Spiritual Teachings With Shunyamurti

Student Question: What is the superego? If you dissolve the ego, will the superego still be there?

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 anyt...

Excerpt:  “We are here to realize the true self.  The implication of that is that we have not been living in our authentic self, but in some false - unreal - persona… and if we are not living in our real self then we are not living in the real world either…  and if the world is false and the self is false, then things are going to happen that are unsustainable because the false cannot survive the...

Student Question:  What is déjà vu?

Student Question:  How can I know if my meditation practice has stagnated?

Student Question:  How can we guide children from a very early age to find their awareness?

Student Question:  Is the body a reflection of the mind?

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...

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...

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.

Student Question:  Do Vāsanās and Sanskaras have the same meaning?

Student Question:  Do we just have to sit in silence long enough to dissolve the discomfort that arises, or do we need to analyze it?

Student Question:  Why is it that when I have a deep or a good meditation I sometimes want to cry?   Aren’t I supposed to be experiencing bliss?

Student Question:  In meditation when I finally reach some silence it is common that I will then be immediately disrupted or thrown out of it and I don’t really understand why that happens?  I even experience the sensation of losing balance.  Do you know why that is?

Student Question:  In your talk tonight you spoke about going through this mirror of unbearable knowledge, but do you go through it or do you witness it?

Student Question:  How do we learn when on an everyday basis we are in this whirlpool of being aware and wanting to transcend the ego but then at other times being really chaotic. Sometimes that chaos manifests itself physically and then the next day you can be peaceful again so how do we learn to stay in the silence?

Student Question:  Is it possible that Gods Lila is really creating all the suffering in the world?

When you talk about missing your window of opportunity and synchronicity I don’t really understand how that fits in with gods perfect plan.  How is it that you are able to miss a window of opportunity if at the end it is only one step in the path of the perfect plan?

Student Comment:  At the beginning of your talk you said something to the affect that in reality we don’t control anything and in what I would call the ‘business world’, people get so stuck in their power struggles and beliefs and certainties.  They believe that they are going to make something happen in a certain way but often they actually make the situation much worse.  It seems common for nego...

Student Question:  What is dharmaraj in a more formal sense?

Student Question:  I felt your teaching tonight was very appropriate.  I have been thinking a lot this week about a question which I have always had with Christianity.  Even though I know it is a very devotional religion, I have never had that kind of experience with it.  Ironically, it was this week sometime that I was listening to one of those gospel songs and all of a sudden I just broke out in...

Excerpt: “If you read the old Vedanta literature . . . they tend to divide the path into two forms: one they call ‘The Path of the Valiant’ and the other ‘The Path of the Fearful.’ And they say that those who are in fear come to God looking for refuge. . . . And they say ‘The Path of the Valiant,’ on the other hand, is not taking refuge in some god or supernatural force or supreme power or as an o...

Student Question:  Sometimes I have archetypal dreams where a person will tell me about something I have to do and even though when I wake up I can remember what it is, I have no idea how to do it.  I feel like this happens to me a lot.  During the day I worry because I am not sure how I can do what was told to me in the dreams.  Because of this I get stressed and feel guilty about not doing what...

Excerpt:  “So if God made you an offer, that all you would have to do to help save the world, would be to silence your mind and immerse yourself in the divine presence within consistently, completely, once and for all, and that that would be the greatest gift you give to the universe and to yourself, would you do it?  Because that is the offer that God has been making for thousands of years…  it i...

Student Question:  How is one able to realize when he/she is having access to archetypal knowledge?