being judgmental – which is the most self-righteous way of being judgmental – but also attacking oneself, feeling negative and lacking and all the games that the ego plays in order to make itself miserable that we know all too well so I won’t belabor that point, because I’m not here to keep you in that state of misery. I would like you to see that that’s not our natural state or our real state, and it was simply an indoctrination into misery because that is how you become adapted to social living and accept the miserable conditions that most people have to live in. But we don’t have to accept that. We can change our world by changing our perception of who we are and what this reality is...” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, May 2, 2013.

The Power of Divine Magic – 04.18.13

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:00:39 -0600

Excerpt: “This is a school of magic. Are you all interested in magic? Do you all realize that you are magical beings? Do you? But there is a difference between being a magical being and being a magician. To become a magician you must train your magical potential to be fully actualized. Western civilization can be understood as the sustained effort to repress magic. That’s its whole purpose – to repress white magic; there is plenty of black magic around. For the last 2000 years that has been the main intention of the forces that have been running this civilization, to disenchant the world. Why? Because you can’t control magicians; you can’t control sorcerers; you can’t control great shamans; you can’t control the Magi, so whenever they saw a magus, they would eliminate him. They wanted to eliminate white magic because white magic, when there are enough magicians . . . coming together to create an energy field of divine magic the world can be transformed, and they know that.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, April 18, 2013.

Spinning Out of Illusion – 04.11.13

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:17:24 -0600

Excerpt: “So the realization of God begins with the understanding that what we mean by that term is the ultimate, supersensory apperception that you are capable of. It’s not simply extrasensory perception; that psychics do, they can see subtle energies and be aware of things that are happening in the external plane. It’s not simply extrasensory perception. It’s supersensory, it’s beyond the sensual realm – including the subtle level of sensuality – and it is not a perception but an apperception, which means that what is being perceived is the one doing the perceiving; there is no duality in God. And therefore you can never know God as long as you want to be a perceiver of God because God does not exist as an object. The atheists are right, but they are also very wrong because they don’t understand that in the same way you have to cultivate a taste for music like this – and many people in the world would not have said this is beautiful; if you would play some death rock they would have said ‘yeah that’s great!’ or ‘that’s wicked’ or whatever term is now the equivalent of ‘I like it.’ But you need to cultivate a taste for beauty, for goodness, and particularly for the Supreme Beauty and the Supreme Goodness that we’re talking about when we signify the word God or any ultimate reality term that is an equivalent whether Buddha-nature, Nirvana, etc. etc.” Recorded in the evening of Thursday, April 11, 2013.

Yoga: The Understanding of Complex Systems – 04.04.13

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:40:37 -0600

Excerpt: “People think that complexity is a relatively new scientific discipline, and in the modern world it is, but it’s a very ancient concept. And the first full development of that is in the form of the net of Indra. The net of Indra is the most significant concept to come out of Vedic and Buddhistic thought and got explicated most fully on HuaYen Buddhism but it existed long before that. And that is the understanding that reality is not based on closed systems with independent or contesting territories but is a network of interconnecting subsystems within a larger hyper-complex system, in which there is harmony and unity that overlies any sense of difference. And so when we can begin to map the complexity of the ego-system, we rise to the soul level which is a hyper-complex system which is an assemblage of hyper-complex systems that extends overtime because the soul reincarnates and up to the point of understanding an entire cycle of time with all of the complexity of the permutations of time itself. And then you get to the higher level of ultra-complex systems at the level of the Atman. And this is an assemblage of hyper-complex system that includes many different universes, many different independent levels of functioning but that are all part of a harmony at the highest level. And so as we go up to higher and higher of levels of consciousness, what they are, are higher levels of complexity and at the very highest level of infinite complexity you reach absolute simplicity.” Recorded in the evening of Thursday, April 4, 2013.

The Ego is a Bad Cling – 03.21.13

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:29:51 -0600

Excerpt: “...And while the Buddhists are accurate in saying ‘yes you need to live in the Two Truths’; there is a conventional reality and Ultimate Reality and for purposes of dealing with conventional reality, keeping your bank account balanced and dealing with people at the phenomenal plane who are in that illusion, you need to be able to deal with it – but you can only deal with it without suffering if you are beyond it in the Ultimate Reality. So the idea of any spiritual path is not to leave the conventional reality behind, but to recognize that even this split between Ultimate Reality and conventional reality, is a convention. And that you don’t believe in it, you free yourself from any ‘naive realism,’ that accepts this world created by the illusion of the ego as real so that you will not suffer from the events in this world or from the ignorance that generalizes to having many consequences, unintended as well as intended, so that you can live in this world as a being of wisdom, a being in peace without neurotic or psychotic suffering, and without even the ordinary suffering that Freud says you cannot get beyond. Pain perhaps won’t end but suffering over whatever seems to be going ‘wrong,’ doesn’t have to be part of one’s world, one’s umwelt. That can be left behind. And that’s the only practical benefit of the spiritual quest, is that you have left that behind and you can act in the world wisely. But always knowing that the one who is acting in the world – to bring peace, order, greater happiness, etc. – is an illusion.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, March 21, 2013.

The Mystery Beyond Mythstories – 03.14.13

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:31:49 -0600

Excerpt: “… Because the ego mind is a knot based on the unproven premise that the ‘I’ is the body. And it builds its entire life on that false belief, that ‘I am a body’ and ‘the body is material.’ And it’s upon that premise, false though it be, that remains tenaciously the foundation of the ego, that it will not let go of, that is the cause of all our suffering. Because once there is a body in a physical universe there is fear, there is lack, there is anxiety, there is desire, there is disappointment, there is despair; the whole wheel of egoic life stems from that false belief. And it’s to undo that false belief, not just theoretically but really, which changes our entire psychology and frees us from the torments of ego consciousness. In principle it’s very easy. And it’s easier today because modern science, particularly quantum physics, supports the understanding that the world is not real; the universe is information, and information requires a knower, and the knower is consciousness. So it is no longer even scientifically sustainable to believe ‘I am a body’: ‘I am consciousness’ is the prevailing scientific understanding. “ Recorded on the evening of Thursday, March 14, 2013.

The Treasure is at Home – 03.07.13

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:18:22 -0600

Excerpt: “…So this is the problem in most people’s lives, if he’d gotten the dream saying just dig under your own kitchen he probably wouldn’t have listened to it, but it told him to go to Russia; OK, it’s enough of an ordeal maybe there’s truth to it. It’s the need to do something exotic, the need to do something outlandish and to pass through some ordeal that gives something credibility. This path is just too easy because you don’t have to do anything on this path, just be yourself, what could be easier than that? There’s no method, there’s no system, there’s no approach, there’s no drug you have to take, there’s no danger, there’s no side-effects. It’s boring, isn’t it? Just be yourself.

But nobody want to be themselves, they want to be someone else. They want to go on some long exotic journey somewhere, only – always – to discover that what you were looking for was back home, was yourself. You are the Atman, you don’t have to wait for some message to come in an altered state of consciousness. You have altered your own state of consciousness by creating the ego – the ego is an altered state. It’s a state in which you’ve lost touch with your real consciousness; it’s not a higher altered state but a lower one that you chose to identify with. But all you have to recognize is that who you really are in your very natural state, if you’re not too manic depressive, is quiet presence…” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, March 07, 2013.

The Necessity of Love – 02.28.13

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:46:33 -0600

Excerpt: “We are here to rediscover who we are, what we have forgotten about our deep Self, to dive beneath the surface, beneath body-consciousness, and even deeper than soul-consciousness, to discover the Spirit, the Absolute Self, that always abides eternally, peacefully, blissfully within. This is our divine essence, and we have come together to discover our divine essence, and then to share our divine essence with one another, to create an energy field in which that essence is able to fill everyone with that same power of truth, of love, of joy. And so meditation is not some serious business where you have to be very sober and solemn – it might seem that from outside, but in truth we are here to rediscover that within us which is always joyous. It’s said in every religious tradition that God is love, ultimate love, ultimate bliss, the bliss of overwhelming, overflowing infinite love. Can you imagine that state? Can you imagine living in that, and realizing that that is who you are?” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, February 28, 2013.

What is Prayer? – 02.28.13

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:08:54 -0600

Student Question: What is prayer? And what is the meaning of it, and how to pray?

What are Nightmares? – 02.28.13

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:05:39 -0600

Student Question: What are nightmares? Why is it that nightmares are the dreams that affect me most and that I remember the most?

The Diamond in the Lotus – 02.21.13

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:33:15 -0600

Excerpt: “…You can do it through Ramana’s approach which is simply to ask – but ask wordlessly, not using thoughts – ‘Who am I?’ ‘What is the I?’ ‘What is the source of the I?’ and keep going within until you’ve cleared out the thoughts and there is pure presence. And then hold the presence, examine it, palpate it, observe it, feel the quality of pure presence; without creating a discourse about it, without creating and trying to capture it in some net of words – but abiding in the silence of Presence. And if you do that for long enough, this Presence that is pure, unalloyed by any conditioned thinking, will accumulate an energy field, it will spread, it will grow, if you cultivate the silence moment by moment without falling back into ego thoughts, it will gradually wash away the conditioned thoughts; it will extinguish them. And it will leave your entire space of consciousness clear, peaceful, calm, filled with joy, filled with that original state of freedom, without any kind of conditionings or script that you may have been living by, but now completely open in life to the spontaneity of your own heart. Not controlled by any thoughts that were planted there in the ego by your parents, or schools, or society, but free to discover and to live out the truth of your being. And that’s when life becomes very interesting…” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, February 21, 2013.

Pranayama: Vibration Control – 02.07.13

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:17:58 -0600

Excerpt: “In the old days, meaning about 20 centuries ago, when the yogis first realized that this problem existed – because it didn’t exist before then but in the early period of Kali Yuga when minds already started to vibrate with a much more unhealthy frequency and instability, much less though then now of course – they invented certain techniques. One of them is called Pranayama; breathing exercises.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, February 7, 2013.

Enter the Nothingness with Contentment – 01.24.13

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:05:04 -0600

Excerpt: “Tonight’s gathering is about meditation, which is the core activity of this community. The goal of meditation is a simple one – it’s to reach the state of contentment. You’d think that would be very easy, and yet contentment is probably the highest state that the human being can reach. And it’s a virtue that contains all other virtues. Because if you’re really content with what you have, and are not seeking from some state of lack, then you are beyond suffering; you’re at peace. You are liberated from most of the ills that plague human kind. How many people do you know who are in a state of contentment, real contentment? And so it’s a very odd paradox that here we are aspiring to be content. Is that possible? To want to be in a state in which there are no wants. And to understand that paradox we have to recognize that the ego mind, the ordinary state of consciousness that most people take for granted as their real self is not the real Self, but is a construct; it’s artificial. You weren’t born with your current identity – you built it; it was a work of art. Of course you did this work of art when you were about three years old, and so you might want to redo it. Because you put together – to create your identity – a little bit of your mother, a little bit of your father, a little bit of other family members, a little bit of the community, a little bit of the information overload that you were getting from TV, etc. And you created this, modified it over the first five or so years of your life and then you assumed that that’s who you were – and even when you repressed that and created a more adult-like personality, that remained underneath, a child, wanting to be an adult and feeling lack of power, lack of worthiness, lack of capacity to achieve your goals, lack of a sense of feeling lovable or deserving. And so the lacks get built into the structure of the ego mind, even if you’re not aware of it because it’s repressed to a lower level of consciousness, it’s usually there and arises either as symptoms or anxiety or inhibitions, or other pathologies of behavior of attitude of thinking and of emotion. And so to be in a state of contentment, which is our real state, we have to find out who we really are underneath this ego construct, and then, if we wish, we can modify that construct and make it reflect the contentment of our real Being.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, January 24, 2013.

Not Permanent, Not Real – 01.17.13

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:53:47 -0600

Excerpt: “… When you think about it you realize that consciousness is the only, I shouldn’t say thing it’s not a thing, but it’s the only element of your reality that doesn’t change. Your mind changes, the contents of your consciousness do. You have different ideas today, hopefully than you had 20 years ago, and you’ll have different ideas in the future. So your ideas change, you can’t be defined by your ideas, and most of them aren’t real either, they’re just things you heard about and decided to believe in and usually you find out too late that it wasn’t true. So your mind isn’t real – it’s just a flux of impermanent thoughts that ultimately don’t refer to any deeper reality of a self. They’re mostly imported from other people based on their ideas of what you should think you are, to suit their needs. So if the body is not real and the mind isn’t real and neither of them have any real reference to you, and the only thing that remains unchanging is something that doesn’t even have a form at all, it’s simply awareness, then that’s the only place to explore. It’s very clear – and why all of the sages, philosophers of all of West and East have agreed that, OK, if we’re going to find anything real at all, we’re going to find it in our awareness.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, January 17, 2013.

Being Stung by the Great WASP – 01.16.13

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:15:35 -0600

Excerpt: “… That silence usually doesn’t become tempting until the mind is filled with such disgusting elements, or ones externalized reality is filled with such negative karma that one wants to escape into the silence. But then you are haunted by it; it is very hard to escape when you’ve got burdens of negative karma chasing you. And so that’s the only reason to follow a life that is led in integrity according to the dharma, both the horizontal and the vertical dharma. That’s the cross that we must be crucified on so that we can ascend. By living in integrity at least our conscience won’t bite us. But we must be stung by the Great WASP…” Recorded in the afternoon of Wednesday, January 16, 2013.

