Satsangs

 

These satsangs were written in the last year. They cover all the basic topics related to enlightenment. There are two long satsangs of about fifty pages with two different people spanning the course of many months which illustrate two very different truths. The first, "Am I a Nutty Guru or What?" shows how not to succeed in Self Inquiry. The second, "A Successful Sadhana," shows how to proceed properly. The questioners, whose identities have been carefully effaced, range from entry level to very advanced seekers and a few self realized individuals expressing their gratitude to Vedanta.


A Beautiful Maya Metaphor
Action and Knowledge
Action in Inaction - I am not the Doer

A Life Wasted Trying to be Good
Am I a Nutty Guru or What? (50 pages)
An actor in a Play
Awareness and the Cosmic Sound
Consciousness Doesn't Need Objects to be Known
Conquering Dispassion with Compassion
Dissing Eckhart
Does Awareness have Qualities or Not?
Don't Study Vedanta
Don't Trust your Feelings
Enlightenment is not Experiential Bliss
Emptiness is not Empty

Everyday Samadhi and Deep Sleep
Forget Vedanta
From a Skeptic to a Jnani in No Time
Gender as Unreal as the Stars in the Sky
Get Off Your Miserable Ass and Clean up Your Life
God Won't Save You from What You Want
Great Waves of Love in Vedantaland
He Who Knows Doesn't Say
How to get Enlightened and be in the World
How to Manage Likes and Dislikes in Relationships
I need Confirmation for my Enlightenment
Interview with Non-duality Magazine
Isvara and Software
Knowledge Works
Living Gurus, Dead Gurus and Scripture
Looking for Love in the Wrong Place
My Relationship to 'I amness'
Offer your Hatred to God
Pain Exists but it is not Real
Reincarnation - Reborn as Someone Else
Relationships and Freedom
Samadhi Osho Nisargadatta
Self Knowledge gives Moksa, a Testimonial
Self Knowledge is Love
Self Knowledge is not Memory Based
Self Knowlege Balances the Gunas Automatically
Self Symbols and Devotion
Sex the Gateway to Heaven...or Hell
Spiritual Experience is Only a Waking State Phenomenon
Sri Ram Amazing Siddhi Program
Thanks for Moksa - Vedanta Works
The Lowdown on Sex and Celibacy
To Manipulate or not to Manipulate
Tools to Work on Myself
Transcendence and Non-Duality
Transmit the Self
Two Thoughts to Keep in Mind at all Times
Vedanta is not Theory and Practice
Vedanta, Neo-Advaita, the Real and the Apparent
Vedanta Works - a Testimonial
What was Ramana Doing in that Cave Anyway?
Where is the World?
Who is God?
Why do I Shift from Non-duality to Duality
You are Not an Experiencer
You Reveal Yourself to Yourself
Confusing me and God
Did Gangagi's Mind Stop?

Getting Unstuck from the Meat Tube
Goodbye to the Little Me
Inquiry after Enlightenment
Road to Freedom through Small Self Acceptance

