There is no Truth - 05.13.10

Student Question: In my experience, I’ve seen that one can interpret a situation in many different ways, and sometimes it seems that I can interpret a situation in an infinite number of ways. Is that freedom, or is that still part of the ego?

“No, freedom is when you don’t bother interpreting it anymore,” remarks Shunyamurti the spiritual director of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. “All discourses are false. All interpretations are wrong because every concept, if you look at it deep enough, it flows into the other. Good and evil are the same. Every philosopher who has reached Ultimate Reality recognizes that: form is emptiness. Good is bad even. . . . All of these distinctions we make are part of duality. And so any discourse that you create is always leaving out a shadow that is its opposite that is actually embedded in it; it is its own essence.” “So the truth is that there is no . . . Truth?” “There is no Truth—but don’t take that as a truth!” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, May 13, 2010.