Being the Mystery! – 01.10.13

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:27:12 -0600

Excerpt: “We are here to practice yoga. Yoga is the ancient science of consciousness. How do you practice a science? It is through the exploration of your consciousness. And it is an applied science as well as simply a theoretical pure science and the application of this scientific method is to arrive at the purification of consciousness. The removal from consciousness of all the superimpositions that have like veils or transparencies, filters, ended up causing us to superimpose upon reality, illusions. If they are severe enough we call them delusions. The modern science of psychology derives from the ancient science of yoga, but it’s spectrum of understanding of the nature of consciousness is much smaller - it understands only a sliver of what we call ego consciousness, whereas the point of yoga is to transcend ego consciousness, because the great scientists of consciousness thousands and thousands of years ago discovered that there were levels of consciousness that far transcend anything available to the finite ego mind—and that that is our real self and our ego mind that we are so sure we are, in a body in a physical world, is actually a false state of consciousness—or at least a partial state in which only partial truths are available to us and therefore we create suffering. So if we want to live a life without suffering it is important to remove all of those filters that constitute the ego and arrive at true consciousness—and that true consciousness, because it is in alignment with that supreme power that has created all consciousness and the universe itself, then flows through our consciousness with inspirations, with wisdom, with love, with a sense of fullness and empowerment and all the things the ego mind is looking for but can never get…” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, January 10, 2013.

The Pearl of Impermanence – 12.06.12

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 10:58:42 -0600

Excerpt: "Impermanence is the rule of the phenomenal plane – everything comes and goes, nothing is permanent. And by accepting that and not resisting and fighting it, we can be at peace, and discover the one aspect of reality that is not impermanent which is the awareness that is aware of the impermanence. And that's what we happen to be. and if we accept that – that we are simply awareness – not awareness that is identified with any impermanent thing, like a physical body, or even a mind, or a personality, or any objective identification at all, we are free of suffering. It's only when we identify with something impermanent that we start to fear that we will lose our being, our existence. But that fear is purely based on an illusion. And all of our desires are simply the compensation for that fear; you wanna hold on to something that will help you maintain the illusion of this existence which isn't real. And the despair at realizing that it is ultimately hopeless to hold on to anything at all. And finally one gives that up and the ignorance on which that is based, the illusion that one is a physical being instead of pure consciousness, then one lets go and enters into the realization of liberation which was always there." Recorded on the evening of Thursday, December 6, 2012.

The Blissful Stillness – 11.29.12

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:54:29 -0600

Excerpt: "Sri Ramana says that the abode of bliss that we are all seeking is stillness. And he says we are all seeking it whether we know it or not. But most of us are seeking it in the wrong places. Not in stillness but in some external person, situation, drug, music phenomenon of some kind – but the abode of bliss can only be found in stillness. And many of the things that we do are done in order to reach a temporary state of stillness. We know that runners often run just to get exhausted and then their minds stop working because they have no energy to keep producing thoughts and they get 'runner’s high.' And other people do many other things – not for the reason that they might consciously think but that it will give them a moment of a glimpse of the abode of bliss. But Ramana says it is our birthright to live in the abode of bliss, always. That's our real home – but most of us have run away from home. And now we have to be the prodigal sons and daughters to find our way back." Recorded on the evening of Thursday, November 29, 2012.

Honoring Shiva – 11.08.12

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:02:54 -0600

Excerpt: "...Because what he taught and what is the truth is that each of us has the capacity to be the manifestation of Shiva, if we renounce our ignorance of that; if we make it Real by dissolving the veil of the ego mind that stands between our consciousness and Shiva; and through the ceaseless practice of inner silence and remeberence of the Supreme Self as 'I.' And then that Almighty Self will flow through and fill our consciousness, and move our bodies and our minds in a divine way, and create an energy field of such power, such love, such joy that the world will be transformed by that. But we must be wholeheartedly dedicated to attaining our real consciousness as the Supreme Self, and not wallow in the ego mind and it's narratives, and not identify with memory traces of the past, and not act out the symptoms and the sufferings of the ego mind and its traumas, and not continue to inflict them on our self and others..." Recorded on the evening of Thursday, November 8, 2012.

Meditating with Love, Will and Knowledge – 11.01.12

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:02:01 -0600

Excerpt: “The process of meditation is that of realizing our Real Self because most of the day we live behind the mask of a false self that defends us against either real or imagined attacks, or deceptions, or difficulties in life, negative projections and rejections, and all of our fears and anxieties projected out into the world. And because we are doing that our energy is dissipated, and we get exhausted, burned out. We lose our selves. And so when we come to meditate we come to re-find ourselves, to pull our energies back inward to our center, to be balanced and to regain the wholeness that we had lost during our time in the false self, until eventually we don’t ever leave the Real Self, because we understand that there is no need to do that. But we are trained early in life to wear this mask and pretend it is our Real Self and we have accepted it for so long that we no longer even realize it’s a mask and we think it is all there is and there is nothing else behind it. So there is a terror of taking it off and not knowing who we are, because our conscious mind has forgotten.” Recorded in the evening of Thursday, November 1, 2012.

A School for Demons and Angels – 10.30.12

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:27:50 -0600

Excerpt: “We come here for freedom – freedom from suffering. And we learn that all suffering is caused by our own ego and that the one job to achieve is to kill the ego. Some people object to that phrase, but it’s essential to recognize that the ego must be killed, and can only be killed because it’s not Real. What is Real cannot be killed. What is Real is eternal and immortal. But the ego – despite its unreality – is imprisoning our consciousness, in a self-sabotaging thought-form that destroys our happiness, destroys our life, destroys our capacity to be. And unless we destroy the ego, it will keep us imprisoned in hell realm life after life after life. And that means we’re not living at all.” Recorded in the afternoon of Tuesday, October 30, 2012.

Allowing the Power of Love to Flow – 10.25.12

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:10:15 -0600

Excerpt: "Sat Yoga is a finishing school - probably the last of the finishing schools. Feminism killed off most of them, but here we have a co-ed finishing school… and yes we are here to finish off the ego but we are doing it not by destruction but by allowing it to attain its perfect form and then the ego blossoms into the soul and if we allow it the soul blossoms into pure spirit. We teach about different assemblage points here. Each assemblage point is really an opening up to love at a higher, broader, deeper level. But the essence of what we are is love at every level - even at the level of the ego, which we say “oh, the ego cannot love”, which is true in terms of divine love, but the ego is love because that’s all that is, is love. At the first assemblage point the problem is the ego’s circle of care and love does not go beyond its own self-image… it loves what is sees in the mirror and it loves others adoring gazes and saying yes etc. and it loves sensual pleasures and that kind of thing – what Freud called the ‘ideal ego’, and it doesn’t love beyond that. At the second assemblage point the thesis of the egos narcissistic love turns into the antithesis of a narcissistic hatred - anger, fury at the family, wanting to get away, but this antithesis is actually necessary… one needs to break away by hating the ones that would tie you into a small image of yourself that you have outgrown in order to find love at a higher level, and so it is inevitable that one passes through this and then at the third assemblage point feels remorse for all that hatred, envy and negativity and at that assemblage point one enters fully into the ethical dimension of life and then love begins to be channeled in a higher way…. An aesthetic dimension, an ethical dimension, and a religious dimension of life all open up at the third assemblage point and love begins to blossom, one becomes a productive citizen because one loves one world etc. etc… one loves beauty, one loves truth, one loves higher truth even then that which is about the physical plane, but still there are limitations. So one's circle of love may extend to one's nation but does it extend to those in other nations or does one still demonize people of other countries of other religions, other skin colors etc. etc.? The love is still not universal, it is not unconditional, and it’s only at the next assemblage point that love becomes universal and all are recognized as children of God…." Recorded in the evening of Thursday, October 25, 2012.

Shuttering the Ego Island – 10.18.12

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:49:44 -0600

Excerpt: “…And within that idea of return there is a crossroads that one encounters. One leads to the bliss of the Absolute and the other leads to nihilism – that leads to an emptiness that is a barrenness. And we have two kinds of spiritual teacher in the world: one who is pointing to the bliss and the light and the power and the joy of God and the other who points to absolute nothingness. And so it’s very important that when you let go of the ego and allow it to dissolve that you recognize there is still an awareness that is witnessing that. So you are still there when your ego has dissolved. You are still there when the mind is completely silent. But when there are no more narratives, who are you that is there? That’s the question. The real inquiry that Ramana recommends of ‘Who am I?’ only begins after the disillusion of the ego when you know you are not that, you are not the traumatized person but you’re the witness. And then you can begin to ask ‘but what is this witness?’ that is still there after everything is dissolved and the mind is quiet and there is actually peace. That’s when you can find the inner blissful Supreme Self.” Recorded in the evening of Thursday, October 18, 2012.

The Quadrivium – 10.15.12

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:48:25 -0600

Excerpt: “The Christians talk about transfiguring the wafer and the wine into the body and the blood of Christ. It’s the theory of transubstantiation. But what it means is that you recognize that Real One, a mere wafer, a mere cup of ordinary wine, is actually simply the symbolic representation of Real Two, the love of God, the act which is the actual body and blood of God. But in our version of transfiguration everything is transformed, all of Real One, and all of the Imaginary of the ego is transformed into Real Two and into the archetypal realization that everything that appears here; including yourself, your own body, your own mind, is simply a symbolic representation of the Real that is God.” Recorded in the afternoon of Monday, October 15, 2012.

Why Hold Back? – 10.11.12

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:11:32 -0600

Excerpt: “We are here to do what the song just said… which is to Swaha - it means give everything to Rama… surrender every illusion that you are separate from God so that you realize who you truly are… surrender every bit of negativity, fear… every piece of anger, hatred, depression, anxiety… throw it all into the fire… throw everything that separates you from your realization of oneness with the supreme being and by doing that and invoking the supreme presence you will be free of suffering and you will be in bliss and you will be filled with power and creativity and clarity and you will be filled with love and you will know that you are loved and you will know that you are one with the source of love and that love is what is beautiful and love is what is good… love is what is real and eternal and you are that and everything that you might have thought that you were that is different from that is an illusion… it is Maya and if you don’t hold onto any Maya and you can let it all go, you will achieve liberation, so why would anyone hold back? Why would anyone keep the illusion of some identification that is less than the beauty and the perfection of God?” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, October 12, 2012.

Seeing the Truth – 10.08.12

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:00:34 -0600

Excerpt: “What is it that we see when the third eye is open? The first thing we see, as all the ancient sages have testified to, is that this world is unreal. Do we all see that? To be unreal doesn’t mean that it doesn’t appear; it is real as an appearance, but it is not real as a world with all of the veils of the ego’s projections upon it. The projections are unreal; they are fantasies. And once those projections are put out there, superimposed upon the phenomenal plane, then that’s what we get back, are our own projections. And so the first thing that the Eye of Shiva must do is burn away the projections so we see the world as it is, as a creation of Shiva. And then we see it not as a world any longer but as a hologram, a multidimensional dream field, in which everything that appears is a symbolic manifestation of the mind of God.” Recorded in the afternoon of Monday, October 8, 2012.

The Solid Abyss of Triumph – 09.20.12

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:38:38 -0600

Excerpt: “You know ‘SAT’ is an acronym. Did anybody know that? Do you know what ‘SAT’ stand for? Anyone know? It means: the Solid Abyss of Triumph. Triumph is the keyword; you will hear the word triumph often is the chants that Anuttara performs. In Sanskrit the word is ‘Jai’ and you hear songs that have the words ‘Jai Sita Ram’ and ‘Govinda Jaya Jaya.’ ‘Jai’ means victory or triumph, but what are we victorious over? It’s the triumph over maya, over the delusion of the ego that creates negativity, self-doubt, despair, depression, anxiety, envy, all the agonies of the ego that we all know so well they don’t need to be listed. So all of these need to be triumphed over, but how do we triumph over them? First we have to become solid…” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, September 20, 2012.

All Experience Occurs Within the Self – 09.13.12

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:24:30 -0600

Excerpt: “All experience occurs within the Self and can be modified by the Self because it is actually all part of the Self, and a creation of the Self. But the Self never appears as an object, and the Self, to all intents and purposes to the scientific mind, does not exist. And this is why many have called Advaita and Buddhism forms of religious atheism. You could say that, but they are not atheism in the same sense as the materialist [who] doesn’t believe in God. The materialist is simply refusing to believe in Sunday school stories. But if the materialist had to actually consider what is the ultimate transcendental condition of experience, then that would be a different matter. So when the atheists attack God, they’re attacking a straw God, a false God. But when you ask ‘Who is doing the attacking?’ ‘Who is the source of the consciousness with that attitude?’ you can take that consciousness back to a level which cannot be understood. But it is fair to say that Advaita and Buddhism are forms of transtheism because no concept of God can ever capture the Self, not even the word Self. And that is why we often will say the Self is no self. And the metaphor is often used that what the Self is, is the space in which consciousness occurs. But even that is only a metaphor because the Self constitutes whatever space it is in which experience occurs but is not Itself that space. And therefore the Self is absolutely transcendent of all conceptualization, and the only way to reach it is by letting go of the attempt to do just that.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, September 13, 2012.

The Matrix Mind – 09.11.12

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:18:00 -0600

Excerpt: “Many people’s egos try to convince them that this knowledge is too difficult to understand, too subtle. And it’s true that the ego cannot understand this knowledge. And yet everyone has a deeper intuition and a recognition of the Truth when they hear it. But the reason why the ego can’t understand it is that it doesn’t want to, because to understand it would mean the death of the very ego that comes to understand its own unreality. But it’s clear that everyone understands because it’s there in our collective culture. This information is hidden in plain sight, like all the other secrets that society holds back from itself.” Recorded in the afternoon of Tuesday, September 11, 2012.

