Wisdom Teachings - Sat Yoga, Costa Rica

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, unattainable and still, the key to understanding the enigma of who you are. 

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' responsibility to become an agent of healing and peace on this Earth as it undergoes this next series of karmic events - but this is only possible if we have become free and pure by passing through the gates of own transformation with courage, faith, and truthfulness. 

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, peace on Earth, and divine love to all beings everywhere.

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 this world, which is actually a return to the rediscovery of our supernatural resources. By letting go of both the ego and its narrative, one can terminate the simulation and reap the blessing of destruction as one dissolves into the bliss of Self-realization.

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 Programmer within. 

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!