Spiritual life is not always spiritual. Like the lotus it grows in the mud of samsara. This satsang took place over the course of about a year. Cathy had been on the fringes of the spiritual world for years and was familiar with various approaches, but her life was not working. She was encouraged to contact me by her husband, a long time seeker who had recently been awakened by the teachings of Vedanta, and this dialog began. It illustrates the truth that persistence furthers. She had no idea what Self Inquiry was when she began and her path was far from elegant and easy, but she gets there in the end. Please read the satsangs in order as they enumerate the hurdles that we all face as we come to understand what spiritual life is.
(a) A Messy Miserable Relationship
(b) The Power of Lust
(c) This Relationship is Too Much. I Quit.
(d) Washing God's Dishes
(e) I'm a Troublemaker
(f) Your Lover John is Only in Your Mind
(g) That Bimbo Bitch is You
(h) Love not Sex is the Real Issue
(i) Sex or Spirituality
(j) A Vasana is Not a Command
(k) Project an Aura of Love
(l) Aloneness is not Loneliness
(m) The Aloneness of Awareness
(n) Redirect Your Attention to the Self
(o) Use a Symbol to Convert Emotions
(p) Actionless Awareness
(q) Chase Money or Accumulate Merit
(r) Am I an Individual or am I Limitless
(s) The Lowdown on Vasanas
(t) The Self Shining Through
(u) Can I Keep My Relationship and Still Rely on Consciousness?
(v) Two Selves
(w) Life is Great But it Isn't
