January 3, 2022 Hello Satang Friends, and Happy New Year 2022! I’ve missed seeing you the last two years for our monthly gatherings 🙂 I hope you are well. I need your feedback about our monthly gatherings so we may plan for 2022. Below is what feels right and what I am offering. If others of our group wish to host, please let it be known! I feel we will be safe to resume our …
All Saturday Satsangs are cancelled for 2021. We will update this site in January about our gatherings for 2022. Our self-inquiry gatherings are for ardent seekers of Truth. We discuss and explore the nature of what is self-evident, here, now. We expose and grok the illusory nature and appearance of the personal self and rest in the spaciousness of aware presence, just this, here, now. Many of us are searching for relief from the weight …
Do you notice the internal commentary and chatter zipping through your mind? Your head? Most of us do notice this incessant chatter and wish it to be quiet. We meditate and practice yoga or walk to lessen our stress of listening to the constant chatter. We have deep habits of internally commenting, critiquing, judging every thought stream, every moment, according to our preferences, emotions, opinions and desires. We begin to see the thought stream is …
“If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being man or woman, or even human should be discarded. The ocean of life contains all, not only humans. So, first of all abandon all self-identification, stop thinking of yourself as such-and-such or so-and-so, this or that. Abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon …
We’re conditioned to perceive life/reality as unfolding inside or outside a person/body. This caged way of perceiving life is held by the vast majority of humans and is the root of all emotional and psychological suffering. It’s been said by many folks, many times…with our thoughts we create our world. This is how the brain/mind works…conceptualizing, rationalizing, and objectifying what is perceived…and this is how we are programmed and trapped in the mind’s naming, claiming, and labeling …
Nondual philosophy slowly migrated to the United States as the foundational teachings of many ancient Eastern spiritual practices for perceiving and experiencing a peaceful life. This fundamental foundation includes the teachings of Zen, Tao, Vedanta, and Sufism, along with the mystical Christian teachings of Jesus the Christ, St. John of the Cross, Meister Eckhart, St. Teresa of Avila, as well as the Perennial Wisdom literature and teachings. These ancient philosophies of “not two” point towards …
This life appears so real and tangible when we believe “we” are a subject, a separate self, observing or seeing what is appearing as “other” or objects. There is no separation between “what is seeing” and “what is appearing to be seen” unless you are claiming and living as an imaginary personal or separate self. You’ve never been separate, distinct, and tangible. Notice the brain/mind rise up and strongly protest these words. Of course, this …