The Formless Relation to Form – 09.10.12

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:03:33 -0600

Excerpt: “When we meditate we are detaching from the ego mind and all of its mundane concerns, and its pointless narratives, and all of its absurd fears and anxieties about life and death that are completely irrelevant to the infinite life of the Real Self. The Real Self alone is. The ego and the forms are merely temporary appearances and they do not have a consciousness of their own. The consciousness of the ego is only borrowed from the Self. It is a dream within a dream. When we subtract our attention and our identification from the form, the ego dissolves like a bubble that pops and we realize it never was. And all of its projections on the world never were. And in the state of the Formless Self we realize that the illusion of the world was only created by the language in the mind that labels everything and creates the deception of a subject-object duality. None of that is real.” Recorded in the afternoon of Monday, September 10, 2012.

The Silence of the Original Self – 09.06.12

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:39:44 -0600

Excerpt: “It is always important to remember why we are here before we begin and sometimes we take it for granted that we know why we are here.... In some cirlces what we are doing is called mysticism, but really there is no mystery to mysticism... or maybe the only mystery is why some people think it is so hard... because all we are doing in the mystical quest is recognizing who we are – recognizing our original true nature... but what makes it seem hard is that we have aquired a conditioned nature – a false nature so that we could adapt to the sickness of society and pretend that that is normal... and then we identified with all of the family signifiers, the cultural signifiers and all of the values of the society in which we live and we lost touch with our original nature... and once we bought into what our parents told us or implied between the lines or what we overheard or suspected or imagined or fantasized, and then what we were taught in school, mostly by fellow students but a little bit by teachers and then what we gain through all the disinformation of the media, has created a false self that is completely clueless about the true nature of what is real... and not only have we forgotten but we are not allowed to know – it is prohibited – there is a censor in the unconsciouss that was put in there like one of those internet filters you put in so kids cant watch the pornographic sites, they put that into each of us so that we couldn't see or know knowledge that was forbidden or unbearbale to the ego... and so that made us into our own worst enemy because your not allowed to see all the skeltons in the family closet and you are not allowed to see even more skeltons in the social closet or in the historic closet of all of human history and you are not allowed to know the true significance of our whole experience in this earth plane because we live in a very small box... but a point comes in our growth when we out grow that box and we need to explode it like a snake outgrows its skin and needs to let it go – shed it to grow another one that fits - but we are afraid because knowbody else is doing it except a few other mad people like in a group like this.... Thursday, September 06, 2012.

The Ultimate High – 09.05.12

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:51:27 -0600

Excerpt: “…Because that’s what Kali Yuga is doing to everyone now. Whatever can break down is breaking down, whether it’s our cars, or our plumbing, or our egos, or our bodies, that’s what’s happening. But don’t wait to have everything taken away from you before you realize that you are that which cannot be damaged or taken away. Be one who dwells in that undamageable, unblemished perfection of being now so that such karmic events won’t be necessary to liberate you, and won’t cause suffering and disturbance. But that no matter what happens you will flow with it in grace, and joy, and love. And you will know that you need nothing, because you are the source of all.” Recorded in the afternoon of Wednesday, September 5, 2012.

Cutting the Knot in Meditation – 09.04.12

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:55:15 -0600

Excerpt: “Meditation is simply an opportunity to drop the illusion that you are a separate ego; to let the identification of mind and body fall away; and more importantly to let go of the identification of Self with mind. The Self is not the mind. You were not born with the mind; you were born with consciousness, awareness. Awareness that in its natural state is free: free of thoughts, free of images, free of desires, free of fear. But once the ego mind is created through the incorporation of language, with the desires, fantasies, fears imposed by the parents, family, society, larger global culture, then a knot is formed that keeps your awareness identified with mind. And the mind feeling [in] a state of lack, a state in which something is missing to make you feel contentment and wholeness and joy. And we mistakenly think we can find what we are looking for by thinking our way to it; and so we think furiously, constantly, chattering about what we want, what we don’t want, rehearsing how we’re going to deal with some future situation, hating some past situation, never in the present, and ever deepening the hole of lack. But there is no lack; the lack is only created by the illusory identification with a separate bodily entity.” Recorded in the afternoon of Tuesday, September 4, 2012.

You are Not the Radio – 08.30.12

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:04:26 -0600

Excerpt: “…It is as if you hear a program on the radio and you like the announcer and you put a picture of the radio up on the wall and say ‘that’s what I like.’ The voice that is coming out of that radio isn’t the radio, it’s coming from a thousand miles away. But you are identified with it as if the words coming out of your mouth belong to that body, they don’t. The problem is this: we don’t just have a radio, we have a machine that has a tape and a radio, and we have it set to the tape machine that just keeps repeating over and over again the loops of the ego and the super ego voices…” Recorded in the afternoon of Thursday, August 30, 2012.

There is Only One Light – 08.30.12

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:05:23 -0600

Excerpt: "There is a very ancient metaphor in yoga that we talk about a lot and we include it in seminar one about the bucket of water that’s put out underneath the full moon and how the bucket represents the body and the water in the bucket represents the mind… and there seems to be a moon in the bucket as well, but is there really? That’s the illusion… the moon we could say represents the Self, but the moon in the bucket is not the Real Self – we could say it is the ego self… and usually the bucket is being disturbed and the water is vibrating and so you don’t even get a clear image of the moon… you get different splinters of the moon-like light but it doesn’t make sense – it is an ever changing puzzle because our minds are going too fast to get an even image that is clear of the Self… but then if we do get that clear image then we are under the illusion that we somehow have to get out of this bucket – I have got to attain liberation, but there is no such thing as liberation because the moon isn’t in the bucket to begin with… the light is projected into the bucket… the moon is always free… the moon is the soul and it doesn’t need to be liberated… so all of this struggling that we do falsely identified as a bucket that is trying to find the inner moon is all based on an illusion – there is no inner moon… and each bucket doesn’t have a different moon in it… and so there aren’t many different selves, there is only one… but then when you finally realize, huh… I was never in there to begin with, I was always the moon, even then you realize the moon only has the reflected light of the sun… even the soul is only carrying the reflected light of the Spirit… the Supreme Being… and in the middle of the night that Supreme Being isn’t even visible… the moon knows it but on earth it is not known… and it is that that we are… that which from the perspective of the ego mind that thinks it’s the bucket can’t even be seen or imagined because it is a completely non-objective reality… it is the consciousness by which you are aware of your being but that consciousness does not exist within the mind… the mind exists within that… and that light is always there day or night… and so rather than struggling to attain liberation or to gradually transcend the ego mind or to work out all of its problems and distortions and try to still the water, just realize that you are not in the bucket to begin with and let it go…." Recorded on the evening of Thursday, August 30, 2012.

Have You Claimed Your Power? – 08.27.12

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:46:17 -0600

Excerpt: “A Sat Yogi is one who knows oneself to be Ajata. Ajata is the unborn, the uncreated, the eternal, the all powerful Self. Do you know yourself to be Ajata? Do you know yourself to be all powerful? Every power is given you, but have you claimed it? You have been given the power of healing; you have been given the power of love; you have been given the power of truth; you have been given the power to conquer maya; the power to remain beyond suffering; the power to remain ever at peace; the power to remain in bliss; the power to be fearless; the power of silence; the power to stay awake in meditation. Have you claimed your powers? Or are you still a beggar before God? Or are you still attached to the false power of weakness, because you prefer to get pity than to claim the power and majesty of the Supreme One? Do you prefer to remain a child rather than to grow up to your full potential as the deathless Self?” Recorded in the afternoon of Monday, August 27, 2012.

Realization of Tat Tuam Asi – 08.23.12

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:06:12 -0600

Excerpt: “Tat Tuam Asi: Thou Art That – very ancient mahavakya, I am That. That which is the ‘I’ of the individual is actually the Supreme Presence. Duality is an illusion. There is one Self, and each of us is That. Can we feel the truth of that mahavakya? Do we resonate with it? Do we surrender to that truth? Do we realize the bliss that comes with that realization? There is really nothing more to know or to study. Because in that state, when the individualized has returned to That, to the Supreme One, to the realization that you were always That, and eternally shall be, then the journey of karma on this wheel of reincarnation, of multiplicity, is complete. Tat Tuam Asi is the sound of our graduation ceremony, the angels will be singing that as we arise to the Supreme Light. And in that realization, all suffering falls away, all fear, all the narcissistic wounds carried by the ego, can finally be enjoyed from God’s strange sense of humor. And that Divine Supreme Perspective heals all in this world, in all worlds. And there is no one left to need to do anything, because all that happens occurs within the dream of God, in absolute perfection.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, August 23, 2012.

Who is the Ultimate Knower? – 08.23.12

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:57:04 -0600

“We come here to discover what is real. And the deeper we inquire within, the more we realize that everything is impermanent in this world of experience; it’s fleeting, it changes – it has no true identity. Even people we meet have no true identity: at one moment they’re friendly, another moment they’re angry, one moment they’re here, another they’re gone, different personalities appear and disappear, moods, attitudes, understandings, none of it is permanent; it’s just a fleeting appearance. So all of you, all of us as appearances, as egos, as bodily beings, are completely unreal. And yet our lives revolve around this non-existent concern with an unreal being, an unreal being in an unreal world. Because the world is in constant change, nothing in this world is dependable: not the climate, not the ground under our feet, not the air, not the solar vibrations where you see the sun, not the water supply. There is no guarantee that our existence will continue even for one more minute, or even that this planet will continue to exist, none. So what is real? What do you build your life on? What do you depend on? Who are you?” Recorded in the afternoon of Thursday, August 23, 2012.

The Fulfillment of One’s Life – 08.16.12

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:56:08 -0600

Excerpt: “There is really no point speaking about the Absolute… we can talk a lot about the ego and the unconscious and it’s structure and dynamics, but when it comes to the Absolute concepts are futile… one always ends up with paradox, inconsistency, contradiction, inadequacy and usually it leads to a distorted understanding on the part of those who are listening… and so many of the great teachers have simply sat in silence without saying anything, or they have taught in parables using metaphors and archetypal images… but nothing can be said about the absolute because the absolute is not a thing – not an object… but even to say that is incorrect… in the Vedas it is called Nirguna Brahman… the Absolute that is beyond even the question of whether personal or impersonal and has no qualities, no gunas, no attributes… but the egoic mind cannot grasp that which has no attributes… and in fact the Absolute cannot be grasped because there is no one to grasp it… what really has to be realized is that the ego mind that is attempting to understand is itself the illusion that must be transcended… for we are the Absolute and have never been anything else… but to explain that to a mind that is identified with its body, with its gender, with its family, its nation and religion and language etc etc etc is almost impossible… and so the approach of most spiritual paths have been to gradually strip away these identifications until consciousness receives a glimpse of naked awareness in which concepts do not arise… no narrative drags one away from the source of one's being into some imaginary discourse about what is… and in that moment of naked presence then the entire mystery of that which is revealed becomes impeccably and infinitely clear but what also becomes clear is that it cannot be transmitted in language to anyone else. This is why the Buddha almost gave up before he began his teaching… you know he sat there – he attained Buddhahood – and then as he got up he realized this cannot be taught and then he sat looking at where he was sitting becoming enlightened for about seven days trying to figure out, “What do I do with this”? It’s impossible to communicate that which transcends this entire dimension of illusion and yet it is what we are now….” Recorded in the evening of Thursday, August 16, 2012.

The Importance of Meditation – 08.14.12

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:49:51 -0600

Excerpt: “The ego is a psychic sack filled with mind parasites. It has only a negative value. It’s a place in consciousness based on the falseness of an illusionary identity that gives a space for negative entities to hold on to and suck your life energy away. These mind parasites will destroy your life if they are not eliminated. The only way to eliminate these negative entities, that will drive you to insanity, destroy your health, and destroy your destiny, is through the surrender of the mind to God for the purification of the consciousness and the elimination of the ego. That is why this sacred act of meditation is so important. It is literally a matter of life or death, and not just this life but all of your future lives that depend on the sanskaras that are created now at the end of Kali Yuga. So we need to take meditation with the utmost seriousness. It is our one opportunity to link with God and feel the current of divine energy, and allow that current to come in with such power that it annihilates these negative thought-forms and purifies the mind and the heart forever.” Recorded in the afternoon of Tuesday, August 14, 2012.

Compassion: Only After Dispassion – 08.09.12

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:00:09 -0600

Excerpt: “Our natural state is pure awareness and absolute purity of mind and heart, and thus a state of love-filled joy. But we are only in that state if we are in the Real Self. And the problem for human consciousness is that a false self has intervened to disconnect our consciousness from the Real Self. And so we must learn to recognize the Real Self. And it’s easy to do because the Real Self differs from the false self in one essential way; the Real Self is non-arising. Any self that arises as an object, as a sense of being a body in the world, as having emotions, intentions, agendas, and relations in duality with others, is the false self. The Real Self is non-arising, and from the perspective from the false self, then, the Real Self does not exist because it doesn’t arise, it’s unborn, it’s unmanifest. But what the Real Self knows is that it’s that which arises that does not really exist; it’s not real because it’s fleeting, it’s impermanent, it’s in constant change, and it’s constantly fragmented, different emotions, different attitudes, different thoughts, contradictory, conflicting, feeling, and cognition states; whereas the Real Self that’s non-arising is eternal, unchanging, immutable – untouched by the chaos of the false self.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, August 9, 2012.