A Successful Sadhana
A Life Wasted Trying to be Good
There is No One Inside
An Interesting Satsang with a Qualified Inquirer
What Kind of Knowledge is Enlightenment?
Risk of Heart Attack
What Causes Awareness to Localize as an Individual? Sharing Shit does not make it Not-Shit
A 400 Pound Man Named Bubba
Criticism, Self esteem and the Doer
The Difference Between Nirvikalpa and Deep Sleep
Vasanas after Enlightenment
A Moral Dilemma
Am I a Speck of Awareness or am I Awareness
Avatars and Pedophelia
Awareness Makes a Breakthrough
Benefits of Awareness Practice
Can an Avatar Violate Dharma?
Can Limitlessness be Known?
Clarity of Purpose
Does Knowing Who You Are Change your life?
Does Stillness Speak?
Ego Destruction by Chaos
End of a Long Journey
Enlightened and Dissatisfied
Enlightened People have Negative Thoughts
Enlightenment a Special Kind of Experience?
Enlightenment Does not Necessarily Make You Wise
How do I know if I am Enlightened?
How Does Non-Duality Feel?
How to Practice Self Inquiry
In Love with Doubt
Karma Yoga or Inquiry?
Liberation and Language
More to Practice than Practice
Neo-Advaita a Third Rate Religion
No Choice but to Pacify the Wayward Mind
No Mind means No World
No Need for Enlightenment
No Permanent Flow, Can't get it Back
Orgasm or Tantric Sex?
Practicing 'I am Awareness'
Seeing Other People's Awareness
Sin Intelligently
Spiritual Practice is 99% Attitude
Teen Age Romance and the Secret of Life
The Darkness is You but You are not the Darkness
What is the Third Eye?
What is Wrong with this Zen Master's Words?
Write off the People you Love if they can't Behave Properly
You are Beyond God
You are the Answer


The following satsangs were added November 1, 2010

A Bear Story
A Clear High State Like a Child
All Seeking is for Love
Back in Freedomland
Back in Time
Being Close to Yourself is What You Want
Direct and Indirect Knowledge
Ego Destruction by Chaos
Emotions Reflect What You Know
Enlightened People Have Negative Thoughts
How the Mind Exists
I Smell a Rat Part 1
I Smell a Rat Part 2
If You Want Love, Go to Match.com
Jnani is a Role Awareness Plays
Life after Death
Looking for Love
Love Problems
Naked Bike Rides
No Need for Enlightenment
Non-Duality is Self Knowledge
Sex a Symbol of the Self
The Burden of Trying Falls Away
The Meditator Who Could not Handle the World
The Shift Everyone is Waiting For
The True Witness and Reflected Awareness
The Woo Woo Stuff
Vedanta Works Knowledge Trumps Meditation
What Does Non-Doership Feel Like?
What is Wrong with this Zen Master's Words?
Why Study Vedanta?
Joy the Near Enemy
What You Experience Exists but It Is Not Real
Nobody is Enlightened
Knowledge and Experience are One
Waving the Light

The following satsangs were added November 28, 2010

A Sense of Timelessness and Eternity
After Enlightenment Big Bucks
Desire Desiring Desire
Dharma is Built-In
Does the Body Create Consciousness?
Dropped Like a Hot Potato
God, Not Awareness, Controls
Gratitude for the Means of Self Knowledge
I live Without Breathing
Inquiry-induced Epiphanies
Mind not the Problem
Only One Man and Only One Woman
Read My Aura
A Numb Mind is the Point
Relationships and Enlightenmentt
Self Knowledge Rearranges Perception
Tears
The Apparent Real Confusion
The Essence of Karma Yoga
The Firefly Stage of Enlightenment
The Great Happiness of the Self
The Lowdown on Reincarnation and Creation
The Power of Vedanta
What to Read First
You are the Ball
What is Knowledge?
What do You Taste Like?
The X is You but You are not the X
Almost Enlightened
Is a Teacher Necessary?
Mind from Matter or Matter from Mind?
A Ramana Quote Deconstructed
Five Verses from the Kena Upanishad Deconstructed
He Realizes He is Realized
How Not to Get Love
How to Change Bad Habits
Moving Backward in My Understanding
Renunciation the Only Way
God's Goodness is Beyond Good and Bad
The Life of a Zero
The Myth of Experiential Enlightenment
What's Right and Wrong with the No-Doer Teaching

The following satsangs were added 12/13/10

Thousands of Ego Deaths to Look Forward To
How Does the Akandhakara Vritti Cause Liberation?
Don't Drop Out
How to Get Out of the Loop
Vedanta is a Great Help
Almost Enlightened
Direct and Indirect Knowledge
The Object Becomes the Subject
Do You Want Ignorance Back?
How Much Control Do I have?