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Spiritual teachings by Shunyamurti, the founder and director of the Sat Yoga Ashram - a wisdom school, ashram, and the home of a vibrant spiritual community based in Costa Rica. Visit us at satyoga.org
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Thursday May 13, 2010
There is no Truth - 05.13.10
Thursday May 13, 2010
Thursday May 13, 2010
Student Question: In my experience, I’ve seen that one can interpret a situation in many different ways, and sometimes it seems that I can interpret a situation in an infinite number of ways. Is that freedom, or is that still part of the ego?
“No, freedom is when you don’t bother interpreting it anymore,” remarks Shunyamurti the spiritual director of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. “All discourses are false. All interpretations are wrong because every concept, if you look at it deep enough, it flows into the other. Good and evil are the same. Every philosopher who has reached Ultimate Reality recognizes that: form is emptiness. Good is bad even. . . . All of these distinctions we make are part of duality. And so any discourse that you create is always leaving out a shadow that is its opposite that is actually embedded in it; it is its own essence.” “So the truth is that there is no . . . Truth?” “There is no Truth—but don’t take that as a truth!” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, May 13, 2010.
Thursday May 13, 2010
Duality in the Creation - 05.13.10
Thursday May 13, 2010
Thursday May 13, 2010
Student Question: Does the Creation not have duality inherent in it?
“Yes that’s right,” argues Shunyamurti, the founder of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica, but “that duality is a unity. The nothingness and the fullness, the form and the emptiness (as the Buddhists say), Samsara and Nirvana—they are the same; they are not a duality. It only seems like a duality from within the ego. And that’s why the ego cannot function very well in the duality, because it does not see it clearly, and it has this paranoid perspective on it. Once you transcend it, you will live in the world without suffering.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, May 13, 2010.
Thursday May 13, 2010
The Ego is a Multiplicity - 05.13.10
Thursday May 13, 2010
Thursday May 13, 2010
Student Question: Is the ego the one that creates duality?
“Well the ego is a creation in duality,” reminds Shunyamurti, the director of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. “And it is structured as a multiplicity; it’s even more than a duality.” The average person must create a number of different masks and sub-personalities to deal with the larger society. So, paradoxically, one has to establish a strong and stable ego before one is able to transcend it. Recorded on the evening of Thursday, May 13, 2010.
Thursday May 13, 2010
Possession in Meditation? - 05.13.10
Thursday May 13, 2010
Thursday May 13, 2010
Student Question: Some people say that when you are meditating, and you go out-of-body, that there are good entities—or bad entities—that can possess you. Is that true?
“No, not if you’re meditating the way we do. We’re not saying to leave the body; we’re saying to simply leave the superficial mind that is chattering,” explains Shunyamurti, the founder of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. The real danger is more the demons that are in your unconscious mind rather than any external entities. “But anxieties may come up that have been held down, but if you remain the observer of it, and actually offer it to the source of your Being, you will dissolve it. So it’s more an opportunity than a danger.” So if you can remain the in the position of the detached observer, then you will be much safer than you would in a fragmented, or normal, state of consciousness. Recorded on the evening of Thursday, May 13, 2010.
Thursday May 06, 2010
You Can’t Fill the Lack of Your Parents - 05.06.10
Thursday May 06, 2010
Thursday May 06, 2010
Student Comment: One thing I remember that helped me free myself from my parents was remembering that it is my karmic responsibility to let them go, and that I hurt their karma if I cling to them or play the roles that they need me to play in order to fill up the lack that they can’t see.
“Exactly. It’s our responsibility not to fill the lack in the parents, or in any other—so that they will feel the pain of that lack and fill it with God,” reveals Shunyamurti, the director of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. “If you try to fill it, then you keep them unhealthy. You act as a crutch that keeps them from being able to truly find their Real Self.” And by being bound to the biological family this keeps us unable to help the larger families. “And we have to recognize that the world family needs our help now. . . . Don’t think that the biological family is the only family you belong to; it’s only the practice family from which we come so that the real families can emerge.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, May 6, 2010.
Thursday May 06, 2010
What is a Blessing? - 05.06.10
Thursday May 06, 2010
Thursday May 06, 2010
Student Question: We talk a lot about blessings, and sending blessings, but I’m always puzzled by, what exactly is a blessing?
“The entire universe is consciousness,” maintains Shunyamurti, the founder of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. “And so what a blessing is, is the highest benevolent wave of conscious energy that is sent out so that consciousness that had been frozen in some form, that is a state that is alienated from its True Nature—as the very consciousness of God—will be restored to its awareness of its True Nature, and be able to thereby re-attain bliss, health, peace—all of the virtues and qualities of God-consciousness in its pure state.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, May 6, 2010.
Thursday May 06, 2010
Bhakti & Gyana Yoga - 05.06.10
Thursday May 06, 2010
Thursday May 06, 2010
“At the exoteric level there is an apparent difference between Bhakti Yoga and Gyana Yoga,” explains Shunyamurti, the spiritual director of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. Bhakti Yoga can be thought of as devotional worship to God or to a symbol of God. “But in Gyana Yoga, it is still worship, but it is worship with the third eye. It is worship with the clear mind that understands the truth of the nature of reality.” And to truly perform Bhakti Yoga, we must create a circuit, a positive charge that attracts a negative charge. The mind must become negative—it must empty itself out of all thoughts—so that it can be attracted to the “All-Positive pull” of God. And “through this energy circuit, you will be able to download the Divine Love. And when the body-mind is filled with love, then you need nothing more. All of the desire for the lower jouissance—the lower pleasure that brings suffering—will dissolve easily because once you are fulfilled, desire becomes superfluous . . . because all you have—and all you are—has been fulfilled by the Presence of God, which is everything, and the Source of all that is Good.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, May 6, 2010.