Spiritual Teachings With Shunyamurti

Perfection of Ones Love for God – 08.11.11

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

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

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

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

Student Question:  What is the Unconscious?

The Role of the Rescuer – 08.11.11

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

Student Question:  What is the connection between the soul and awareness?

Archetypal Energy – 08.11.11

Student Question:  I was thinking about the violence that has occurred just most recently in England and we have studied the archetype of the apocalypse.  Is this a manifestation of that?  We talked about archetypes having their own energy and drawing people into it to act in a certain way. Is that what is occurring?

Overcoming Fear – 08.11.11

Student Question:  Could you give me some tips on overcoming fear while in meditation, or I guess more along the lines of reaching deeper states of meditative experience?