Charging Our Life Battery – 07.26.12

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:21:16 -0600

Excerpt: “The two most important concepts in meditation are ‘Shiva’ and ‘Shakti.’ We need to understand the very deep inner significance of these two profound concepts that function as the energy source for our reality because when we are meditating, what we are doing is literally charging our battery. The soul is a battery; it’s a living battery. And that battery gets discharged over time. And the more that we function in the lower chakras, the faster the battery discharges and goes dead. And so every time we have an outburst of anger, or sexual lust, or insecurity, anxiety, paranoia, all of those lower chakra emotional fixations, the battery of our life energy goes dead. And if it can’t be recharged we will literally go dead. And our physical body then starts to have to compensate for the lack of spiritual energy and the organs become weaker, they become drained. And eventually we just have a meltdown, we can’t think, we can’t organize our self to act and function in the world, our emotions become out of order, they get bipolar, they get fragmented, they fall into a meltdown. This is now happening around the world because nearly everyone’s battery has gone dead.” Recorded in the afternoon of Thursday, July 26, 2012.

The Seeker is the Obstacle – 07.19.12

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:14:24 -0600

Excerpt: ”How many of you believe that you really exist? Is anyone here still under that illusion? Admit it if there is. Anyone? No one will admit it, that’s good, it’s a start. It’s better to not admit it. Because we don’t really [exist]; it’s an illusion. Anything time-bound is not real. And all existence is simply an appearance followed by disappearance. Is the appearance any more real than the disappearance? No, but neither is real. You know a lot of times we talk about Jivanmukti as the goal of yoga, which means to be liberated in life; liberated from the ego with its illusory existence that is only an illusion. But actually Ramana says no, Jivanmukti is not the end; there is a stage higher than Jivanmukti. Does anyone know what it is? Sri Ramana calls it Videhamukti. And this means liberation even from believing you ever were an ego that has achieved liberation. There is not even the subtle sense of being one who has gone beyond the illusion – because you were never in the illusion to begin with. That’s why the final stage is just laughter.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, July 19, 2012.

Discovering Who We Are – 07.18.12

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:15:38 -0600

Excerpt: “…Those of us who have been here for some time have no doubt come to understand and been motivated by the fact that what we are doing is discovering who we are. Most of us have recognized that we have these experiences that are in a flux, almost like in a circle; our body and our minds are going through these changes, constant changes. And yet there’s a witness, there’s a center to all of these experiences, and what we call ‘imperiences,’ those which don’t happen in what seems to be an external world but happen in an internal world: dreams, visions, memories, thoughts; where do they actually happen? And to whom do they happen? And we usually focus our whole life on what is happening out there: ‘what a pretty flower,’ ‘what a strange person,’ ‘what extraordinary power of thunder and lightning and rain,’ and all these other things. And we have judgments about our experiences, and sometimes we have judgments about our own thoughts. But how often do we ask: ‘Who is it who is having the judgment?’ ‘To whom does this thought occur?’ ‘Who is witnessing even the judgment about the judgment?’ ‘Who is the ultimate perceiver?’…” Recorded in the afternoon of Wednesday, July 18, 2012.

Victory Over Death – 07.12.12

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:07:54 -0600

Excerpt: “Meditation is the act of gaining victory over death. And that makes it literally a life or death matter. Do we take it with that seriousness? One of the great names for a successful yogi is ‘Mrityunjay’ which means one who has achieved victory over death. There are two words for death in Sanskrit that refer to the two dimensions of death. One is ‘kal’ and kal also means time, and measure. Thus we have the word calendar (kalendar) in English, or calculate, or caliber, or Excalibur, the sword of immeasurable value, the legitimate wielder of which is given immortality. One of the great names for God is ‘Mahakal’, the great death, which is the death of death. It means entering into the dimension of eternity. But how you achieve that is revealed in the second word for death…” Recorded in the afternoon of Thursday, July 12, 2012.

Erotic Union With the Supreme One – 07.12.12

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:55:44 -0600

Excerpt: “I hope that you have all come prepared for intense erotic experiences… have you? Those of you who were here for the film this week of the sculpture of Santa Teresa by Bernini will remember that here is a question that is open as to whether she is having a chakra four mystical experience or a chakra two orgasmic experience… and the art critics and philosophers and psychoanalysts are actually arguing over this point…. To the psychoanalyst like Lacan naturally it has to be a chakra two experience – there is no chakra four – that is the modern ideology… and this loss of the transcendent dimension has bought about the loss of the realization that our true relationship to God is an erotic one, but it is the Eros of the soul not of the ego…. The soul’s deepest desire is to be ravished by God – this is what we mean by surrender… you are literally abandoning your ego self and asking to be filled by Gods power – presence – love – bliss. This is the true erotic experience not the other one at chakra two… that is very minor and disappointing… this one is eternal – liberating – it brings salvation, but it is very much an ecstasy. It is the ecstasy in which you are transported beyond… the experience begins in chakra four but then literally you are carried upward through the three worlds…" Recorded on the evening of Thursday, July 12, 2012.

Attainment of Tamasic Immunity – 07.09.12

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:18:56 -0600

Excerpt: “As the world situation every day becomes more tamasic, we have to remain immune to the negative vibrations that are all around us that want to affect us and that want to drag us down back into ego consciousness. Because to whatever extent there is still ego within any of us, that ego is becoming more and more rancid every day – that’s really what tamasic means. It’s putrid, it’s decomposing. We’re in the final period of Kali Yuga, when not only the ego but the physical organism itself is losing its capacity to live, to remain healthy, to remain strong, to remain with an immune system that is functioning properly, because the very elements of matter have been defiled. And so it’s very important that Sat Yogis keep a sattvic energy field. Not only for the immunity of our own organism, but for the immunity of the sangha, as a super-organism, or we can be very easily be infected by the tamasic energy and then suddenly our field of love becomes one of conflict, and aggression, or lust, or fear, or simply chaos and confusion, or all at once. And the only way to maintain the coherence of your own energy field and that of the sangha is to remain in inner silence – with your consciousness united with the Source.” Recorded in the afternoon of Monday, July 9, 2012.

The Yogi’s Way of Robotomy – 07.05.12

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:11:03 -0600

Excerpt: “A yogi is someone who is so sick of his ego that he wants to commit suicide. But he knows that if he does that he will have to face all the karma that he ran away from, in the next life. So it does no good. And so instead of killing the body in suicide he realizes he must commit egocide. Suicide, ‘sui’ comes from the Sanskrit ‘swa’, the real Self; the ego is the false self, the me. In fact the ‘me’ actually stands for ‘M-E,’ Machinic Entity because the ego is a machine, it’s a robot, with an operating system that was created in childhood and robotically repeats the same patterns over and over again – in just a slightly more sophisticated form. And so we have to get rid of this robot somehow. We have to give ourselves a robotomy – which is similar to a lobotomy but slightly different. In the lobotomy you get rid of the higher functioning aspects of the robot, then you are left with the lower ones. Here we want to get rid of the robot entirely so that we can be liberated in life. But to get rid of the ‘me’ requires being willing to cut our link with thoughts – to be in stillness. And the thoughts continue to emerge robotically. But what keeps the robot going, what keeps it fueled is our addiction to those thoughts. The robotic thoughts produce jouissance; they produce a kind of pleasure, an enjoyment, even though that enjoyment is painful. Every ego is sadomasochistic and it produces a kind of enjoyment in the same way that the dog enjoys the taste of its own bleeding gums when it’s chewing on a bone.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, July 5, 2012.

Find Adulthood in Soul Consciousness – 07.04.12

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:08:18 -0600

Excerpt: ”Each of us comes equipped with three levels of consciousness. Unfortunately there is no instruction manual as to how to operate these three. And the society today tells us only about the ego – the primary level – that is required in order to function in this society. But if one lives only from the ego, one is living a very petty, weak, fragile life, focused on very superficial aims; the greed for money or sexual pleasure or some kind of limited power or some kind of fantasy fulfillment that always ends up disappointing one and the ego always ends up depressed and anxious and lost. And the ego consciousness is not good for very much, and it is not intended to do very much, except to get you to adulthood…” Recorded in the afternoon of Wednesday, July 4, 2012.

The Need for Spiritual Power – 07.02.12

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:10:11 -0600

Excerpt: “The purpose of meditation is to become empowered. You should feel more spiritual power at the end of each meditation than you started with. How many of you feel that? Good. We need a lot of spiritual power to deal with the energy field of the world as it is today. And every day the world becomes more tamasic. And there is a very short time before major world-shattering events will occur. That if we are not strong enough to face them, and have the adequate and accurate response, can be very devastating to our equilibrium. And Sat Yogis are here not just to stay in balance for ourselves but be able to offer peace and balance and strength to others, we have to be able to channel that strength. But to do that, we first have to purify our own unconscious minds. If we are still being overturned by maya, by fantasies, by impulses of the lower chakras and by negative thoughts, negative interactions with others, then we are not able to be of any service to the world. We must complete our self-service, we must complete our own dissolution of the ego to be able to offer as a conduit as a channel the divine energies. So we must get out of the ego mind and we must enter the divine mind. If you’re in the ego mind, you are not of any help to anyone, least of all yourself.” Recorded in the afternoon of Monday, July 2, 2012.

God Has No Body – 06.28.12

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:23:37 -0600

Excerpt: “In order to be able to have some sense of God’s presence, first of all we have to recognize that what we mean by God, as a starting point, is the highest potential consciousness that you can have. Not the highest possible, the highest potential, because as soon as you say possible then that’s divided into what is possible and what is impossible. But you don’t know what is impossible; you don’t know the limits of potentiality. So we have to assume an infinite potentiality, and that you have that infinite potentiality of altering your state of consciousness to reach that of God consciousness.” Recorded in the afternoon of Thursday, June 28, 2012.

Illusory Growth – 06.28.12

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:58:32 -0600

Student Question: Is it the ego that creates the illusion of growth and/or non-growth?

Tackle Unwanted Sleep – 06.28.12

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:00:15 -0600

Student Question: To avoid falling asleep in meditation, I’ve read about a recommendation to do walking meditation instead. What advice do you have?

The Meaning of an Identical Twin – 06.28.12

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:58:31 -0600

Student Question: What does it mean spiritually to have an identical twin?

Sibling Superego – 06.28.12

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:54:08 -0600

Student Question: If one has superego projections with one’s siblings, can those projections be primary, or will they always secondary to those of the parents?

Holding My Breath to Feel God – 06.28.12

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:49:27 -0600

Student Question: Sometimes when I meditate I feel a kind or rush that feels like adrenaline. It feels very good and I want to go deeper into it. The problem is that it feels like I am holding my breath, and I am making this huge effort in order to go deeper. It only lasts for some time and then I feel exhausted. What should I do when this happens? Just let go?

Driving the Lower Chakras – 06.28.12

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:44:15 -0600

Student Question: How do you handle drives in the lower chakras?

A Sleepy Body Part – 06.28.12

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:38:15 -0600

Student Question: Recently in a meditation my foot fell asleep and all these narratives of fear came up regarding whether or not I was hurting my foot or myself. Many of these ideas came up and once I detached from it the feeling in the foot came back. I was wondering what the symbolism of this is?

Ego Trick: Sleep – 06.28.12

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:12:14 -0600

Student Question: I find myself falling asleep during meditation, why is that? How can I observe the ego falling asleep?

Trapped in the Lower Chakras – 06.28.12

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:05:00 -0600

Student Question: When one is trapped in the lower chakras, how does one recognize that one is trapped and how does one get out of them?

From Particle to Wave – 06.28.12

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:46:26 -0600

Student Question: Sometimes when I meditate I start to feel a very blissful state, but after some time the opposite happens and it becomes almost unbearable and even painful. When this happens I usually stop but today I continued and as I did I thought of the word dematerialization. So I was wondering if that state is associated to “moving from the particle to the wave” that you were referring to and if it is at all related to transmutation as well, is there a connection? What is it that happens?

Healthy Fearlessness – 06.28.12

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:45:56 -0600

Student Question: What is healthy fearlessness?

What is an Angel? – 06.28.12

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:21:33 -0600

Student Question: What is an angel?

Trapped in the Lower Chakras – 12.06.28

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:03:41 -0600

Student Question: When one is trapped in the lower chakras, how does one recognize that one is trapped and how does one get out of them?

Contemplation Precipitates Presence – 12.06.28

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:52:48 -0600

Excerpt: “I was reading ‘The Little Russian Philokalia’ today… and this first volume is the teaching of Saint Seraphim of Sarov - a great Saint of Russia… and one of his core teachings is that the true aim of Christianity or of a “true Christian life” as he puts, is the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God… I think that sums up authentic Christianity very well… and I think those who are true spiritual seekers in any path can agree that this is the aim, however different religions would alter the language very slightly and that slight alteration can have huge effects…. Now Saint Seraphim does go onto say the Holy Spirit of God is already within you – it is not somewhere else – you don’t have to buy it somewhere – you don’t have to acquire it in some external way… and so really they (religions) all will agree that it is simply a question of realizing your true nature and letting go of the false self… and in the Christian path Saint Seraphim and other Christian Saints and Mystics would say that you do that through contemplative prayer – you contemplate in your consciousness which is silenced, the presence of God – the meaning of God – the beauty of God – the power of God… and simply by doing that you enable the presence of God to emerge into your consciousness… the contemplation of God precipitates the presence of God.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, June 28, 2012.

