Wisdom Teachings - Sat Yoga, Costa Rica

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 en

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?

Student Question:  If the body dies and you don’t achieve liberation, is it possible that the soul may still achieve liberation without the body?

Student Question:  In English we use the terms like “she’s got it,” or “they want to have it,” or “someone wants to be it,” but always using the word “it.”  When I have tried to translate it into Spanish, there is no way just to say “it.”  It makes me wonder, what is the real etymology of the word “it?”  I mean is “it” ultimately like “that?”  God: is that what “it” is?

Student Question:  How is it possible that people who have had out of body experiences and experiences from other lives still identify with the body if they know that this is not what they are?

Student Question:  In your teaching you said that consciousness is bound to the ego, and I was wondering how that works?

Student Question:  Why is it that there are people like monks who are living in Monasteries who have committed their lives to a path but have not achieved liberation?

Student Question:  Can you talk about autistic people and what has happened with them internally and what their experience is like?

Student Question:  What is phobia?

Student Question:  What is the purpose and function of illusion?

Excerpt:  “It is said that there are many paths.  It is also said there are no paths. And it is also said that there is only one disguised as many…  And here we teach what has historically been considered the most direct understanding of Self-realization and liberation…  Liberation from suffering and that means liberation from illusion….  And so to say that a path is the most direct path is to say that you are not going through any indirect intellectual concepts or belief systems or practices that require you to believe that there is someone who is trying to achieve something because that is already the illusion that we are trying to break free of….  And so if you carry that further you come to the recognition that all concepts are false because they are indirect representations of what is, rather than simply being what is….  What is, is Emptiness….  There is an awareness, if you want to call it that, or consciousness that is prior to all the objects that appear in consciousness, because no objects

Student Question:  Can you define self-esteem?

Student Question:  You said tonight that it in meditation it doesn't really matter if you do not experience something amazing and the truth is that I have never experienced anything like that.  All I can say is that I feel better and I am not even interested in putting it into words how I feel better, but sometimes a question does arise - How do I know that I am growing?