The Torn Page

Student Question:  I was wondering what your opinion is about travel?  I know that travel can be a very rewarding experience and not just another way to spend time, but what do you think?

Student Question:  We were talking about the breast as a symbol, and I was wondering if that relates back down to food as well?

Student Question:  During our discussion on masters discourse tonight someone bought up the point that as the head of his family he has children who expect to be told what to do and to be given guidance.  How does someone who finds himself in that role avoid getting into master’s discourse?

Excerpt:  “What is being taught in Sat Yoga, and what has been taught since the beginning of time, is to perceive things as they are...  to perceive reality as it is...  and this means to perceive from the place of truth...  the place within that is free of illusion - free of projection - free of distortion - free of any filters that create an inability or a block or an obstacle to realizing what is….   And what the sages teach from out of that pure realization of the self is that it is an illusion that there are entities.  This is not a world made up of a bunch of separate entities, but that a single intelligence and a single real and a single truth - a single being....  Supreme Being expresses its nature in the reflection of the nature that is this phenomenal plane that we call the universe….  We meditate in order to get in touch with that highest level of truth, so that we can perceive free of all the filters which are the cause of our suffering....  The illusion of being a separate entity in a world of entities that is always therefore in power struggles and in envy and comparison and disdain, or putting some on alters and throwing others off of alters and feeling like one ultimately is the judge of all of those other entities even if one feels inferior them….  And liberation is simply liberation from these narratives that peg you into some false entityhood and don’t allow the expansion into the infinite... consciousness that you are and therefore instead of bliss there is some kind of suffering….”  Recorded on the evening of Thursday, March 15, 2012

Student Question:  When you are in a state of pure silence and you have to do activities in your life, how can you communicate in language without thinking and breaking the silence?

Student Question:  Can old languages like Sanskrit for example be archetypes?

Student Question:  I see that there is a lot of reading and study groups offered at the school and I was wondering how that’s fits in with the practice of silencing the mind?

Student Question:  Is the Law of Attraction just another way to explain illusion?

Student Question:  What is the relationship between thinking and knowledge and or wisdom?

Student Question:  Here at Sat Yoga we focus on silencing the mind.  In some other traditions they talk about the heart and opening the heart.  Is there a difference between these approaches?