The Torn Page

Shunyamurti begins by saying that God gifts all treasures to those who yearn, then explains that many people begin to conceive of God as the third person (He/She), working through to the second person (Thou) when the relationship has deepened, finally realizing God in the first person (I Am/the Self), he then speaks about how God can only be known via the heart, through love, but egos are as agnostic about love as they are about God because of past experiences and traumas, but that love is the only answer and alone will bring us peace/stability, saying that love is the portal to the Absolute, that when there is love there is no need for techniques, and that the heart must be purified.

Having screened The Big Lebowski the previous evening, Shunyamurti analyzes the famous line, “The Dude Abides”, and contextualizes the place of the Dude on the spectrum of consciousness, noting that the puer aeternus (the psychological position of staying an immature "eternal child" and refusing to grow up or take responsibility), embodied in past cultural icons such as The Little Prince, has become the Big Lebowski, and encourages us to abide as the Supreme Dude, rather than the Dude portrayed in the Cohen brothers' movie.

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Shunyamurti discusses esoteric paths and exoteric paths (that begin from an ego perspective), saying that seeking creates more seeking, then proceeds to explain the three Reals and how they correspond to Tibetan Buddhism (Dharma Kaya, Sambhoga Kaya, and Nirmana Kaya), also speaking about love and chakra two, and, of course, recommending the movement to Real 3.

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Excerpt: "And as more and more lights are lit in this cosmic menorah, in which each of us is an eternal candle, flaming its beauty and its divine light to the world, we create a light that cannot be extinguished, and that cannot be improved, and whose silent shining is the eternal living symbol of the presence of God, who never withdraws."

Shunyamurti begins by wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, explaining the connection between Christmas and the Amanita Muscaria mushroom that was used to help the uninitiated reach higher altered states of consciousness, which made holy days, then goes on to explain the spectrum/levels of consciousness, and speak on many other topics, such as death and rebirth, the fall of religions, and the universality of Christianity for all religions.

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Shunyamurti begins by asking the difference between a spiritual seeker and a spiritual finder, saying that the seeker has a human sized ego and the finder has a cosmic ego, and he goes on to elucidate the concept of Nothing, then goes into a metaphor of a car on a journey (ego = tires, soul = GPS, Atman = Driver), and says that the ego is terrified that Liberation from the matrix will be the end of jouissance, then speaking about the difference between individual mind and Mind (as infinite consciousness without thoughts—that Thinks!), and concluding on the role of art, as well as the pop songs that get stuck in our (small) mind.

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Shunyamurti begins by speaking about the ego's main fear of being overwhelmed, discussing how this manifests at each of the lower chakras, he then goes on to discuss the formula: God = Knowledge, and that knowledge = information & intelligence, and how we get information from each of the three Reals, finally discussing the ego's defense against this by either pseudo-love or pseudo-hate, and the relationship among egos at this level.

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Shunyamurti opens the teaching by saying that Abhyas (Practice) invites Anugraha (Grace), he then goes on to discuss the sin of labeling, the implications for oneself and for others, and how this creates the illusion of an ego, an other, and a world, and how we live in a world without labels.

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Shunyamurti reveals that the sign of an old soul is having a broken heart. There is an anguish that one wishes to heal, but the heartbreak is a terminal wound, and the ego won't accept what is present—the loving embrace of God. The ego must be killed, and the presence of God is the only thing that will fill the heart, but the ego has cut off love because of the wounding, and in surrender and silence the divine heart can begin to speak.

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