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For those who long for deep spiritual awakening...
Meeting in Truth
So often we go through life feeling like we just don’t really fit in or believing that there is something fundamentally wrong with us. Perhaps we have a sense of something beyond this ‘mundane’ world, but we can not find a way to live and experience that. We grasp for help in any way that we can, in order to survive and live with the pain of feeling separate and alone. Perhaps we try to find what we are looking for in spiritual practices, or perhaps we try to find it in our relationships or work. But whatever we may find, only gives us temporary satisfaction or relief, and then again the same sense of pain and separation comes back and endlessly drives us to search for something more. We long for rest. We long for real peace, wholeness, freedom and love.
Meeting with Unmani is meeting with yourself in the most real and alive way. It is not about having yet another spiritual experience that comes and then sadly goes. It is not about any temporary experience that you can claim as your own special spiritual state. But instead it is about truly enquiring into what is really going on here in this life: What is your deepest longing? What do you really know, when you don’t just assume that your thoughts are true? Who are you really? What are you really afraid of? What is wrong with right now just the way it is? When you don’t hold onto any beliefs that you have read or been taught by others, what do you have left to hold onto?
Unmani welcomes you
This most fundamental and intimate enquiry cuts through all philosophies and belief systems, and is about truly facing your deepest fears, no longer blindly buying into dreamy hopes, and is about waking up to the reality of life.
Life may not always fit into your ideas of how it ‘should’ be. It may not always feel comfortable. But there comes a point when you are just so tired of chasing temporary experiences of peace and love, and hoping for a perfect future ‘one day’. There comes a point when you acknowledge that your deepest longing is to wake up to reality no matter what.
There comes a point when it is time to risk losing it all, and to courageously take a step into the unknown.
About Unmani
Unmani is originally from the UK, but has lived a nomadic life in many countries around the world from the age of 18. Since Unmani was a child, she has never identified with being a separate individual, and always felt deeply at one with life. But as her environment did not reflect this Oneness, she felt lost and alone, as if she had been dropped on an alien planet. Truth was always her only passion and reason for living. She spent years traveling around the world in search of the truth. Eventually Unmani’s wake up call was answered when she met the Zen master, Dolano. Unmani finally woke up out of self-doubt and confusion, and acknowledged her true nature as that same Oneness that she had always known since she was a child. The years following this awakening were spent with various other teachers as this realisation was integrated more and more into her life.
In 2013 Unmani met her husband, the wonderful musician, and courageous lover of life, Robert Hanuman. In 2015 their son, Sky, was born. For Unmani, becoming a mother, continues to be an endless awakening to this very human life.
On 3rd January 2018, Robert Hanuman died suddenly from a heart attack while they were in India.
This has been, and continues to be, a heartbreaking loss for Unmani and Sky. Robert Hanuman’s presence deeply influenced Unmani’s teaching, and in the time they were together the teaching evolved into a more human expression of the courage to live the paradox of the Absolute, living as this human. Robert put Unmani’s words to his beautiful classical guitar music and Unmani still plays his songs at her meetings.
Unmani has been holding meetings and retreats all over the world for since 2003, and in this time people have been deeply touched by her work: She meets each person exactly where they are at, and in whatever they need at the time, while at the same time holding them in the truth of who they really are beyond it all. This combination, and paradox, of the personal and impersonal, brings so much depth, openness and healing to people’s lives. They wake up to who they really are, and discover how this is lived and integrated into their daily lives.
"The love of truth has to be stronger than the desire to be free of pain and discomfort."
People Who Have Particularly Inspired Unmani
(Although there have been, and continue to be, so many more less well-known wise people who have inspired Unmani)
The Love of Truth
The love of truth has to be stronger than the desire to be free of pain and discomfort. Otherwise you will go from spiritual method, to therapy to healing, from teacher to teacher, never really getting the point. Of course it is natural to desire to be free from suffering, but if that is your main focus, then this becomes an endless chasing of a dream, and running from what is present. No matter how good the teacher or practice, if you do not really have a love for truth, then you will be distracted by temporary experiences of relief that come and then go, and then leave you in an even worse state than you were before. The passion for the truth is the willingness to trade in every experience, no matter how blissful, peaceful or transcendental, for the Truth. It is such a longing for what is permanent, rather than the exhausting chasing what comes and goes.
The love of the truth is like a fire that burns in you, and will endlessly burn whatever is false. Once this fire of truth starts to burn in you, it takes over.
What is a Teacher?
The teacher is an aspect of yourself that you are using to point yourself home to yourself. The teacher is not separate from you. In fact, truly there is no teacher and student, and no relationship at all. This ‘relationship’ is unlike any other relationship. It is not based in any power struggle or dependency. It is simply absolute love and trust. You see yourself in the teacher and know that whatever they do, or say is an expression of yourself pointing to yourself. This does not make the teacher super-human, divine, or beyond faults, but when you find a teacher who is most deeply in love with the truth in themselves, then you know that their deepest love is for the truth in you also. Then all their intentions, although fed through their naturally flawed humanity, will carry that love of truth and reflect that back to you.
"The love of the truth is like a fire that burns in you, and will endlessly burn whatever is false."
Music by Robert Hanuman
Robert Hanuman was Unmani’s husband, friend, life-partner, father of her son Sky, and love of her life. He was a very talented musician who put Unmani’s words to music.
Robert traveled around the world with Unmani and their son Sky, always with his guitar on his back. He would play a song or two at the end of every meeting with Unmani. The music always took people into a deeper, more heart-felt, recognition of what Unmani was pointing to. People loved him and his music, and were so touched by how he held the space of the meetings with his energetic warm presence.
On 1st January 2018 he released his album ‘Let it All Fall Apart’, and then on 3rd January 2018 he died from a heart attack. Robert has left a legacy of his deep love and wisdom, as well as so much beautiful music. This first album was just some of this music. At some point in the future we will most likely produce another album of un-produced music that he was saving for his next album. Unmani continues to play Robert’s music in her meetings. His presence continues to be felt wherever she goes.
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