A disciple writes sharing how distracted and not wholeheartedly dedicated to the path she has been. Swaha addresses her restlessness by reflecting on the art of being oneself while living in this world. That takes preparing oneself with patience and receptivity in an effort to simply be quiet and listen, so that one’s own silence becomes their guide. Drop the unnecessary things while focusing on meditation and Love. Although being two different paths, both meet at the end, in a celebration of on...
Apr 16, 2023•26 min•Season 19Ep. 10
A disciple shares with Swaha her experience of spontaneous visions, such as seeing Osho in the temple, right after Satsang. She felt as if she had been around Jesus. Some people have clearer senses, Swaha tells her. And from his own experience he shares his understanding of this cozy familiar feeling of beingness, which is a timeless connection with the Master, always present inside each one of us. By resting in that cozy familiar feeling and surrendering, sensitivity always helps. Reading a let...
Apr 15, 2023•20 min•Season 19Ep. 9
A Master, a Guru, is one who blesses his disciples with the light that brightens up the path towards inner spaces beyond the mind. Through two short Zen stories Swaha shares about the importance of being total, exploring the unknown, hearing and approaching the Master more and more. Because it is by fulfilling oneself with such listening that one finds one’s way back home, to the heart and beyond the mind. Vasant Swaha is a modern mystic sharing his love, joy, and wisdom in retreats. This is an ...
Apr 13, 2023•56 min•Season 19Ep. 8
Emotional acceptance is to allow your feelings to simply be as they are, embracing them, for it is through them that you grow aware. Sadness, for instance, takes you deeper into your humanity. And when you conquer more depth, Swaha adds, “you can rise higher. When you feel sadness, you can feel more joy. The hopelessness of life, then the joy, the blissfulness of life.” Vasant Swaha is a modern mystic sharing his love, joy, and wisdom in retreats. This is an excerpt from a Satsang during the “My...
Apr 12, 2023•43 min•Season 19Ep. 7
Only the heart can understand the true meaning of devotion. The ego struggles to accept it since in devotion it is dissolved. Swaha sheds light onto that notion while also explaining the two paths to self-realization: the path of devotion to a Guru, and the path of meditation. The former, also known as Bhakti, is more feminine in its nature, and the latter, more masculine. But both lead to the same destination. Vasant Swaha is a modern mystic sharing his love, joy, and wisdom in retreats. This i...
Apr 11, 2023•45 min•Season 19Ep. 6
“Whatever it takes to wake up, wake up, rise! When the light is there, don’t miss the opportunity.” And the light is your very Guru. His mission is to kindle your heart and reconnect you with your own soul. Take the step. Surrender. Be total. On March 21st, the anniversary of Osho’s enlightenment, Swaha honors his Master, reading a story by Indian mystic poet and saint Kabir. Vasant Swaha is a modern mystic sharing his love, joy, and wisdom in retreats. This is an excerpt from a Satsang during t...
Apr 10, 2023•19 min•Season 19Ep. 5
A sannyasin faces and exposes the situation he finds himself in. As he realizes that his know-it-all facade has been in the way of really being part of his work team, he stops hiding behind it. While Swaha sheds light on the situation, encouraging his disciple to step away from his ego and stand up for his knowledge as it is, he reminds us all: “See your situation where you are. Purify yourself. Empty yourself. Know yourself. Be truthful. Stand up for what you know and what you don’t know. Becom...
Apr 09, 2023•36 min•Season 19Ep. 4
Insecurity about how others perceive us and the desire to maintain a certain image can lead to shyness and fear. One of Swaha’s young disciples sought guidance on how to overcome fear and conquer her shyness. He encouraged her to live and take risks because it is by facing ourselves that we are able to break free from our patterns–both the individual and cultural ones–and be true to our hearts. And it is only then that we are able to balance our divine masculine aspects and divine feminine aspec...
Apr 08, 2023•29 min•Season 19Ep. 3
In meditation, one tastes love and peace. But how is it possible to keep those feelings present in one’s daily life? While speaking from his personal experience serving his Master, Swaha addresses his disciple’s question. He talks about the work of a Guru, which is to remind us to listen to our own hearts, diving deep inside, where there is patience, trust, surrender, and non-doing. Being with a Master, one catches the “buddha disease” and relaxes in the process. Vasant Swaha is a modern mystic ...
Apr 07, 2023•26 min•Season 19Ep. 2
Sometimes we need to experience pain, suffering, and hopelessness in order to realize that gaining a human birth is extraordinary luck. Swaha reminds us again: life is too beautiful to miss. What a great opportunity! Vasant Swaha is a modern mystic sharing his love, joy, and wisdom in retreats. This is an excerpt from a Satsang during the “Mystic Rose” retreat at Mevlana Garden, in Brazil, on the 13th of March of 2023. This audio contains Portuguese consecutive interpretation. For more informati...
