December 2016

I have seen all your videos on YouTube! What shall I do to be free? I have so many questions.

Question:

Nukunu:

Keep company with awakened teachers – that is the most direct way. I just meet an old Indian man here and he told me that his teacher had received “Jana Diksha” from Rnamana Maharshi the last moment before Ramana died. Ramana opened his eyes for the last time and looked at his disciple and the disciple “got it” immediately. “Jana” means the truth and “diksha” can be translated as blessing. Actually Ramana was not really “giving” the disciple anything. No, the truth is that Ramana was just a mirror for the same truth that was already present in the disciple. If a disciple is ready to recognize the truth, it can happen in one single moment. But nobody can give or take anything from us.

Because of ignorance, there are so many misunderstandings about the guru-disciple relationship. For example, if you meet someone who is sad you might experience sadness yourself. What is happening? Sadness is rising in you because the other person is a mirror for the feeling of sadness which is already present in you. On the other hand, if you are a person who has not experienced much sadness in life and do not have so much of it inside, you may not really feel the other person’s sadness. So my point is that the other person don´t “put” sadness into us. Still, this is what we believe when we say “ah you make me so sad!” in a blaming way. But this is not the case! The truth is that the other person becomes a mirror for the sadness in us; and then we blame the mirror! How ridiculous. This ignorant behavior is called “projecting”!

If we meet an awakened person he or she is a mirror for the same space in us. But 99.99 percent of humanity has moved far away from that in themselves. They are totally identified with the ego-personality, so they will not recognize the mirroring! They will see the teacher’s space of presence as something different from themselves. Maybe there will be admiration, but that will not help a disciple to wake up. Admiration creates separation and duality.

All our questions disappear when we realize that there actually is no separated “me” to ask questions. We realize a space that is both the question and the questioner! This is experienced as oneness with everything.

Go inwards and meditate. As your longing becomes deeper you will be taken to the point where you can awaken.

I have seen all your videos on YouTube! What shall I do to be free? I have so many questions.

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Do you believe that the world was created?

What is the relationship between the body and who we are?

Is it really true that I am creating the world?

How do I overcome impatience and restlessness?

How do you know that you are enlightened?

What is the nature of enlightenment?

What is the biggest challenge to wake up?

Why are so few people waking up?

Is meditation just about closing our eyes and trying to achieve a blissful state?

Could you say something about the feeling of “oneness”?

Is there any free will, Nukunu?

When you are awakened, how is it to experience that you are not the body?

What is witnessing?

When I read the literature of the Mystics they write again and again that “everything is God”. Can you explain this?

What is the difference between a real Guru and a spiritual teacher?

How is it to grow old when you have awakened?

Can you talk about Maya? I don't really know what it means.

Can you say what the name “God” means to you?

Could you say something about God, Nukunu?

Why are so few people interested in awakening and enlightenment?

What is the Ego, Nukunu?

How do I stop fighting my mind?

What is the difference between “Truth” in Buddhism, “Brahman” in Advaita Vedanta and “God” in the traditions that use this concept?

Can you talk about what we experience upon awakening?

Some people are talking about stages of enlightenment. Is this the right way of looking at it?

People meditate in order to become enlightened. Is this enough? Or do we need something more?

I often hear you say “we live in a very low culture”. What do you mean?

How can I know if there is more to life than I can see right now?

Could you comment on the Buddhist saying: “What you find here you will find there”?

I have seen all your videos on YouTube! What shall I do to be free? I have so many questions.

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What is an easy way to know oneself Nukunu?

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Could you talk about effortlessness?

What is compassion? What is forgivingness?

What is happiness?

What does it take to wake up?

How is it to live in this clarity? I think I do but I am not sure?

What is the paradise all religions talk about?