Wisdom Teachings - Sat Yoga, Costa Rica

Student Question:  Is suffering always accompanied by pain, or can you suffer without pain?  Do they necessarily go together?

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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.

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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?

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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?

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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?

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