Apr 06, 2023•19 min•Season 19Ep. 1
Vasant Swaha tells the story of a monk who visited Master Kisu and soon was ready to leave, saying he would go all over to learn the five flavors of Zen. Kisu agreed there were five flavors of Zen and told the monk that there he had only one. The monk asked what that sole flavor was, to which the Master responded. While telling this story, Swaha demonstrates not only how a disciple must be open and receptive to understand, but also how we can benefit from the five flavors of Zen. Vasant Swaha is...
Feb 06, 2023•13 min•Season 18Ep. 6
"Once you put an end to karma and nurture your awareness, any attachments that remain will come to an end." Vasant Swaha echoes the words buddhist monk Bodhidharma spoke in the 5th century, teaching the seekers how to nurture awareness and find the way back home, find themselves. Vasant Swaha is an enlightened Master sharing his love, joy, and wisdom in retreats. This is an excerpt from a Satsang on the 11th of January, 2015, during the “Zen Snow, Zen Fire” Silent Retreat in Dharma Mountain, Nor...
Feb 03, 2023•8 min•Season 18Ep. 5
Buddhist monk Bodhidharma spoke about what makes one either a mortal or a buddha, and Vasant Swaha spelled it out, showing there are also those in between. He suggested a few questions one should ask themself, so they can start getting wiser and return to their buddha-nature. "Only then will you see things from the Tathagata’s perspective." Vasant Swaha is an enlightened Master sharing his love, joy, and wisdom in retreats. This is an excerpt from a Satsang on the 9th of January, 2015, during th...
Feb 01, 2023•24 min•Season 18Ep. 4
Vasant Swaha speaks the words of Bodhidharma and talks about the true buddha nature because, he says, "like [Bodhidharma] talked to his disciples, I have to talk to my disciples also." There is only one reason for an Enlightened Master to speak, and by doing so, Swaha performs "the art". Vasant Swaha is an enlightened Master sharing his love, joy, and wisdom in retreats. This is an excerpt from a Satsang on the 8th of January, 2015, during the “Zen Snow, Zen Fire” Silent Retreat in Dharma Mounta...
Jan 29, 2023•6 min•Season 18Ep. 3
Relax. Make sure you are in a comfortable posture. Park your body, stop your mind. Then dive deep focusing on your breath and feel the subtle energy flowing within. Feel yourself. This is the teaching of the Masters: Come back to yourself. It takes more than reciting the scriptures and burning incense to get to the bottom of life and death and understand your true nature. Find your Master, you will find yourself. Life has happened, death will come, so take the teachings to heart and escape the w...
Jan 26, 2023•39 min•Season 18Ep. 2
In the 5th century, Bodhidharma, a self-realized buddhist, walked from India to China. Initiated by an enlightened woman, the former Indian prince left on a three-year journey across the Himalayas to deliver Buddha's teachings. Swaha introduces his disciples and friends to the Zen tradition, telling the story of this wild man, known as "The Barbarian," who in China brought life to the ancient scriptures, shook up Emperor Wu with lessons, and sat in a cave for nine years, waiting for a true disci...
Jan 23, 2023•42 min•Season 18Ep. 1
To repent is to be in contact with oneself, understand and become aware of one's own actions. In this Christmas special episode, Vasant Swaha remembers Master Jesus’s words on repentance, such a noble act, and what happens when one cries, “enough is enough!”, letting go of the past, so that they never sin again. But what is sin? And, mainly, what does it mean to sin and to choose not to sin? Swaha sheds light on those issues, while addressing a letter in which a disciple expresses her unwillingn...
Dec 27, 2022•20 min•Season 9Ep. 5
The soul longs to be real, free from the mind and the ego. “What's your life about anyway? Nothing but running away from your own silence. [...] Lose yourself! And do not fear this loss”. Echoing Rumi's words, Vasant Swaha shares what a seeker should nourish and what he or she should let go of in order to experience transformation and live freedom in reality. Vasant Swaha is a modern mystic sharing his love, joy, and wisdom in retreats. This is an excerpt from a Satsang during the “Waves of Love...
Dec 23, 2022•29 min•Season 15Ep. 11
"Prepare for the happiness that will come, prepare for the silence that will come, prepare for the Love that will come, that is waiting to be uncovered, to come forth." But is it possible to reconcile friends, a partner, and social life with being in silence and experiencing peace? While addressing that particular matter posed by a disciple in a letter, Vasant Swaha talks about yogis, lamas, self-realized people who have meditated in caves in the Himalayas, the ultimate truth, and what really he...
Dec 22, 2022•35 min•Season 15Ep. 10
“Everybody is a miniature universe, and you have a center. Everything moves from that, from that silent spot”. In this Satsang, Swaha addresses the center of the body, the center of gravity, responding to a disciple who wants to know how to integrate this physical center and go deeper into the vertical dimension, beyond the physical. Swaha goes on to explain that we are born and walk through life on the linear dimension of time, the horizontal dimension. But as humans, we have potential to rise ...
