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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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Friday Apr 27, 2012
Transcending All Myths – 04.27.12
Friday Apr 27, 2012
Friday Apr 27, 2012
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.
Thursday Apr 19, 2012
The One True Person of No Rank – 04.19.12
Thursday Apr 19, 2012
Thursday Apr 19, 2012
Thursday Apr 12, 2012
What is Déjà vu? - 04.12.12
Thursday Apr 12, 2012
Thursday Apr 12, 2012
Student Question: What is déjà vu?
Thursday Apr 12, 2012
Obstacles to Reaching Higher Consciousness – 04.12.12
Thursday Apr 12, 2012
Thursday Apr 12, 2012
Student Question: How can I know if my meditation practice has stagnated?
Thursday Apr 12, 2012
Growth Has No End – 04.12.12
Thursday Apr 12, 2012
Thursday Apr 12, 2012
Student Question: How can we guide children from a very early age to find their awareness?
Thursday Apr 12, 2012
A Sacred Vehicle – 04.12.12
Thursday Apr 12, 2012
Thursday Apr 12, 2012
Student Question: Is the body a reflection of the mind?
Thursday Apr 12, 2012
Climbing the Ladder of Consciousness – 04.12.12
Thursday Apr 12, 2012
Thursday Apr 12, 2012
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.
Thursday Apr 12, 2012
Direct God Realization – 04.12.12
Thursday Apr 12, 2012
Thursday Apr 12, 2012
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.
Thursday Apr 12, 2012
Emptiness of Ego is the Fullness of God - 04.12.12
Thursday Apr 12, 2012
Thursday Apr 12, 2012
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.