Enjoy a 3-Course Meal of Consciousness!
The maitre d’ suggests you start with the Dionysian appetizer. But, if the hot peppers go to your head, we can offer a quick decapitation and then a full recap with higher consciousness and a sweet Apollonian dessert. However, these days most customers prefer to end their beggars’ banquet with our devilish hot sauce. What kind of spirits would you like?
Related Teachings
How to Get Out of the Trap of the Ego's Core Delusion
The world is in a state of full system collapse. If we want to remain in a state of peace and navigate with accuracy and freedom, we must prepare psychospiritually. Shunyamurti presents M. C. Escher's lithograph "Drawing Hands” as best representing the logical trap of the ego's core delusion and why the capacity for Self-actualization has been lost. Shunyamurti teaches how we can reclaim our Self-sovereignty and finally be free of the internalized other.
The Ego Lacks Free Will!
In this Q&A, Shunyamurti explores the nature of free will, the illusion of the ego, and the path to realizing the true Self. If the ego has no real agency, what does responsibility mean on the spiritual path? Through dialogue with students, Shunyamurti explains that the ego is a conditioned program; and true freedom arises only when its illusions are dissolved through surrender, meditation, and the silence of the mind. This conversation also touches on a profound paradox: how the unreal world itself becomes the means through which consciousness awakens to the Real. The path of awakening requires the courage to face the death of the ego and to rediscover our birthright as beings of Divine Consciousness.
How the Mind Produces Pleasure—and Limits it!
In this Q&A, Shunyamurti clarifies the paradox of effort and grace, the nature of anxiety and fear, karmic obstacles, and what it truly means to go through “the eye of the needle.”
There Are No Limits to the Possible!
An exploration of the paradoxical paradigm of presence in impermanence (expressed most pithily by the Sixth Patriarch of Chan) leads into a logical analysis of the levels of consciousness, the relationship of the labyrinthine complexity of the ego with the absolute simplicity of the Self, and the lucidity of soul required to sail to the further shore of nonduality.
The Soul’s Surrender Wins the War Against the Ego
The ego’s fantasy is believing it is an entity separate from God; it has no free will, and it cripples the soul’s ability to fully blossom as a divine being and fulfill its potential. But the soul is already free, and the only war and enemy to be fought is with one’s own ego. This is accomplished by letting go of who we think we are and allowing the soul to surrender to the grace of God in divine love. Once this is done, all fear and worldly desire will be eliminated. Why wait to remember the gift of the realization of the Presence of God in your heart, soul, and body?
The Consequences of Complementarity
The cosmos arises from an energy field created by complementary charges, which fractally results in every form of binary. One and Zero, Being and Nothing, are dialectically related, meaning they are convertible terms. All apparent polarities are moving pendularities, meaning everything morphs eventually into its opposite. Enjoyment becomes suffering, the actors become the audience, the end is the beginning. The sacred mountain attracts sages, the sages make the mountain sacred. Dependent origination is also independent self-causation and non-arising waves of information. Systole follows diastole. The heart opens and again closes. The Real is hidden and then revealed. The way to go is just to flow.