Dec 22, 2022•25 min•Season 15Ep. 9
“Better than a hundred years of mischief, is one day spent in contemplation”. Swaha comments on Buddha´s Dhammapada, one of the most widely known Buddhist scriptures worldwide. As he reads and makes the words of the Buddha clear to our modern understanding, Swaha points out that first the seeker needs a spiritual path as a way to come back to the moment. However, the moment comes when even the path is transcended, and one becomes established in the true space of the being. Vasant Swaha is a mode...
Dec 20, 2022•26 min•Season 15Ep. 8
Where do sickness and pain come from? Is the very body that suffers the one responsible for developing pain? And how does the mind play into that? In his naturally beautiful and gentle way, Vasant Swaha speaks to his disciples and friends about going beyond one's idea of what one is. He expresses how we should all be sensitive and compassionate, listening to our pain so we can learn from it. After all, being part of life, it is the very pain that helps us understand and overcome it in a truthful...
Dec 20, 2022•26 min•Season 15Ep. 7
“By continuously losing, one reaches doing nothing. And by doing nothing, everything is done.” Swaha reads this quote by Lao Tzu as he comments on the inquiry “What will I do with my life?”– a question his disciple claims to have since childhood. Vasant Swaha is a modern mystic sharing his love, joy, and wisdom in retreats. This talk was in Brazil, during the "Waves of Love" retreat, on the 01st of December 2022. This audio contains Portuguese consecutive interpretation. For more information vis...
Dec 18, 2022•44 min•Season 15Ep. 6
A disciple asks Swaha: why is it so difficult for us to trust others? The master’s answer shows us that we are taught to fear others in our upbringing. Fear is all around us, and we have to learn to trust again and love unconditionally to be able to relax and go deeper into meditation. Vasant Swaha is a modern mystic sharing his love, joy, and wisdom in retreats. This talk was in Brazil, during the "Waves of Love" retreat, on the 29th of November 2022. This audio contains Portuguese consecutive ...
Dec 17, 2022•15 min•Season 15Ep. 5
"Totally by chance," a gardener wrote in his letter, saying that was how he started working in the Master's garden. "Nothing is by chance," replies Swaha. "God works in mysterious ways." The way back home to be with God is the climax of human life. But why isn't everyone aware of that longing? How can one reclaim that space in the hearts? How can one silence the mind and relearn to breathe? Judgements, arguments, hatred distance will distance you from your heart. Be a meditator, jump inside, and...
Dec 17, 2022•38 min•Season 15Ep. 4
“The whole mission of the Master is to give you the real”. Swaha shares his light on how many times the pain is needed to grow. He reads a letter from a man who resisted 10 years to come for a Retreat and, after traveling from Canada to Brazil got sick and found himself in a longing to finally come closer. Swaha also reads and comments on a poem of Rumi about pain and the value of a true Guru for spiritual maturity: the words of the prophets and masters are midwives helping one to be reborn. Vas...
Dec 16, 2022•19 min•Season 15Ep. 3
Can a woman be both a mother and a meditator focused on her self-growth? During Satsang, while answering a letter from a woman attending the retreat for the first time, Vasant Swaha addresses her trouble with motherhood as a parent who feels herself split between being in retreat and being with her child. Vasant Swaha is an enlightened Master sharing his love, joy, and wisdom in retreats. This talk was in Brazil, during the “Waves of Love” retreat, on the 23rd of November 2022. This audio contai...
Dec 14, 2022•40 min•Season 15Ep. 2
A young woman is happy to have taken the decision to follow her heart. Feeling depressed in the big city, she now feels at home with a more simple life, and going to retreats again. Swaha talks about how truth challenges our dreams and fantasies, and that we should listen more to our feelings than our thoughts. Vasant Swaha is an enlightened Master sharing his love, joy, and wisdom in retreats. This talk was in Brazil, during the "Waves of Love" retreat, on the 21st of November of 2022. This aud...
Dec 14, 2022•44 min•Season 15Ep. 1
While responding to a disciple’s letter in which she shares her encounter with the deep, silent space of the pure being, Swaha reads and comments on the words of Daya. Born around 1700, in India, Daya Bai, “a sweet singer like the Indian koyal,” said Osho, was Charandas’s disciple. She was an enlightened woman who, through poetry, not only shared her devotion to her Master, but also spoke about the importance of withdrawing from all our restless activities outside and dedicating ourselves to sto...
Nov 12, 2022•20 min•Season 9Ep. 4
During an intimate Satsang in Brazil, while answering one of his disciples’ letter, Vasant Swaha tells the story about this common man who awoke from his dream of being a war hero, back in the twelfth century, and became one of the most beloved catholic saints: Saint Francis of Assisi. It is unknown whether it was the mystic Shamz who guided him toward enlightenment. But it is widely understood that the twenty-five-year-old man born in Assisi devoted himself to Love, simplicity, and people. He p...
Oct 12, 2022•46 min•Season 9Ep. 3
