In the sense of Dharma with a capital D, this teaching points to a life devoted to timeless principles of impeccable integrity, lived in harmony with Nature and our Supernatural Source. Used without capitalization, dharma refers to wholehearted participation in a community’s processes, protocols, and chain of command, carried out with the “Haji! Spirit” — the willingness to go the extra mile and work beyond the expected when needed, as an unconditional surrender to Love.
Brahmachari:
A Brahmachari is one whose awareness has merged with Brahman, the Absolute, and who has therefore been freed from desire, fear, attachment, and material reference points. Such a person naturally embodies celibacy, simplicity, and inner solitude.
Satsang:
These are meditative gatherings where the highest teachings are shared. Shunyamurti also provides guidance in question-and-answer format, helping to address the most subtle and difficult matters of the heart.
Teleological:
This refers to information, energy, or nonlinear change that appears as the effect of future events influencing the past, and is experienced in the present as extraordinary phenomena, synchronicities, unpredictable emergent qualities, or other striking manifestations. The source of such forces may also exist beyond chronological time, in higher dimensions of the Real.
The process of non-process:
Because awakening is instant, and comes with the recognition that one was never truly trapped in the dream but participating in its creation, any attempt to turn awakening into a process is itself part of the dream and has nothing to do with Awakening.
The Real:
When speaking of the Real, unless otherwise specified, this means the Supreme Real. The Supreme Real does not appear; appearance is not Real. Everything that appears is empty of true existence. There are no real things. All phenomena are temporary, dependent, and reducible to a wave function of consciousness. The world does not exist independently of consciousness. There is no matter or material world. All is consciousness. Pure consciousness is Presence: no-thing, non-objective, beyond space and time. Everything that appears in Presence, or to Presence, is an emanation of Presence, yet not different from It. This is one meaning of nonduality.
The Real is also a term used in Lacanian psychoanalysis. In that context, the Real is the aspect of phenomenal appearance that is overwhelming, traumatic, or impossible. This would be called Real One: a relative Real, not the Absolute. There is also a Real Two, which consists of divine love. Love is not an appearance, yet it transforms appearance, through recognition of its Source, into a divine manifestation — a projection of God’s sublimely beautiful Mind as an infinite fractal holographic cosmos. Real Three is the unchanging Absolute, beyond all conception or image.