Divine Pillars of the New World – 06.27.12

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:44:12 -0600

Excerpt: “We have to perform our function well, with humility and purity; with absolute emptiness of ego – to live in the largest way, to live for God and as a manifestation of Godly power. Power of love and truth, not of ego; not of the desire to dominate or control – to surrender all of that and be in the purity and the flow of the divine nature.” Recorded in the afternoon of Wednesday, June 27, 2012.

The Gift of Life – 06.14.12

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:30:46 -0600

Excerpt: ”What we are all here to discover for ourselves – not through hearsay, not through the testimony even of great sages – is what is real. ‘Who am I really?’ ‘What am I?’ ‘What is this world?’ ‘Is there a God?’ ‘Is there a purpose?’ ‘Is there a meaning?’ ‘What do I want to achieve during this short time that I have between birth and death?’ These are questions that each of us must answer in our own hearts. And while it is useful to hear the wisdom of those who have gone very deeply into reality for themselves, and whose words may be inspiring for you, we must go beyond even the great mahavakyas of the great sages and enter into our own innermost heart.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, June 14, 2012.

Liberation Through Gyana or Bhakti – 06.07.12

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:52:39 -0600

Excerpt: “The obstacle is the ego. With all of its chaotic thoughts, negative thoughts, thoughts of lack, of anxiety, of anger, of lust, fear. The ego is a luxury we can no longer afford. It makes our lives unmanageable, as the twelve-step people would say. You can’t manage your life if your life is ruled by an ego because an ego is inherently chaotic, ambivalent . . . and filled with internal conflicts that get projected as external conflicts, paralysis of will, and self-deception of every sort. And all of this produces: suffering. Suffering is based on illusion because the ego is an illusion, and all of its thoughts are illusory. Once you realize you cannot trust those thoughts, you will accept only the thoughts that come from the Source, and they come as inspirations, intuitions, Aha-experiences, and wordless knowing of the true nature of reality – that leads to spontaneous egoless action.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, June 7, 2012.

Whatever Beliefs You Have Alienate You from Who You Are – 05.31.12

Thu, 31 May 2012 17:25:37 -0600

Excerpt: “What the path of Advaita says, that is different from every other path, is: all you really need to do is ask the question ‘What am I?’ And just by asking the question, not even getting an answer – in fact you don’t want an answer – as soon as you get an answer you get another belief system, another mythology, another symbolic situation that needs to be overcome because every symbolic situation you are in is the obstacle to the realization of what you are. So you don’t want an answer to the question: what you need is a wordless realization of your being, which you can only get by inquiring – not conceptually, not to find some new map or some new symbol – but to free yourself from all the symbolic constructs that have then created the need for some journey or salvation or some grace from a God, whether out there or in here; it doesn’t even matter. So the question is meant to get you out of every belief system and to keep you from creating a new one because what you need to be free of is beliefs…” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, May 31, 2012.

All Suffering is Caused by Identification – 05.24.12

Thu, 24 May 2012 15:47:01 -0600

Excerpt: “All suffering is caused by identification with an object in consciousness: primarily identification with the physical body, and secondly, identification with language, thoughts. And those thoughts are charged with emotions, impulses, drives—images that create nostalgia, anger, fear, whatever. So there’s a whole cluster of objects, mental objects, that tend to arise that produce effects of suffering of different kinds. And to the extent we’re identified with those objects in the mind, we are on the wheel of karma. . . . And because of our identification with the body, and with thought, we cannot escape because every effort to escape just tightens the noose more: we affirm the illusion that is the cause of suffering. . . . But there is a very simple way out, and that is nonidentification with any mental objects and instead realization of the Self as the Empty Consciousness in which those objects arise.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, May 24, 2012.

How to Love Your Offspring – 05.17.12

Thu, 17 May 2012 18:44:48 -0600

Student Question: How can I love my daughter without attachment?

What is the Sat Mind? – 05.17.12

Thu, 17 May 2012 17:46:52 -0600

Student Question: Last week you spoke about the difference between the ego mind and the Sat mind, and I didn’t really understand what the Sat mind is.

Falling from High to Low – 05.17.12

Thu, 17 May 2012 17:23:36 -0600

Student Question: When one is in a meditative state, in a state of awareness, and then starts to lose that awareness by getting pulled down by the lower death drive and the lower chakras. What suggestions do you have to help prevent one from falling again and again?

Attached to Lack – 05.17.12

Thu, 17 May 2012 15:55:31 -0600

Student Question: There is an attachment to lack, which we don’t want to lose it seems because unconsciously it defines who we are as an ego. So the question is, how does one “attack” that attachment to lack?

More Choice, More Anxiety – 05.17.12

Thu, 17 May 2012 15:09:36 -0600

Student Comment: Last week I talked about the excitement of different activities, and there are many of them that I feel so excited for. But then it creates this sense that there’s not enough time: I can’t do everything and I don’t know how to prioritize. Then I get this overwhelming sense because I want to do them all and the anxiety is coming up from that.

A Healthy Superego? – 05.17.12

Thu, 17 May 2012 15:02:19 -0600

Student Question: We have talked about a healthy super ego. For example, recognizing where one has been inaccurate, even if it’s subtle, and not wanting to repeat that behavior again. I can see how that recognition could escalate into more of a negative attack but, how do you discern the difference?

The Illusion of Fear – 05.17.12

Thu, 17 May 2012 13:22:54 -0600

Student Question: What is the relationship between karma, transformation and the supreme will of God?

Am I Ready to Meet Rama? – 05.17.12

Thu, 17 May 2012 13:03:23 -0600

Excerpt: “There is an inherent and eternal love between the soul and God. Sita is the signifier of the soul and Rama of God - and Sita and Rama are always together - and when Sita does become separated from Rama, through Sita’s ignorance and stupidity – karmic enmeshment with the phenomenal plane – Rama always comes to rescue her – and Rama is always victorious – and Rama is always able to build an army of monkeys to be able to help him. Monkeys are just a signifier for yogis – because yogis are those who are coming out of the monkey stage into the divine stage through their love for Rama – our love for Rama…. And so all meditation is, is the act of love between Sita (that’s you), and Rama (that’s also you)… and that’s what love really means - that you meet yourself - that love is union with the source of your being… the soul is that part of yourself that wonders into this dream field called the universe to have experiences and challenges, delights… all created by Rama for the benefit of Sita, but then we get lost in those delights and the paradise becomes a hell realm and voila… its time to meditate again… get Rama to rescue us – beam us up again – start the whole thing all over again…. So we are at that moment where Sita once more meets Rama… and so you have to ask yourself the question – am I ready to meet Rama?” Recorded on the evening of, Thursday, May 17, 2012.

The Superego! – 05.17.12

Thu, 17 May 2012 11:52:30 -0600

Student Question: What is the superego? If you dissolve the ego, will the superego still be there?

Transcending All Myths – 04.27.12

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:36:53 -0600

Excerpt: “Philosophy in the modern West . . . distinguished religion from science. Religion was mythical, and science dealt with facts. . . . Postmodern Western philosophy now conceives that science itself is a myth. . . . When it comes to ultimate questions, science has no answer to them; it has to presume an origin, but it doesn’t even attempt to account for it because it cannot account for anything ultimate because that would be religion. But if, in fact, there’s no difference between religion and science, and if they are both mythological constructs, then it’s important to understand what myth is. And as Joseph Campbell has explained very clearly in all of his works, myth is metaphor. But what is it that’s being metaphorized?” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, April 26, 2012.

The One True Person of No Rank – 04.19.12

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:40:02 -0600

Excerpt: “We are here to realize the true self. The implication of that is that we have not been living in our authentic self, but in some false - unreal - persona… and if we are not living in our real self then we are not living in the real world either… and if the world is false and the self is false, then things are going to happen that are unsustainable because the false cannot survive the test of truth… and because so many on this planet are now living in the false self, we have a false world that is collapsing… you cannot live in that state of hypocrisy without karma hitting you pretty hard…. So everyone is getting lessons in karma nowadays but we are not here to worry about the political issues of the world and their karma… we are here to work out our own karma… to make sure that we are not secretly killing elephants when we are pledged to protect them… to make sure that if we are Sat Yogis, we are living up to our vows and living a yogic life and living as what Linji - the great Zen master - the great wild Zen master - called the true person – the one true person of no rank. He said every ego is out to try and get to as high a rank as possible and to try to improve its status in the world and that is all it is really interested in, and there is one true person who doesn’t care about that… who realizes that there is no such thing as rank…. It is interesting that rank has these two meanings. One is a bad smell, and the other is status…. It is rank if you are interested in rank… but he said there is only one true person of no rank and that everyone else is interested in rank and prestige, status, possessions and power - all of that… but that the one true person is the incarnation of God… the Christ…. Don’t think the Zen masters don’t believe in Christ. They do, but they have another word for that being...” Recorded on the evening of, Thursday, April 19, 2012.

What is Déjà vu? - 04.12.12

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:02:25 -0600

Student Question: What is déjà vu?

Obstacles to Reaching Higher Consciousness – 04.12.12

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:20:27 -0600

Student Question: How can I know if my meditation practice has stagnated?

Growth Has No End – 04.12.12

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:36:15 -0600

Student Question: How can we guide children from a very early age to find their awareness?

A Sacred Vehicle – 04.12.12

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:23:40 -0600

Student Question: Is the body a reflection of the mind?

Climbing the Ladder of Consciousness – 04.12.12

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:35:16 -0600

Student Question: Something that I have been thinking about recently is this idea of “the third.” I know you mentioned before when we were talking about the “I of the Statement” and the “I of the Enunciation” that there is also the “Third I”; the “I of Awareness” or the “I of Shiva.” We have also studied a module in which the father comes in as the third to break the mother and child dyad, and I am sure there are many other examples, but I was just curious about the significance of this idea of the third and what it really means.

Direct God Realization – 04.12.12

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:02:45 -0600

Excerpt: "Most religions are the worship of a yogi - they are constituted by that…. Christ was a yogi – Buddha was a great yogi – Mohammed was a yogi – Moses was a yogi… and so most of the religions today are either worshiping the yogi or worshiping the book that the yogi wrote, or was channeled through him… but religion was originally simply the act of becoming a yogi… so the religions that we have today are indirect and there is certainly benefit in worshiping a great yogi, but that is very different from attaining the state of consciousness that Christ attained or that Buddha attained…. And so merely worshiping and trying to imitate the life of a great yogi, while an important step, keeps one within the ego… it doesn't transcend the ego into direct God realization, and that is what we are here to do… to become the goal that those great yogis pointed at for us…. Christ would have considered Christianity to be heretical – he never said worship me – be one with the Father – I and the Father are one - you and the Father are one – we are all one - but then that gets misinterpreted…. Or in the Islamic religion, there is one prophet only and one holy book and then it stops, as if God got some inability to write after that – writer's block or something – couldn't produce any more testaments – not true…. But humans have gotten yoga block… humans have blocked their own access to the transcendent dimension of our own self, and that is what we are here to unblock… and we do that simply by silencing the egoic chatter that acts as a buffer and an obstruction between our consciousness and that of God's….. And that is the original and authentic purpose of prayer… to create a mental pathway and a link between the individual consciousness and the universal consciousness…" Recorded on the evening of Thursday, April 12, 2012.

Emptiness of Ego is the Fullness of God - 04.12.12

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:57:48 -0600

Student Question: If Jesus and Buddha were both great yogis then why did they both reach different conclusions about God? Jesus spoke about his Father yet Buddhism denies God.

The Mindstream – 04.12.12

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:44:11 -0600

Student Question: Do Vāsanās and Sanskaras have the same meaning?

Release and Be Free - 04.12.12

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:00:19 -0600

Student Question: Do we just have to sit in silence long enough to dissolve the discomfort that arises, or do we need to analyze it?

Sit in the Sadness – 04.12.12

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:43:27 -0600

Student Question: Why is it that when I have a deep or a good meditation I sometimes want to cry? Aren’t I supposed to be experiencing bliss?

Two Main Tricks – 04.12.12

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:08:22 -0600

Student Question: In meditation when I finally reach some silence it is common that I will then be immediately disrupted or thrown out of it and I don’t really understand why that happens? I even experience the sensation of losing balance. Do you know why that is?

Feel the Pain – 03.29.12

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:56:01 -0600

Student Question: In your talk tonight you spoke about going through this mirror of unbearable knowledge, but do you go through it or do you witness it?

The Essence of Spiritual Practice – 03.29.12

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:41:02 -0600

Student Question: How do we learn when on an everyday basis we are in this whirlpool of being aware and wanting to transcend the ego but then at other times being really chaotic. Sometimes that chaos manifests itself physically and then the next day you can be peaceful again so how do we learn to stay in the silence?

Don’t Blame God – 03.29.12

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:17:10 -0600

Student Question: Is it possible that Gods Lila is really creating all the suffering in the world?

God’s Perfect Plan - 03.29.12

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:53:17 -0600

When you talk about missing your window of opportunity and synchronicity I don’t really understand how that fits in with gods perfect plan. How is it that you are able to miss a window of opportunity if at the end it is only one step in the path of the perfect plan?

Egoic Eruptions – 03.29.12

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:47:37 -0600

Student Comment: At the beginning of your talk you said something to the affect that in reality we don’t control anything and in what I would call the ‘business world’, people get so stuck in their power struggles and beliefs and certainties. They believe that they are going to make something happen in a certain way but often they actually make the situation much worse. It seems common for negotiations to be full of tensions and bad feelings and lower emotions when in reality what’s really going on or how the situation can be resolved has nothing to do with the emotional and egoic eruptions that people in business most of the time knock against each other.

Dharmaraj – 03.29.12

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:34:02 -0600

Student Question: What is dharmaraj in a more formal sense?

