Spiritual Teachings With Shunyamurti

Follow a Feeling - 03.01.12

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?