Spiritual Teachings With Shunyamurti

Shunyamurti reads and interprets the Rubais of Rumi: Insane with Love, revealing the main obstacle to Liberation is love for the ego rather than for God, and that moving from reason to radical acceptance is the essential breakthrough to the superconsciousness that is real Love.

Shunyamurti addresses the triad of desire, satisfaction and remorse, and how to live without suffering. In this teaching, Shunyamurti reads from and interprets the Ashtavakra Gita.

Shunyamurti poses the fundamental question of ancient Sat Yogis: Is the world real? He invites us to investigate the synchronicities and magical aspects of reality, and phenomena such as past lives and near-death experiences, to discover the infinite potentials of consciousness that have been inadequately understood by modern science, and can only be understood by those who dare to go beyond the m...

In this early morning teaching, Shunyamurti sums up the human problem today, at the end of this cosmic process, as the loss of the capacity to cooperate. However, this rupture in coherence will eventually bring us back to the "rapture of unity." Shunyamurti sheds further light on this by reading from the Zen Teachings of Huang Po, who reminds us that the Buddha Mind is not particular, and by learn...

Shunyamurti sheds light on the spiritual journey from the perspectives of Hindu mythology and Lacanian psychoanalysis, metaphorically weaving them into an understanding of the three registers of consciousness (the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real) that ultimately must be recognized as an infinite pillar of light.

Shunyamurti reads from Hongzhi’s “Cultivating the Empty Field”, noting that most of these teachings are not understood by the postmodern ego because of its fragmentation and anxiety, but if one can gain distance from thinking, and maintain a cool, dry mind, we can move from sensory intensity to supersensory intensity and recover our infinite imagination.

On the opening night of the Meditation Weekend, Shunyamurti defines Sat Yoga as union with the Real, the Supreme Intelligence that is Sat Chit Ananda. He uses the terms imaginary, symbolic and real to further clarify that this path, through meditation, will lead one to discover what is real and unreal, if one is willing to use the wisdom (gyana) gained to withdraw from the unreal and return to the...

In this seminar teaching, Shunyamurti offers an imaginative illustration - the one-way mirror stage  - to create an example that all egos identify with: You’re in a room as a bodily self, full of BS, and you’re constantly being bombarded by all kinds of programmed messaging - inter-personal, cultural, intra-mental. But in the room, there is a one-way mirror, and the Real Self is on the other side,...

In this teaching, Shunyamurti explains that one must sacrifice the inner child - to release the childish ego that refuses to grow up as a result of one’s karma and one’s willingness to remain a victim - in order to gain the capacities of adulthood necessary to become a community of fearless beings based in divine love that can overcome death and transform the world.

How does one reach a higher level of sanity in this world system? In this teaching, Shunymaurti asks one to determine if one is in Self-rule or ego-rule, because if one wants to be in a state of sanity, one must relinquish the system run by egos and run to God. Since all egos are insane, ego-death is the only sane option, Self-realization the only sane state, so don't let the ego rule your life! 

In this New year's Eve teaching from 2017, Shunyamurti explains that at this unique moment in time, it is particularly important for yogis to recognize that dharma is the key to avoiding bad karma - a practice of humility and purity is essential to deliver oneself from suffering and to assist in delivering the world from its suffering. The world's karmic debt is now due, and it is every yogis' res...

How can one be karma free? In this teaching, Shunyamurti gives a reminder that here and now, all are the unborn Self, which has dreamed the soul vehicle, the body, and the ego, with the power to choose karma or choose bliss. So choose to release your karmic burdens and the ego to which they belong, and live as the blissful Self in the karma-free festival of joy!    

In this festive teaching, Shunyamurti explains that the holidays are holy-days, and all of the religions and traditions - Christmas, Channukah, Diwali to name a few - converge on the one realization that is the true meaning and spirit of all the mythological truths: Now is the time for remembrance and realization of our true nature as the holy light of consciousness that can bring joy to the world...

The world is currently in a state of incoherence and confusion, but in this teaching, Shunyamurti reminds us that wisdom and love can heal the world's problems, leading us from confusion to coherence, and shifting the vibrational frequency of collective to higher states of consciousness, for a complete and total upgrade of the world's operating system...before it's too late!

In this guided meditation, Shunyamurti takes us on a journey deep into the heart, the abode of pure awareness, where consciousness is free of limitations or suffering, and the silence that transcends the world of the ego fills the body with peace and unconditional love, and saturates the mind with the vibrational frequency of stillness. (15 minutes)  

In this excerpt from the opening night teaching of The Direct Path: Liberation Now! retreat, Shunyamurti teaches that in this historic moment, meditation is more relevant than ever, and that those who feel they are suffering from a loss of physical freedom are actually being offered an opportunity to go inward instead of outward, and to transcend to a higher level of being at the apparent end of t...

The ego is a paranoid android! Using the analogy of a computer operating system, Shunyamurti offers insight into the development of the ego structure, explaining the defenses and weaknesses of a system that was implemented in childhood, but on which the ego continues to base its operations. You must upgrade your consciousness to avoid system failure and reprogram the mind to realize the true Progr...

The ultimate purpose of life is...to become delicious enough to be eaten...by God! In this very special retreat teaching, Shunyamurti likens spirituality to the medicinal and culinary arts, noting that the ultimate sacrament and purpose of our lives is to be eaten by God, which means making yourself as delicious--as in loving and truthful--as possible. 

Shunyamurti suggests a thought experiment: Assuming that what we call reality is actually a virtual reality, a video game, what are the implied potentialities of our perceived world? In this classic teaching, he explains the implications and pitfalls of this potential for living reality.

If the world is a video game, are you playing to win? In this recent teaching from our Sangha Retreat, Shunyamurti encourages us to take a quantum leap outside of the matrix in order to view the world as a simulation, a dream in the mind of God in which the dreamer of the game is you!