The Devotion Circuit – 03.29.12

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:13:10 -0600

Student Question: I felt your teaching tonight was very appropriate. I have been thinking a lot this week about a question which I have always had with Christianity. Even though I know it is a very devotional religion, I have never had that kind of experience with it. Ironically, it was this week sometime that I was listening to one of those gospel songs and all of a sudden I just broke out in tears. The closest thing that I could put it to was this feeling of being saved by Christ or God, but it was this very strong feeling of sin having been taken away by another. I know I have heard you speak in the past about how certain religions have niches or specializations or accentuations in certain areas more then others and I have just wanted to know where this fits in and what its value is? I think you kind of spoke to that tonight in how it can be used as a stepping stone and not as a hindrance.

The Path of the Valiant and The Path of the Fearful – 03.29.12

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:36:32 -0600

Excerpt: “If you read the old Vedanta literature . . . they tend to divide the path into two forms: one they call ‘The Path of the Valiant’ and the other ‘The Path of the Fearful.’ And they say that those who are in fear come to God looking for refuge. . . . And they say ‘The Path of the Valiant,’ on the other hand, is not taking refuge in some god or supernatural force or supreme power or as an other, but one who has the courage to recognize that God is the Self. . . . But I tend to think that in these postmodern times that’s too simplistic a dichotomy, and that, in a way, it takes more courage to admit that one need’s help than it does to believe that one can do it all on one’s own. And it is that pseudo-valiance that may actually hold one back for a long time on the path, believing one can do it on one’s own, but being in denial of the fact that one is using a lot of props in order to hold one up. . . . But in truth, the sadhana is always a combination of the two. And when we are in our daily lives, there should be a recognition of the interdependence—and of the humility required—to continue to learn, at deeper and deeper levels of subtlety, what the great sages have taught as to how to reach this place where the valiant achievement of God-consciousness is authentic and truly possible.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, March 29, 2012.

Dream Interpretation – 03.22.12

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:17:46 -0600

Student Question: Sometimes I have archetypal dreams where a person will tell me about something I have to do and even though when I wake up I can remember what it is, I have no idea how to do it. I feel like this happens to me a lot. During the day I worry because I am not sure how I can do what was told to me in the dreams. Because of this I get stressed and feel guilty about not doing what my unconscious is telling me to do and it feels like I am ignoring it and that somehow it is going to affect me in some way. I am not sure if this is correct because they never tell me in the dream but it is frustrating me to think that it is going to affect my karma.

Supreme Holy Work – 03.22.12

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:33:01 -0600

Excerpt: “So if God made you an offer, that all you would have to do to help save the world, would be to silence your mind and immerse yourself in the divine presence within consistently, completely, once and for all, and that that would be the greatest gift you give to the universe and to yourself, would you do it? Because that is the offer that God has been making for thousands of years… it is what every spiritual tradition teaches…. Surrendering to God means surrendering the attention, the thoughts, the mind, to the presence that is already within you, at the core of your own consciousness, which is a very sweet blissful silence… and that energy that can radiate through the channel of your own mind’s focus will fill the world with peace and divine love and that energy is so powerful, that if the flow of it is continuous, it will change the course of history; it is that strong. We just need a critical mass of beings who are dedicated to that supreme holy work, and a Sat Yuga is born… a kingdom of heaven is born on earth… and yet no one seems to volunteer to do the work and it’s so simple because really it means stop working, stop struggling, stop striving, stop desiring, stop fearing, and just live in peace and acceptance in freedom from suffering and in empowerment and in love….” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, March 01, 2012.

Archetypal Knowledge – 03.15.12

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:37:14 -0600

Student Question: How is one able to realize when he/she is having access to archetypal knowledge?

The Tip of the Iceberg - 03.15.12

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:24:55 -0600

Student Question: What is the relationship between Master’s Discourse and the Death Drive?

Beyond Ego Consciousness – 03.15.12

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:40:33 -0600

Student Question: Where are the archetypes while the ego is operating? Are they within consciousness?

Ghosts - 03.15.12

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:13:44 -0600

Student Question: What happens with all those people who become ghosts? They are beings that are among us but no longer in a body although they still resemble the body that they were in from that past life. So is this a case of someone being too attached to his/her physical body and not being able to let go?

Truthful Travel – 03.15.12

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:49:26 -0600

Student Question: I was wondering what your opinion is about travel? I know that travel can be a very rewarding experience and not just another way to spend time, but what do you think?

Toxic Love – 03.15.12

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:23:41 -0600

Student Question: We were talking about the breast as a symbol, and I was wondering if that relates back down to food as well?

Avoiding Masters Discourse – 03.15.12

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:56:39 -0600

Student Question: During our discussion on masters discourse tonight someone bought up the point that as the head of his family he has children who expect to be told what to do and to be given guidance. How does someone who finds himself in that role avoid getting into master’s discourse?

A Single Truth - 03.15.12

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:44:01 -0600

Excerpt: “What is being taught in Sat Yoga, and what has been taught since the beginning of time, is to perceive things as they are... to perceive reality as it is... and this means to perceive from the place of truth... the place within that is free of illusion - free of projection - free of distortion - free of any filters that create an inability or a block or an obstacle to realizing what is…. And what the sages teach from out of that pure realization of the self is that it is an illusion that there are entities. This is not a world made up of a bunch of separate entities, but that a single intelligence and a single real and a single truth - a single being.... Supreme Being expresses its nature in the reflection of the nature that is this phenomenal plane that we call the universe…. We meditate in order to get in touch with that highest level of truth, so that we can perceive free of all the filters which are the cause of our suffering.... The illusion of being a separate entity in a world of entities that is always therefore in power struggles and in envy and comparison and disdain, or putting some on alters and throwing others off of alters and feeling like one ultimately is the judge of all of those other entities even if one feels inferior them…. And liberation is simply liberation from these narratives that peg you into some false entityhood and don’t allow the expansion into the infinite... consciousness that you are and therefore instead of bliss there is some kind of suffering….” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, March 15, 2012

Internal Silence – 03.15.12

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:37:51 -0600

Student Question: When you are in a state of pure silence and you have to do activities in your life, how can you communicate in language without thinking and breaking the silence?

Are Languages Archetypes? - 03.15.12

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:48:47 -0600

Student Question: Can old languages like Sanskrit for example be archetypes?

Aspects of the Self – 03.08.12

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:46:12 -0600

Student Question: I see that there is a lot of reading and study groups offered at the school and I was wondering how that’s fits in with the practice of silencing the mind?

Law of Attraction – 03.08.12

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:21:46 -0600

Student Question: Is the Law of Attraction just another way to explain illusion?

Real Knowledge – 03.08.12

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:21:13 -0600

Student Question: What is the relationship between thinking and knowledge and or wisdom?

Mind and Heart – 03.08.12

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:03:44 -0600

Student Question: Here at Sat Yoga we focus on silencing the mind. In some other traditions they talk about the heart and opening the heart. Is there a difference between these approaches?

Bardo States – 03.08.12

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:51:58 -0600

Student Question: If the body dies and you don’t achieve liberation, is it possible that the soul may still achieve liberation without the body?

Is Id It? – 03.08.12

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:51:12 -0600

Student Question: In English we use the terms like “she’s got it,” or “they want to have it,” or “someone wants to be it,” but always using the word “it.” When I have tried to translate it into Spanish, there is no way just to say “it.” It makes me wonder, what is the real etymology of the word “it?” I mean is “it” ultimately like “that?” God: is that what “it” is?

Regression? – 03.08.12

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:46:49 -0600

Student Question: How is it possible that people who have had out of body experiences and experiences from other lives still identify with the body if they know that this is not what they are?

The Illusion of Bondage – 03.08.12

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:32:52 -0600

Student Question: In your teaching you said that consciousness is bound to the ego, and I was wondering how that works?

Obstacles to Liberation – 03.08.12

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:06:34 -0600

Student Question: Why is it that there are people like monks who are living in Monasteries who have committed their lives to a path but have not achieved liberation?

Autism – 03.08.12

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:47:28 -0600

Student Question: Can you talk about autistic people and what has happened with them internally and what their experience is like?

Phobia – 03.08.12

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:11:37 -0600

Student Question: What is phobia?

Illusion – 03.08.12

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:45:38 -0600

Student Question: What is the purpose and function of illusion?

Being What Is – 03.08.12

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:26:27 -0600

Excerpt: “It is said that there are many paths. It is also said there are no paths. And it is also said that there is only one disguised as many… And here we teach what has historically been considered the most direct understanding of Self-realization and liberation… Liberation from suffering and that means liberation from illusion…. And so to say that a path is the most direct path is to say that you are not going through any indirect intellectual concepts or belief systems or practices that require you to believe that there is someone who is trying to achieve something because that is already the illusion that we are trying to break free of…. And so if you carry that further you come to the recognition that all concepts are false because they are indirect representations of what is, rather than simply being what is…. What is, is Emptiness…. There is an awareness, if you want to call it that, or consciousness that is prior to all the objects that appear in consciousness, because no objects could appear--whether sensations or concepts or images or memories or fantasies or emotions-- unless there was a container of consciousness that was empty and that could be filled with those objects. But mental objects. Not real objects. Objects that appear and disappear and have no substance….” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, March 08, 2012.

Self Esteem – 03.01.12

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:00:50 -0600

Student Question: Can you define self-esteem?

Am I Growing? – 03.01.12

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:36:32 -0600

Student Question: You said tonight that it in meditation it doesn't really matter if you do not experience something amazing and the truth is that I have never experienced anything like that. All I can say is that I feel better and I am not even interested in putting it into words how I feel better, but sometimes a question does arise - How do I know that I am growing?

You have the Power – 03.01.12

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:10:28 -0600

Student Question: Do we have to understand to really let something go?

Crazy Making – 03.01.12

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:57:39 -0600

Student Question: How are we supposed to learn from people who complicate our lives? Is it a case of seeing the way not to behave and the way not to treat other people?

Money – 03.01.12

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:44:12 -0600

Student Question: What is the egos relationship to money and how can we develop a more authentic relationship with it then what it currently represents in society today?

A False Question - 03.01.12

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:26:51 -0600

Student Question: My whole life I was taught that we are human beings who are here to live a human experience. I mean as human beings we are afraid and we cry and experience anger and all of those things that supposedly define human beings, as well as having an ego. But here in Sat Yoga what I have learned, and I don’t know if I am misunderstood, but we are divine beings? The Atman, the True Self is the Divine. My question is, are we truly human beings? What defines human nature? Do we want to separate from the human experience and focus more on the divine self?

What is Humility – 03.01.12

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:19:51 -0600

Student Question: How do you define humility, and is it something that you can cultivate, or does it come from the heart? Sometimes when I feel that I am practicing it, for example, if someone says something that I know is untrue, or feel that they are judging me or an injustice has been done, but I keep silent, after a while when I am alone I feel really sad and I cry.

Follow a Feeling - 03.01.12

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:30:54 -0600

Student Question: We learn here that every issue that one experiences in life comes from the root idea of separateness from god. Can carrying through with one particular issue and using all of our focus and will power to follow that to its core and not letting the mind become distracted be enough to then in turn dissolve other issues that are all somehow intertwined?

Beyond The Illusion – 03.01.12

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:01:29 -0600

Student Question: Sometimes in relationships you can recognize that you are acting out and that the relationship is illusory but there is a great strength that you cannot leave that illusion. It seems like you still like to stay in that place. I am wondering if one cannot go beyond that illusion because one has not gone deep enough into the silence, or if there is something else that you can elaborate on?

Does Maya Have a Higher Purpose? – 03.01.12

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 09:05:55 -0600

Student Question: Sometimes if we observe Maya it seems like there is a higher purpose even within itself. Is this higher purpose to be a waking of the mind? Is that the only purpose of it?

The End of Suffering – 03.01.12

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:59:55 -0600

I have read about so many spiritual teachers and gurus who have woken up because of suffering? Is that just the old fashion way to do it? I know of five or six who got to the point where they were so miserable and they didn't want to live anymore and then they were able to see through. What are your thoughts on that?

What is Meditation? - 03.01.12

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:05:18 -0600

Excerpt: “We are here to meditate together. Do we all know what that means? It is very simple, we tend to make very complex ideas and make it difficult for ourselves. It is the simple clarification of what is meant by the word ‘I.’ That is all; nothing more difficult than that... And so a good meditation is when clarity is achieved; that is all. Don’t think a good meditation means you are seeing lights and you’re in some trance or you have achieved some exalted sublime state. No. Clarity on the nature of ‘I’ and you’re done, because when that is clear there’s really no one left to meditate anymore… Everyone seems to use the word ‘I’ a lot, but do we know what we mean when that word comes out of the mouth or in thought? Do you know what it means?.... As Sri Ramana says, tiny little word - and because we get it wrong - we don’t know accurately what it means - all the suffering in the world is created by one tiny mistake. So if you want to end all the suffering in the world, just get clarity on the word ‘I’….” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, March 01, 2012

The Self Impelled Community – 02.27.12

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:32:48 -0600

Excerpt: “The Self comes under no laws, but is the source of all genuine law. And that law is naturally holocentric because it serves no individual, it plays no favorites. The Self is therefore the source of divine order and it brings about unity, fairness, justice, community. Community is only possible from and as the presence of divine love. No humans can create community – no human egos – they can only distort and pervert the love that is our true legacy, destiny, identity.” Recorded on the afternoon of Monday, February 27, 2012.

