What is a Sangha? Only when all the members of a community are attuned to the Presence of the Supreme Intelligence will the superorganismic unity and harmony fully manifest and a true Sangha Buddha light up the planetary morphogenic field—so that every sentient being gets connected to our ultimate Source. This is the purpose of a Sat Sangha.
By Hanuman | This month we regrouped with our annual Rainy Month Retreat. There were more opportunities for formal meditation sittings and deep reflection.
Ultimate reality is closer than the present moment and never becomes past or future. To perceive this Truth is already to be liberated and forever free. But the timebound mind, which veils the Real, must be dropped so that all is revealed and transcended.
All the thoughts of the ego mind are based in dualistic misunderstanding. Therefore, the ego becomes habitually prone to producing thoughts of self-judgment and judgments of others. One puts oneself into the bondage of enmeshment with the unreal world. With one stroke of the Sword of Truth, we can be free of all such delusions, which are the primary cause of suffering.
On the day of this teaching, the Hindu holiday of the destruction of Hell was being celebrated. The metaphysical logic of how the Hell realm was originally constructed and how it is now being destroyed is explained in this seminar lecture.
Karma can best be understood as a teleological operation of the Infinite Mind to assure the ultimate attainment of Self-realization by every individual finite consciousness. Suffering is projected into the physical vehicle because keeping it in the mind is unbearable. Once somatized, the pain can be treated by medical experts. Thus, the underlying meaning of the symptom can remain repressed. But the repressed always returns, and sooner or later, the inner journey to Truth must be made.
The Buddha Mind loves paradox. Once you are energized by the recognition that the world is Nirvana, and that Nirvana is not other than the apparent world, all the predispositions of the linear mind that produce the bondage of reification drop away spontaneously. In the revelation of the Self as naked Presence, all is perceived as miraculous and awesomely beautiful. Attainment of Liberation is the result of dropping all fear and desire, all thought constructs, and all judgments.
The ego fabricates an imaginary world of good guys and bad guys, a paranoid narrative that can only perceive its own fear-based projections. But at a higher level of consciousness, beyond the subject-object dualistic frame of reference, once one is free of identification with thoughts and emotions, the true nature of reality reveals itself—accompanied by joy, love, and luminous clarity.
Today, many people are functioning as hungry ghosts. And many are paralyzed spiritually by feelings of disgust and shame about their self-images, histories, and modes of self-presentation. In this context, Shunyamurti retells a story originally told by Acharya Sthaneshwar Timalsina about his meeting with an Aghori guru—and explores the implications of the extreme lifestyles and practices of those pariah yogis with amazing powers. Through this analysis, we learn how to raise our consciousness to new symbolic heights and then pass beyond the mind to the Supreme Real. This enables the liberated Self to emerge.
By Hanuman | We celebrate the recognition that we’ve been able to implement many of the strategies and decisions made in our yearly planning meeting held earlier this year.
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One whose consciousness has merged with Brahman, the Absolute, and thus has been liberated from all desire, fear, attachment, and material frames of reference. Thus, a Brahmachari naturally lives a life of celibacy, simplicity, and inner solitude.
Meditative meetings in which the highest teachings are shared. Shunyamurti also offers guidance during questions and answers to resolve the most difficult and delicate matters of the heart.
Information, energy, or nonlinear change that occurs as the effect of events that take place in the future and alter the past, which is perceived in the present as non-ordinary phenomena, synchronicities, unpredictable emergent properties or other notable explicate arisings. The source of such forces may also lie beyond chronological time, in higher dimensions of the Real.
Since awakening is instantaneous, along with the recognition that one was never really in the dream, but enjoying the creation of the dream, it must be understood that making awakening into a process can only be part of the dream, and has nothing to do with Awakening itself.
When we speak of the Real, unless otherwise qualified, we mean the Supreme Real. The Supreme Real does not appear. Appearance is not Real. All that appears is empty of true existence. There are no real things. All that is phenomenal is temporary, dependent, and reducible to a wave function of consciousness. The world does not exist independent of consciousness. There is no matter or material world. All is made of consciousness. Pure consciousness is Presence. It is no-thing, non-objective, not in space or time. All that appears in Presence, or to Presence, is an emanation of Presence, but is not different from That. This is one meaning of nonduality.
The Real is also a term used in Lacanian psychoanalysis. What Lacan means by the Real is that aspect of phenomenal appearance which is overwhelming, traumatic, or impossible. We would call that Real One. It is a relative Real, not Absolute. We add that there is a Real Two, which consists of divine love. Love is not an appearance, but it changes appearance, through recognition of its Source, into a divine manifestation, a projection of God’s sublimely beautiful Mind as infinite fractal holographic cosmos. Real Three is the unchanging Absolute, beyond all conception or image.
When we use the term Dharma (capitalized), we refer to our dedication to living in accord with the timeless principles of impeccable integrity that keep us in harmony with Nature and our Supernatural Source.
When we use the term without capitalization, we refer to our acceptance of the community’s processes, protocols, and chain of command with the “Haji! Spirit” of going the “extra mile” and working overtime when necessary to make the impossible inevitable, as our unconditional act of surrender to Love.
