Satsang Teachers A - G

Robert Adams - A disciple of Ramana Maharshi. This is the website of the 'Institute for Compassionate Living', instructed to carry on his teaching following his death in 1997. There are details of events, articles, publications and transcripts. A Home study course is available at $60 per year along with books, booklets and tapes.
"Actually, the only freedom you have is not to react to conditions, and to turn within, to see the truth. Everything else is pre-ordained. Whatever happens in your life is destined to be."

'Silence of the Heart' is a 5* recommended book at Amazon, for the more experienced Advaita practitioner 'who has moved to the end game that is no end game'. 13 sample pages may be viewed at this link. See recommendation.

Alternatively, here is the link to Amazon UK.

Sailor Bob Adamson - Details of meetings (in Melbourne, Australia). His book and CDs may be purchased and there are reviews, extracts and transcripts from meetings and emails. 'Sailor' Bob is a disciple of Nisargadatta Maharaj.
"But where is this self? Where is this self center that I call “ME”? You see that very thought “I AM”, the primary thought, which I cannot negate, is not the reality. Even that is not the reality. But it is the closest I can ever get to it with the mind."

Read an extract from his book 'What's Wrong With Right NOW!'

See also this link for for audio and video clips of Bob's teaching.

Bodhi Avasa - Lives in Wales in the UK but holds satsangs in Europe, US and Canada. His site has details of these together with essays, poems and letters. Videos and CDs may also be purchased. There will be a silent retreat between the 11 and the 16 of July 2006 in Podere Amarti, Pisa, Italy. See the web site for more details.
" From the point of view of being an individual person there is no choice or decision, thus one does not create thoughts by choice or decision, they simply arise and then they are in most cases claimed by the ego concept which is itself just another thought. "

Ramesh Balsekar - The Advaita Fellowship of Redondo beach, California is the site of the Direct Path teaching stemming from Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and contains information about him, Ramesh Balsekar and Wayne Liquorman. Ramesh still receives visitors daily (09.00 - 10.30) at his home in Bombay and has been giving annual retreats in Munich but does not tour. There are transcripts from his satsangs and books may be purchased.
"It is when the mind gets involved that a problem becomes a problem. Otherwise it is just a thought. And if that thought is merely witnessed, it disappears."

Ramesh Balsekar has a number of books. His most recent, and one which is highly acclaimed, is 'The Ultimate Understanding'. 18 sample pages may be viewed at this link.

Alternatively, here is the link to Amazon UK.

Ramesh's Official Site contains a brief biography, details of books and on-line ordering, photos and details of satsangs and seminars. Another site contains details of his seminars at Kovalam, the last of which will take place in Dec 2004.

An excellent selection of recordings of “Talks With Ramesh”, are available from Mr. Singh, who records these daily, at Ramesh’s residence in Mumbai. Please e-mail Singh for details. CDs and DVDs of his daily talks may be purchased here.

Éric Baret - influenced by Jean Klein and Kashmir Shaivism. Gives talks in Europe and Canada. Site contains details of these together with extracts from dialogues.
" You cannot deliberately progress towards an open state, you can only see clearly that you are in a blocked state. So, you let your body-mind slowly become more open to your conviction that you can attain nothing. That you are going to die in total stupidity. You may die in the very next moment, so there is no time to reach anything, to achieve anything. In sadhana you live with the feeling that you are going to die the very next minute; thus, you no longer make strategies and you just do things for the sake of doing them. If you think that you will die within two minutes, what do you do ? Nothing. You don't call anybody, you don't think of anything, you just totally enjoy seeing, feeling, smelling, listening to the last seconds of your life, the beauty of life."

Wolfgang Bernard - Platonic dialogue style e-mail teaching based on the principles of nonduality common to Advaita Vedanta, Zen, and Sufism.
"Liberation does not "happen" on the level where one experiences life. It does not have any submodalities. It is not an experience or a special inner state."