No Need for Images – 02.16.12

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:15:48 -0600

Student Question: You spoke about how the most important thing is to have a desire for realizing the Self. I found that while I was meditating I really needed to have an image or something that I could focus on so that I could center all of my desire into that and try to realize the self, but I couldn't find anything?

Desire for the Self – 02.16.12

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:11:40 -0600

Student Question: Sometimes when I sit down and start meditating I try to focus on my heartbeat in order to get into a state. After a while I forget about my heart and start feeling my forehead getting heavy and it feels like my body goes to sleep and then all I can feel is that point on my forehead. I am wondering what is happening to me and whether it is normal or whether it is some kind of identification with my body and why is it happening if I really want to focus on my heart?

The Energy of the Self – 02.16.12

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:33:29 -0600

Student Question: I feel you said once but am not sure, that anxiety and kundalini are the same thing or that anxiety is kundalini trapped and misunderstood or something along those lines?

Caught Up – 02.16.12

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:13:04 -0600

Student Question: I keep getting caught up when I ask “who am I”, because the “I” keeps me going in circles?

The Beginning Point – 02.16.12

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:03:36 -0600

Student Comment: I resonate with the idea that images are at the imaginary level--or, rather, I resonated with that idea when I was growing up. It feels like the religious image is kind of a double-edged sword because it can either aid one in devotion or it can be misinterpreted. I could never relate to people loving the image of the Virgin Mary, for example, but since we have been studying great beings, like Ramakrishna or Padre Pio, who also used the medium of an image to relate to God, I see that it can be used in a completely different way.”

The Witness State – 02.16.12

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:52:27 -0600

Student Question: What does the witness, witness?

Friendship – 02.16.12

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:24:40 -0600

Student Question: Can you talk a little bit about friendship in the Kali Yuga sense, and also about what is the most sattvic approach to friendship for people moving into the same path together?

Eternal – Silent – Presence – 02.16.12

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:38:44 -0600

Excerpt: "Each of us has ESP, because we are ESP… What we mean here by ESP is Eternal, Silent, Presence. The Self that we are is always in Eternal, Silent, Presence. The one Self, and the one Self is the guru - the only guru. The one Self has been called by many names... The earliest name known is that of Shiva, but all religions give their own name to the same truth… For some religions that self is called the Supreme Self and from the perspective of ignorance, that is accurate. Because all else that portrays itself as a Self is really just an object in consciousness… So there is only one real Self and that Self is beyond words and thoughts and in an inconceivable silence, and even to say that is to go too far because the self is Nirguna. Without qualities that can be in any way considered a description of the Self, because the Self is not an object, not a thing, not an appearance, but we can also say that the self has infinite attributes. The three main ones noted by the Vedas are Sat – Chit – Ananda…." Recorded on the evening of Thursday, February 16, 2012.

Surviving the Rat Race – 02.09.12

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:20:17 -0600

Student Question: Can an egoless self survive the rat race?

The Ego is Trauma - 02.09.12

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:38:02 -0600

Student Question: I am curious to know how you would bridge hysteria with post-traumatic stress and could you explain how the two relate?

Opposites of the Ego - 02.09.12

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:33:11 -0600

Student Question: I have something I would like some clarity on. Thursdays are difficult for me in the sense that I feel pulled in two opposite directions. First we have a study group class that is very focused on theory and analysis and going into the ego and trying to understand our mind and then the meditation where we are told you are not the ego?

Perceiving the Divine Light – 02.09.12

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:22:28 -0600

Student Question: Lately in meditation and especially in group meditations I have been experiencing a lot of pressure in my head and especially in between my eyes. I have heard that it may have a connection with the opening of the third eye? I was wondering if you expand a little a bit upon that?

The Teachings are Eternal – 02.09.12

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:53:44 -0600

Student Question: I wonder if spiritual teachings evolve with time or if they are just different translations of the same thing?

The Depth Dimension - 02.09.12

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:59:48 -0600

Excerpt: "If we can radically let go of the need for the others approval or gaze or touch or their desire - If we can radically detach from our own self-image based on the body or based on the mind - Based on achievements and prestige or social status - If we can let go of all of that, then the real search can finally get under way… Because those are the anchors that moor us in the physical plane where we cannot find the self… They moor us in attachments to biological family and we cannot find the spiritual parents that live in the depth dimension… But the light from that source - from the energy within - from the supreme self - Is always there guiding us and as we begin to disidentify from the physical form and the sensual realm and its pleasures and pains that follow quickly one upon the other… To realize some, more enduring peace and joy… And we recognize that the mind itself with all of it thoughts is another form of alienation from our being. It’s an attempt to grasp the self, that can never be the self, that can only at best point to the self, and so then the process of self-inquiry enters the phase were it goes beyond the mind… It enters the phase of being the silent witness of the mind… And it begins to see the patterns of the mind and the traps that the mind plays and all of its illusions; images of a happiness that are a mirage…." Recorded on the evening of Thursday, February 09, 2012.

One Without a Second – 02.02.12

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:36:31 -0600

Excerpt: "The unsurpassed sage Sri Ramana Maharshi has revealed that self-realization is actually a myth… Who is there to realize the self? The self is all that is… Has the self ever been unrealized? So self-realization doesn’t actually happen…. Take for example that if you have mold on your walls in your home you would probably want to scrub it off… well the ego is kind of like a mold isn’t it? Growing on the surface of the self… And so people scrub it off and then what is left is pure awareness… But to that awareness is there ever a wall? Was there ever a surface? That’s an illusion only ever held by the illusory mold itself which was never real…. So there are no things; things are an illusion of a mind that objectifies with concepts… Take away the concepts. No objects - no world - no self… but pure bliss - pure grace - pure awareness – pure supreme power and self-knowledge… but all experienced by the one without a second…" Recorded on the evening of Thursday, February 02, 2012.

Belief in God – 01.26.12

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:55:48 -0600

Student Question: Can one be in peace without believing in God?

The Highest Bliss – 01.26.12

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:06:11 -0600

Excerpt: "Within each of us is the deathless spirit. The eternal self, that lies within and yet beyond, transcending the ego mind and this phenomenal world, and yet it is the very essence and core and center of our being. The purpose of all spiritual practices is to attain the realization of the deathless spirit. This alone confers eternal life, freedom from suffering, from illusion, from karma, and offers the direct union with the Supreme Being…. The most direct way to achieve the realization of the eternal Atman, which is the Holy Spirit, is simply to silence the chatter of the ego mind and hold your attention at the root of the ‘I’ thought. Not the ‘I’ thought itself, but the root which you feel as the urge to think with the word ‘I’…. Once you fall into thought you have moved from the realm of being into the realm of representation and you become alienated from spirit. First into soul and then into ego…. Remember that this world is only a dream in the mind of God. What is real is the Supreme Being. Don’t let yourself remain locked in lower states of false consciousness, but go directly to the source. This can be achieved easily if you do not let yourself to be deceived by negative thoughts. Hold to the silence and the higher you go the more the divine energy will pull you up and there will be no struggle at all. It will happen automatically as if your mind has become an anti-gravity apparatus, which it is because the mind is light. Let the light take you up into the highest bliss…." Recorded on the evening of Thursday, January 26, 2012.

Extracting the Essence - 01.19.12

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:57:53 -0600

Excerpt: "What we learn from Yoga and the science of the extraction of the ultimate essence is that all growth is about the extraction of that which is pure and meaningful from that which is impure and to be rejected.… It is to be extracted from our own consciousness. That is the only way we will ever know God – by extracting out the pure God-presence out of our grosser, impure consciousness. This is what we do in meditation. It’s an extraction process….it is a skill and an art that must be taught, and has been taught, through every culture until our most recent one…. there are really five stages of this process of extraction…" Recorded on the evening of Thursday, January 19, 2012.

The Fear of Freedom – 12.08.11

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:21:58 -0600

Excerpt: “In Christianity there is a trinity as we all know. The Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. This trinity is an archetype and exists in every religion and every spiritual path although it has many different names in different paths… You’ll find it in Buddhism, you’ll find it in Hinduism, and you’ll find it in Taoism. In the yogic path it is only one of a number of trinity’s however… We could call it the vertical trinity and the equivalent in the yogic tradition is noted by the words Sat – Chit – Ananda…. But you have this power. Erase. Rewrite. That is what is known in religious terms as death and rebirth. That’s all it is. You erase the ego - it’s dead - it’s gone. It won’t be there because it is an artificial structure, if you really whole heartedly want to erase it. The problem is, we love our suffering. We are loyal to it…. Erich Fromm a great psychologist wrote a book called ‘The Fear of Freedom’, and it’s a very important book because what he shows is the reason why there are so many totalitarian governments in the world. So many big brothers that people follow… And it is because they can’t stand freedom… They want someone to tell them what to do….” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, December 08, 2011.

Let’s Break Out of the Box - 12.08.11

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:15:22 -0600

Excerpt: “Is everyone opened to having Christ Consciousness born within you this evening? It is not difficult to achieve that birth but we do need the recognition that Christ Consciousness is our Real Self. It’s not something alien, it’s not something different, it’s not something strange to us. What’s strange is the ego that we have come to believe that we are and that’s what we must be willing to let go of. What are we letting go? A false self. A structure of consciousness that acts as a filter that prevents us from seeing the world as it really is… And so to take that filter away - to become realized – all we need to do is to silence the ego mind. Period. No more. Silence is the key. When we can silence the mind, which is what meditation is… Contemplation... Then the Christ Consciousness emerges from within us and it comes in the form of an open heart through which pours divine love….” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, December 08, 2011.

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Overcoming Ego Love – 09.10.11

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:03:53 -0600

Student Question: How do you overcome jealousy and possessiveness?

Taken for a Ride - 09.10.11

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:50:45 -0600

Student Question: I was hoping you could explain to me why it is that every month especially around the full moon it seems that something happens with my energy and if I am not centered I become more susceptible to being pushed and pulled by it?

A Catastrophic Fantasy - 09.10.11

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:40:44 -0600

Student Question: I once heard a psychologist use the term catastrophic fantasy and I am not sure if that is a common term or not, but I was hoping you could explain this a bit more for me?

What is Divine Love? – 09.10.11

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:12:47 -0600

Student Question: Can you please explain a little bit about the difference between the Divine Love that we teach here in Sat Yoga and the love concept that we have in our society and in movies?

Open Heartedness – 09.10.11

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:50:10 -0600

Student Question: Is it possible to be in a state of open heart without being vulnerable?

Ashram Celebration - 09.10.11

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:43:18 -0600

Excerpt: “In our modern world we have lost the joy of living with nature. We have become so alienated in these cities with their pollution and there artificiality and now even more so with the internet and the media we are several steps removed from the real of life... So an Ashram is a chance to get back to our real values…. Soon enough people will come to realize that food doesn't grow in the supermarkets and they will be surprised to find that there is nothing on the shelves… Only then we will remember that food comes from farms and from people getting their hands dirty in the soil and from milking cows and from living in harmony with nature and following the laws of nature… It is because we have arrogantly tried to deny those and control those - and even genetically modify the products of nature - that we are suffering the karmic blow-back of that arrogance…. So an ashram is a humble effort to come back to our roots…. You have to be very humble to get down on your knees and dig in the garden, and yet that is where the power comes from - and that is where life comes from… So by being willing to be humble and to live humble lives we are becoming empowered again…. Yoga is a science of consciousness, but it is also the art, and the art requires skill to silence the false consciousness of the ego mind in order to receive the energy and the power of the True Self… The Real Self is there, it is within you now it is always there, but we don’t have access to it because the ego mind clouds it over…. So an Ashram is a place to recover that peace - that deep peace which resolves all of the questions and confusions and depressions and anxieties that everyone is plagued with today…” Recorded on the evening of Saturday, September 10, 2011.”

Acceptance of What Is – 09.08.11

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:36:34 -0600

Student Question: I have something that I would like you to clarify please. When you are being silent is it that there is no such thing as silent awareness? Is it rather that when you are in silence you experience awareness. Is that a good way to think about it? This came up because I was contemplating if there is a difference between being silent and being aware, i.e. silent awareness versus just silent nothing.

Is it Real? – 09.08.11

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:26:21 -0600

Student Question: I have noticed that after having spent days at a time in Maya, I become so disgusted with it and am totally exhausted by it, that I don’t even want to bring it up in a session as I am sick of thinking about it. I understand that this is the censor repressing the problem and it is similar to what I experienced in tonight’s class. I have been in Maya for a couple of days and I came to class thinking that I am going to speak to you about it, but then I come and hear an incredible teaching and have a very meaningful meditation and then that Maya kind of dissolves as you realize how ridiculous it was. Now I know that the problem has not been processed and I wonder if it is even real. What should I do?

Character – 09.08.11

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:52:51 -0600

Student Question: What is character and how is it formed?

The Realization of God Consciousness – 09.08.11

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:48:32 -0600

Student Question: Is there a distinction between raising levels of consciousness and expanding awareness?

The Double Bind – 09.08.11

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:42:02 -0600

Student Question: I am in a situation where my parents want me to do a certain thing and they believe I have to do it. I don’t want to do it just because it is their expectation, although I do believe that it is something worth doing. If I choose not to do it in order to pursue something else, then I am left feeling bad about not doing both something worthwhile and what my parents wanted me to do. In this case the feeling of guilt is created by doing something that I think is more important. What should I do?

What is Stubbornness? - 09.08.11

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:24:48 -0600

Student Question: What is stubbornness, and when it becomes too intense, does the ego then crack?

