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Satsang
Coming Together In the Name of Truth

At the heart of Satsang is the question "Who Am I?"

Who is this Beauty? People tend to close their eyes to this Inner Beauty and on their deathbed they realize they have been asleep most of their lives. That is very sad.

Usually we think or experience ourselves as a separate somebody with a unique physical form, personal history, and identity. Yet, when we deeply explore the question of true identity, we begin to realize that in fact there is no center, no knower, no experiencer, that we can locate anywhere. All that we find is Space, or Stillness. It takes fearlessness to stay in the dimension of Nothing or Space - to live where nothing is known, experienced or identified with. In Stillness nothing can be done or undone. Do you dare to live in a state of: "I am lost, I can do nothing, I don't know anything?" It can be frightening to rest where there is no direction; to stick with the feelings of being lonely and lost where there are no objects to focus on anymore.

Yet, if this feeling of being lost is sustained, you will see yourself fall into the One, the One and Only Emptiness, or Spaciousness, there is. You are reduced to Nothingness itself. Your life won't be "your" life anymore; it will no longer be directed by "you". When this is totally received, the tension of life is replaced by "full" relaxation. Now, Love can take possession of you. What a joy!

When you live your life from this space -- the movement you find yourself doing -- the words you find yourself saying - are born out of Silence, your True Self. I am here to serve that Truth. It is my true joy dancing this eternal dance of Truth: to inspire people to look inside themselves, to discover the Stillness they really are; to inquire into the Beauty that they are, and how they might live it.

A spiritual life is not truly lived until the moment we are fully expressing that Original Energy and Inner Beauty. We do not know how it will be, taste, smell, sense until it is lived each moment. I invite you to Satsang to join together in finding the Stillness that is always here, always available; in finding the Natural Beauty that you already are.

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