
Understanding an Essential Secret of the Siddhas
What Is Here, Is Everywhere by Mark Griffin is a Tantra teaching on nondual realization, Guru transmission, and awakening through the subtle body’s direct recognition of consciousness.
Duration: 1:08:55 / 18 Pages
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"Nothing can come into existence, even the absolute void of existence, without being connected to everything else. There is not and has never has been a second thing. This is what the Siddhas discovered, this is what the sages discovered."
Meditation Master Mark Griffin
In What Is Here, Is Everywhere, a Guru Purnima intensive, Mark Griffin articulates one of the most direct realizations of the Siddha Yoga Tantra: what is here is everywhere; what is not here is nowhere. This statement expresses a radical nondual thesis—there has never been a second thing. All phenomena, including emptiness and void, are already present within the field of immediate awareness.
Griffin grounds this realization within the subtle architecture of the human form. The sushumna is described as a living antenna of consciousness, conducting awareness from the base of embodiment into the supra-temporal expanse above the crown. At the brahmarandhra, a triangular vajra-like structure functions as an interface between conditioned cognition and the timeless domain of pure consciousness.
Within this framework, Shaktipat is presented as a catalytic activation rather than a transmission of something new. The role of the Guru is to awaken an already-present capacity—to “switch on” the inner instrument through which recognition occurs. Once activated, the Guru principle becomes an internal force that reveals how the apparent world is a dynamic expression of emptiness, while the invisible source is the ground of all existence. Even a moment of direct recognition can dissolve vast accumulations of karmic misperception, because truth acts with causal immediacy.
The teaching then moves into lived integration. Griffin explores how joy and love underlie all action, yet become distorted through karmic conditioning—whether through personal history, intentionless action, or the influence of others’ intentions. Spiritual maturity becomes a matter of skillful means: perceiving life through the sequence of ideal, intent, and action; cultivating neutrality and balance; and relinquishing attachment to outcomes by offering all results into the divine continuum.
Ultimately, the teaching returns to its central revelation: the Guru is not elsewhere. The Guru is intrinsic to the human form as a functional principle of awakening. When this gateway is recognized and stabilized, all levels of consciousness begin to integrate, accelerating the path toward realization. Love and joy are discovered not as external attainments but as the natural radiance of awareness recognizing itself.