The Cosmic Dream - 09.08.11

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:56:33 -0600

In the postulant preparation class we studied the Seven Virtual Matriculations. The last one was to realize that we are the oneness which dreams the cosmic dream and that that in itself is a dream, and needs be let go of. I was thinking that if all of these habit’s that we are developing are part of the same cosmic dream, then are these all ways of enjoying it?

Inverse Narcissism – 09.08.11

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:50:30 -0600

Student Question: What is inverse narcissism and how does it work?

Socialization - 09.08.11

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:36:48 -0600

Excerpt: "In childhood a process begins that the psychologists call socialization… what it really consists of is the stapling together of the pure awareness that is the self with the belief enforced upon you that you are the body (the identification with the body)… that is controlled by the third element which is language… you are given a name and the name sutures consciousness to the body and from then on people can call you and tell you what to do and that is in societies interest… once you buy into that through your affirmation of that socialization process, you no longer have access to the pure awareness that is your eternal self…." Recorded on the evening of Thursday, September 08, 2011.

Intelligent Entities – 09.08.11

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:24:39 -0600

Student Question: I was wondering if everything outside of awareness like fears for example, are forms of intelligence or entities that are seeking expression through awareness, or even us as that awareness?

No Excuses - 09.08.11

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:17:12 -0600

Student Question: How can I be loyal to myself while the ego’s agendas are still running? How can I make good decisions when it’s coming from an egoic state?

Maintaining Silence – 09.08.11

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:40:01 -0600

Student Question: Why is it so hard to keep ourselves from thinking when meditating, and what can we do to maintain these small gaps of silence? Is there a practice that can accelerate the process?

Worried – 09.08.11

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:33:03 -0600

Student Question: What is worry?

Pain with Suffering - 09.01.11

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:15:07 -0600

Student Question: Is suffering always accompanied by pain, or can you suffer without pain? Do they necessarily go together?

Must be Logic – 09.01.11

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:13:14 -0600

Student Question: In the study group we have been talking about desires as part of a must be logic and I wanted to know if you could expand on that? I found myself using it recently and it feels like you say “no it’s not that it must be; you must want it”. Take for example the case of Liberation: you must want liberation, but it’s not that it must happen.

An Illusory Trap – 09.01.11

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:08:44 -0600

Excerpt: “Buddhists say that there are three types of desire. The first one, the lowest one, is the desire for pleasure. Then they say that more refined minds realize that what the desire for pleasure really was, is the desire to be, and that that’s the real underlying intention of all the various particular desires and objects of demand and lust… All of those objects that we think cause us pleasure actually do not, but they give us a sense that we are. They give us a sense that we can control something out there “therefore I am”… But of course the object is always a disappointment because you don’t really want that object. It’s not it, and it doesn’t give you the truth of your being, and therefore it is always something that turns into pain rather than pleasure. And so the ego eventually settles for the equation “I am suffering therefore I am”… But that doesn’t do it either because it [the ego] realizes that it is actually suffering because it is not, but it wants to get out of it suffering so the third kind of desire is the desire not to be… This creates a paradox of who is desiring not to be. The very fact of having the desire makes it seem that you are something, and therefore the desire necessarily fails in its effect… All of this is the logic of Buddhism that attempts to provide a way out of the trap of desire, which is ultimately the trap of an illusory sort of being trying to make itself feel real and failing again and again repetitively, but because this being is unreal to start with there is really no reason to find a way out of a trap which is also an illusion…" Recorded on the evening of Thursday, September 01, 2011.

What is Pain? - 09.01.11

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:47:18 -0600

Student Question: Recently someone told me that chilies are just pain, or rather that what’s in the chili is not flavor it’s just pain. I have done some study on this and I started tonight’s meditation in a lot of physical pain in one little area of body and then it went away. I know that obviously it’s not really a pain in the body and I even feel that it’s not a pain in the mind, but for whatever it’s not, I don’t understand what pain is?

Sacred Ethics – 09.01.11

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:08:20 -0600

Student Question: I was wondering if at this center, in regards to the running of it, if it is based upon some kind of divine ethics or some kind of divine ethical framework? What is the logic of the ethical framework for a spiritual community?

Jesus is a Metaphor - 09.01.11

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:32:38 -0600

Student Question: You said, from what I understand, that cosmic consciousness was not the same as liberation. I used to think that it was the same, but then in the book we read by Walter Russell it said that only Jesus attained cosmic consciousness and oneness with God. It doesn’t seem like that really makes sense because then what about examples like Buddha and Sri Aurobindo?

The Abstraction of Mathematics – 08.25.11

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:15:17 -0600

Student Question: It seems like mathematics, image and language are interdependent. I was thinking of an image which could have a mathematical expression. You can’t talk about mathematics, however, if you don’t have language. I imagine it would be meaningless. I now feel, nevertheless, there is another question: is there a pure mathematics?

Astonishment – 08.25.11

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:41:41 -0600

Student Question: In your article in Reality Sandwich you talked about how the cutting edge should be ridden in astonishment or something to that effect. I am wondering what the secret is to being in astonishment and having it not be a distraction or some kind of thing in itself that you get wrapped up in. What is the secret to being detached from astonishment and yet still be able to call it astonishment or amazement?

Cultivating a Community – 08.25.11

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:24:56 -0600

Student Question: Can you please talk about what I would call the "art of replacing yourself?" There is a book that you gave me a long time ago which talks about creating community and it spoke of this. It specifically mentioned the necessity of replacing oneself as one of the final steps of sustainability. Usually the ego wants to be special and hold on to its specialness and be the only one that can do something, which gives it some sort of power. So I was thinking about this and was hoping you could talk about this?

The Fallen Patriarchy – 08.25.11

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:55:13 -0600

Student Question: Can you say something about the fall of patriarchy. I was under the impression that we are in a capitalist patriarchy right now, but in the study group Radha was speaking of the fall of it?

Purification through Service – 08.25.11

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:08:46 -0600

Student Question: If there is a particular situation or work that the ego dislikes, do you recommend doing that work for purification purposes?

The Monkey Mind - 08.25.11

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:10:01 -0600

Excerpt: “It’s the mind of the ego that creates all the problems with its chaotic thoughts based on false premises of misunderstanding of reality, producing anxiety and depression and all the other negative emotions and symptoms of suffering…All of that can be cut simply through silencing the mind, but to do that we have to realize that “I am not the mind”…. Silent awareness contains the mind; it contains everything in the universe which is actually mind. All there is, is mind…. But there is a difference between the ego’s little mind and the cosmic mind of God, and then the source of the cosmos - The ultimate noumenon…." Recorded on the evening of Thursday, August 25, 2011.

Dementia – 08.25.11

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:10:19 -0600

Student Question: What do you think about dementia? What is happening to that soul that suddenly doesn’t know who he or she is or where they are? What has happened to that spirit?

Beyond Conventional Obligations - 08.25.11

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:59:57 -0600

Student Question: I am finding that I have an inner conflict when writing emails. For example, my friend just got married and I wrote "I hope you had a nice wedding" or a friend of mine’s father is sick and I write "I hope he gets better," or "I hope you enjoy these photos," or whatever; it is it feels like I am giving them a command. What if they were not supposed to have a nice wedding? What if his father is not supposed to get better? I feel this conflict very strongly and I don’t know what to write or how to approach this?

What is Reality? – 08.25.11

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:58:00 -0600

Student Question: You mentioned that our consciousness constructs our reality and I have been thinking about that lately, but I have been wondering as to the extent of that. For example if I walk by and there are people being disrespectful and causing problems, is that like a reflection? Is every single thing just a projection?

Mathematics and Logic – 08.25.11

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:48:12 -0600

Student Question: What is the relationship between mathematics and logic? Is it that one is a subset of the other? I tend to think that mathematics is more fundamental, or is it that they are just two sides of the same coin? It just seems like mathematics is logic at a very codified and more universal level.

Total Surrender to God – 08.18.11

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:18:01 -0600

Student Question: Does devotion require total surrendering, because I can see people who are devoted but not totally surrendered to God?

Unconditional Love of the Self – 08.18.11

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:30:21 -0600

Excerpt: “When we are sitting in silence we are in Holy Communion with the Self within that is recognized as Being reflected as the entire manifest cosmos. And so there is nothing to do just be…. This is a dream and you are the dreamer and so everyone you meet in the dream is an aspect of your Self and so each of us here are reflections of different facets of our own Self…. And so by coming together as a community we discover all those aspects of the inner shadow that we can’t find because it’s repressed but our unconscious turns out to be the world itself and so it is not hidden at all…. And so when we come together in a spiritual community we are doing it in order to learn unconditional love of the Self. Not the individual self but the one Self…. The worship of God is not the worship of an other it is the worship of the Self…” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, August 18, 2011.

The Hero’s Journey – 08.18.11

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:21:40 -0600

Student Question: I believe that the path to enlightenment must start with a personal individual choice. In today’s world it is very difficult to follow that path because even though you have the purpose and the intention if you’re in an environment that is unsupportive, like for example ones family who may ignore the path, it takes you a lot of effort and it is very difficult to get there. So the importance of being in a community like this is that you find like minded people that can reinforce that path. Even though I can understand that we all have geniuses in all of us the challenge is to really believe it. I think about how much other people’s thoughts can influence that, like I could fly but nobody believes I can so I can not. So the question is how much can other people’s beliefs affect us?

Thing and Think - 08.18.11

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:13:14 -0600

Student Question: Do thoughts really become things and how fast is the outcome? Does it depend on how intense the thought is?

Consciousness Has an Immediate Effect – 08.18.11

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:10:37 -0600

Student Question: Does the way that we think of others even when not expressed, have any effect on them?

Eye on the Prize – 18.08.11

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:07:46 -0600

Student Question: We were talking about the lotus position and you mentioned that sitting in that position can activate sanskaras. I have experienced this kind of thing in meditation and realized that even though my whole body would be still, I would continue to move my eyes when they are closed. When I am able to keep my eyes still it seems to be a whole different thing. Could you speak about that because it seems like there is a connection between eyes moving and a chattering mind?

Alluring Images – 08.18.11

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:54:55 -0600

Student Question: I have these beautiful images coming up in meditation and although I feel peaceful, I wonder if these images are appearing as a distraction to pull me away from the stillness?

Fixing the Ego? – 08.18.11

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:50:06 -0600

Student Question: In your teaching you mentioned that the ego had characteristics such as greed, hatred and selfishness embedded in it. When I think of the word embedded it makes me think of something that is set in stone; it’s not moving. So then I thought, “what’s the point of wasting any time trying to fix the ego?” Is it even possible to fix? I know it’s kind of a literal thing. It kind of makes sense to steer around it and go straight for the Self. So is the idea of fixing the ego even worth the time?

Pain and Suffering – 08.18.11

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:28:53 -0600

Student Question: What is pain and its purpose or meaning, and is pain always the same as suffering? What is the difference?

A Wandering Mind? – 08.11.11

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:34:05 -0600

Student Question: Do you have any advice to help me mediate longer when my mind wanders off?

Perfection of Ones Love for God – 08.11.11

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:52:27 -0600

Excerpt: “The idea of Christian perfection was the perfection of one’s love for God….We don’t care whether you believe in duality or nonduality here, the point is let the love which ultimately is nonduality isn’t it, isn’t love union? Whether it achieves an actual ontological dissolution on the boundaries between the soul and God is irrelevant, but the experience that you will have if you allow yourself to sit with that intention of dissolving in love with God and it’s sincere, as the first commandment in the old testament says, ‘love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, all thy soul and all thy might’. If you will do that and with that consistency of attention that is focused within, not on an imaginary God on a cloud somewhere, but within as the Self, you will break through the duality and enter into a state of grace...” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, August 11, 2011.

Seeing the Divine in Everyone – 08.11.11

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:34:05 -0600

Student Question: I had a question about projections. We talk about projections a lot. In thinking about the question I came to some conclusions but I wanted to run if by you just for validation. Let’s say for example we have a new employee at work and this guy drinks and cusses and swears and everything else, but it is not necessarily projecting if you can see this behavior happening. It seems that this is all feedback information for you, which you kind of have to accept. The other night in one of the lessons you said that people change everyday so you don’t have to store anything. The next day when you see him you treat him the same way without any projections and just respond in whatever is appropriate for that person on that day. So the conclusion was that fine they can act however they want to but you are just holding your space and not projecting and that is all you have to do?

Recollection of Experience – 08.11.11

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:26:10 -0600

Student Question: Do you think that once we leave this experience on earth that we will ever have any recollection of it or when our soul moves to other realms will this just be another lost layer in the unconscious that we won’t be able to remember?

A Natural Rebellion – 08.11.11

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:22:52 -0600

Student Question: What do you think the significance is of the world being able to observe the death of societies in different places versus in times when there wasn’t technology and people in different countries and continents who were unaware on this physical level of what was happening in other places?

What is the Unconscious? – 08.11.11

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:16:27 -0600

Student Question: What is the Unconscious?

The Role of the Rescuer – 08.11.11

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:20:25 -0600

Student Question: You mentioned that often a lot of people’s unconscious urges manifest themselves in close relationships and families and what not. It makes me think of a friend that I guess I would say is caught up in his egoic existence and around a lot of family issues and a lot of family pressure to do certain things and to be a certain way. Now just for the background this individual was raised with Buddhist beliefs so he has some leanings that way but still is totally immersed in the egoic existence right now. Now my question is, to what extent can a friend help someone like that out of the spiral and the problems he is in. Are there really ways to help someone who is not ready to make that move?

Soul is the Vehicle of Spirit - 08.11.11

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:09:50 -0600

Student Question: What is the connection between the soul and awareness?