Sangha News

Trust is Knocking on the Door

July 21st, 2015

Breath is like a bridge from the physical to the spirit. To breathe, you have to have a body, but the breath is nothing. Breath always happens in the moment and the whole art of meditation is to be in the moment, to be present. When you breathe consciously, then
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The Way of the White Clouds

July 16th, 2015

A white cloud has nowhere to go.  It moves everywhere.  All dimensions belong to it.  All directions belong to it.  Nothing is rejected.  Everything is; existing in total acceptance. The first weeks of the Way of the White Cloud retreat have been intense and energetic. The invitation from our beloved
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Wisdom Heart

June 20th, 2015

Wisdom heart is always there, available. The question is if you are in touch with it or not. Because the whisper of the heart is very silent, so you have to become silent, going beyond your noisy mind. You are here to re-establish your contact  with your true Being. This is
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The Man of the Mountains

January 19th, 2015

Sitting silently, doing nothing, Spring comes and the grass grows by itself. Zen saying We could sit here forever… When we have tasted this precious silence, this depth within us, this peace beneath the waves, why would we want to stop? Falling in tune with our Master, his presence is
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Zen Snow – Zen Fire

January 10th, 2015

I really have nothing to talk about.  There is nothing to be said, because the truth cannot be said. But in some mysterious way, the truth also comes through words – if the source is silence. Normally, the words come from the mind, which is noise.  Then there is always
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Surprise Satsang

September 18th, 2014

What a blessing! Our Beloved invites us to Satsang in the middle of the day, in the middle of a week! Suddenly, we all find ourselves sitting under the open sky, in the silence of nature, at the feet of our Beloved. Silently, we recognize that this surprise Satsang is yet another way our
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Spirit of Freedom

September 2nd, 2014

Freedom is, it doesn’t come and go. Silence is, it doesn’t come and go. Love is, it doesn’t come and go. Never born, never died – When you connect to that it is always there. Freedom is our true nature, but we put ourselves into cages of our own making. How can
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Drunk on Love

August 7th, 2014

Because the wine is from your cup, I’ve become a drunkard. These are the words of Rumi. You are very fortunate for understanding what he is talking about. Very few people do. Vasant Swaha Our Beloved is answering a fellow traveller on this journey towards our true self, the heart, Love itself.
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Gate, gate, paragate…

July 31st, 2014

In all the buddha statues, the eyes are closed. Why? Because he doesn’t want to get lost; he had enough of the world. He wants to find himself. Not only find himself, but to enjoy his inner being. He wants to be settled in the heart. That is meditation. Vasant
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