Spiritual Teachings With Shunyamurti

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?

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?

Excerpt: “So the good news is that we don’t have to wait until we leave the body to attain liberation, we can do it here and now….So it is important to recognize that what we mean by the self and by self inquiry, is not seeking an image or a concept of the self; not seeking an object of any kind…but leaving behind all levels of objectification and conceptualization....And what we discover when the mind has been completely stilled and emptied of thought and emptied of the continuing flow of images and the flow of memories or the flow of emotions. When you have attained the witness state in which there is simply purified silent awareness….And so there is within each of you that core of being that is deathless and birthless and that cannot be given a form…” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, August 4, 2011.

Student Question: During the retreat you taught about the five obstacles which the Bhagavad Gita speaks of but specifically regarding the fifth one, Ahankar. One translation of that is self- centeredness. What recommendations could you give to towards healing this obstacle?