The Shiva Sutras (Teachings)

SHIVA SUTRAS - a Nine Month Teaching Cycle

In 2002 Mark Griffin conducted an in-depth teaching about the Shiva Sutras, reading and commenting on the verses of this profound and ancient text,meeting twice a week every week to go further into the understanding.  This transcript is very lightly edited and presented in its entirety. 
THE TEACHINGS - A SERIES OF KINDLE BOOKS

To study with an enlightened being is a truly rare and special opportunity. Mark Griffin is such an individual and offers a center for engagement in spiritual training, known as the Hard Light Center of Awakening. In the context of weekly meetings and monthly retreats, he gives discourses on the nature of enlightenment, the path to realization and the reality of truth. These talks have been carefully transcribed and lightly edited, and are presented in the Teachings series. For more information, please visit www.hardlight.org.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR - MARK GRIFFIN

Meditation Master Mark Griffin, the founder of Hard Light Center of Awakening, was a student of Swami Muktananda of the Siddha Yoga Lineage who, in turn, was a disciple of Swami Nityananda. Griffin, who teaches in Malibu, CA, exists in states of Nirvikalpa Samadhi and identifies meditation as the core of his teaching.

He presents ancient knowledge of the various strands of Yoga dating back to the Vedas in contemporary terms, both mystical and scientific. As such, his work complements and agrees with many esoteric practices including Taoism, Tantra, Yoga, Shamanism and theoretical physics.

Mark Griffin is a Westerner who was born in the '50s in the Pacific Northwest. His childhood encompassed a usual American middle-class scenario, followed by tumultuous teen and early adult years spent in a very aggressive pursuit of higher knowledge and purpose. Mark's studies in art and music brought him to the San Francisco Bay area where he met his Guru, Swami Muktananda, in 1976.

After six years of full-time immersion in the study of meditation, Mark encountered a milestone of extreme spiritual significance-entrance into an advanced state of consciousness known as Nirvakalpa Samadhi.

Very shortly thereafter, Muktananda died. Great teachers of the Kagyu tradition came to Mark's assistance, and he received continued instruction in maturing and stabilizing his abilities in meditation from Kalu Rinpoche and Chogyam Trungpa.

Mark Griffin founded the Hard Light center of Awakening in 1989, and continues to teach in Los Angeles, California.