Spiritual Teachings With Shunyamurti

Shunyamurti addresses a question that is asked time and time again, "How do I do it? How does one reach Liberation?" He answers by read excerpts from Muruganur's "The Shining of My Lord", a collection of poem and aphorisms about the process of attaining Self-Realization written by a student of Sri Ramana Maharshi.

Shunyamurti lays down a foundational understanding of the path of the Sat Yoga, explaining several of the different paths that lead to the same goal: the Silence of Sat Chit Ananda.

Shunyamurti invites us to ruminate on the Real Self—with devotion, divine love, and nonduality—the work and play of Self-realization that brings healing and joy.

Shunyamurti begins this powerful teaching with a question: Where do you wish to abide for eternity? The moment has arrived to choose your destiny.

Shunyamurti addresses the question of the reality of God and the importance of cultivating an authentic relationship to God that is both personal and impersonal--in order to realize that God, the Self, is the only true Reality.

Shunyamurti offers insight into the maps and modules of reality, helping us to understand that divine intelligence is the source of this dream reality. Now is the moment to awaken to that intelligence that is our own consciousness, to be the solution we are seeking, so we can re-dream this world that is in danger of extinction.

Shunyamurti offers advice on the Tao of speaking with others, a four-level exploration of where Zhuangzi meets Lacan(zi), called: The 4 Te Tiscourses.

Shunyamurti speaks about the concept of the “game changer” and how it applies to the spiritual path. The ego, like a machine, is controlled by drives that are destined to fail, and the only way to "change the game" and have the chance to succeed is with Love, and that’s just the beginning…

Shunyamurti speaks to transcending trauma through an alchemical process: Face the dark shadow energy and bring it to light through the healing power of love, allowing the wounded ego to die in the fire of transformation, and the true healer to be reborn.

In this beautiful morning teaching, Shunyamurti explains how we are living in two dimensions simultaneously - the relative and the Absolute - and that now is the moment to use our intelligence and free will to choose the highest reality, Liberation over illusion, in order to bring the light of the Real to the dark dimension of the unreal.

Shunyamurti guides this short meditation to accelerate a shift into higher consciousness; relax into your center, let go of thought, be present without intention, and discover a state of inner silence in which it becomes possible to attune to the highest vibrational frequency of consciousness.

In this excerpt from a White Magic retreat teaching, Shunyamurti shares the wisdom of the Orphic mystery schools, using the examples of magic, muses and divine madness to help us to understand the journey from ego self to archetypal self, and the soul's capacity for redemption by raising its vibrational level of consciousness.

Shunyamurti addresses the big picture, giving an overarching context for the current state of the world and the transformational imperative to rise in consciousness. He connects the dots on what is necessary to awaken the world: to reconnect to the Absolute. This teaching was given on March 20, 2021, as part of the Re:Union Summit. If you would like to access the wealth of knowledge on current events and solution-focused interviews with over 45 speakers, we invite you to find out more by visiting the website: https://2021.reunionsummit.com/shunyamurti

Healing is the result of three elements: Power, Truth, and Love. In this teaching, Shunyamurti helps us understand how to attain complete healing through the understanding that everything one perceives is a projection, and that both the good and bad must be retracted to return to wholeness.

In answer to the quintessential question of all seekers--why can we not reach silence in practice,and find freedom if this is our essence?--Shunyamurti combines Ramana's teaching on Chit Jada Granthi with Lacan's Borromean Knot to create a new kundalini map of consciousness to help us transcend the knot of suffering, and ascend from the trauma of the unreal to the bliss of the Real.

In this teaching, Shunyamurti describes meditation as an art and a science, a means of shifting consciousness into higher dimensions where one is able to go beyond "normal", beyond signifiers, and into a core "imperience" of realization that reveals the real meaning of Truth.

In this beautiful morning teaching, Shunyamurti explains that the Sat Yoga vow of santosha, contentment, is the basis for Grace, of which there are three forms: Shaktipat, anugraha, and prasad, all of which assist in the termination of the simulation - the dissolution into infinite consciousness.

On the night of Maha Shiva Ratri, Shunyamurti invites us to celebrate the revelation of Truth while the window of opportunity is open to attain the Absolute, on the holiest night of the year, when Shiva descends to offer grace. To help with this ascension, Shunyamurti outlines the 7 stages yogis must accomplish to blast off in Shiva's rocket ship and merge into the Supreme Sun. Discover the 7 Stages on the full video on our Members Section.

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 matrix of misunderstanding.

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 learning to comprehend one's own Mind, the particularity will dissolve into totality, and all will return to the liberated ocean of consciousness.

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 Real.

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!

Shunyamurti explains “The 73 Axes of Axiology” (or “The Dao of Complete Capitalism”), exploring the history and devolution of the concept of value, and reveals the only value that is eternal and does not diminish.

Shunyamurti explains that nonduality, direct realization are very difficult for the ego to grasp, mentioning Kali Yuga, and, from the work of Giorgio Agamben, that spirituality is in a state of exception, then goes on to speak of the distinction between Zoe and Bios, and the implications of the social alienation created by the response to Covid-19.