James Braha - disciple of Bob Adamson and author of a book - "Living Reality" - on his experience of 5 weeks spent with Bob discussing non-duality. James teaches near Sarasota in Florida.
" While many seekers have heard of the notion of being willing to have their individuality die and are actually ready to do so, most have no idea how. This is not for any lack of intelligence. It is because there is actually nothing one can do to die to the 'small self'! What is needed is an understanding of reality from the most all-inclusive viewpoint. Then, one’s apparent individuality becomes enveloped by universality in the same way a seemingly isolated wave merges back into the ocean. "

Sundance Burke - author of Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being. He offers satsang worldwide, often with his wife, Katie Davis (see below). Sundance and Katie also have a website for their joint activities.

"We know that the mind is good at what it does, but what is it doing? The snapshot of the investigator is not giving us what we seek. The snapshot is merely pointing to it. This is all that the investigator (mind) can do. The snapshot represents something but it can not “Be” what it is representing... nothing we experience through the senses and intellect can equate to Being who we are. We are always more."

Cee - disciple of Nome, teaching in the tradition of Ramana Maharshi. Site contains essays and dialogues (especially good on the world and ajAti), poetry and video clips together with details of satsangs and retreats. Site no longer active Nov. 2007.
"There are many modern spiritual teachings that say "now is the reality," but it (now - as it appears to human senses) is a far, far cry from the truth of your own Existence. Go deeper than what you see. Go deeper than what you hear. Don't take even "now" as the Reality. The now comes and goes. The final perfect enlightenment in the Advaita is called "no creation." There is no birth or death. There is no bondage and no liberation, nothing has been created. "

Katie Davis - author of Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment. She offers satsang worldwide, often with her husband, Sundance Burke. Katie and Sundance also have a website for their joint activities.

"There is no bondage. All bondage is a fabrication of the unconscious, conditioned mind. It belongs to the concept of "me." You, as you truly are, has always been free. You are free right now. You ARE Freedom. Just be true to who you are."

Ganga (formerly Mira) - Ganga was a disciple (and the wife of) of Sri Poonja. There is a schedule of satsangs and a section of 'Reading', amongst which are an interview with Papaji and two texts of the Astavakra Gita. N.B. Site now closed - Ganga is not presently giving satsangs.
"The very word 'love' chokes itself with emotions, ideas, experiences that are all taken for real. Alas, what a load of delusions! The experience of so-called love only happens through a 'me' related to a 'you', be this 'you' an ideal, a god or God, Nature, the World, the Universe."

Gangaji - There are on-line audio clips, videos, extracts from meetings etc. together with details of retreats and intensives and books to be purchased. There is also a listing of satsang video broadcasts on cable TV around the US. 'You Are That: Satsang with Gangaji' is a 5* purchase from Amazon, recommended for beginners who might find, for example, Nisargadatta's 'I Am That' too obscure.
"True resolve is the most ruthless act of a lifetime. It is the willingness to die to all hope of pleasure. It is the willingness to surrender to truth. You can't surrender to truth so that you will get some more pleasure."

Wide Awake Living is the website of Alice Gardner, about enlightenment and waking up to what is already here, now. There are essays, poetry, links and reviews. Influenced by Eckhart Tolle and Adyashanti, she offers 'mentoring' sessions and circulates a monthly Newsletter.

Jean-Pierre Gomez - Jean-Pierre is a disciple of 'Sailor' Bob Adamson, giving talks in Sedona, Arizona. There are lots of dialogues at his website, including a free e-book. See a sample dialogue here.
"Realize that you cannot ever be separate from the pure universal Consciousness that you are and always have been. That is what so called liberation is all about, the recognition or realization that you are already liberated!"

John Greven - teaching in the tradition of Nisargadatta Maharaj, "Sailor" Bob Adamson & John Wheeler, based in Enid, Oklahoma. Book entitled "Oneness" - review imminent! There is a chapter to read from his new book - 'Living in Silence' .
" Any assumption based on a false premise simply cannot be true. It is like asking, what is the source of the man in the moon? The question dissolves when there is the realization that the assumption that there is a man in the moon, is a false premise. "

See review of John's book 'Oneness'.