Satsang with Swaha - Audio

Swaha shares excerpts from the Dhammapada and invites us to listen with an open mind and heart. Listening to the truth of the buddhas fin this way can feel like drinking nectar, a kind of nectar that awakens the soul and the heart. The invitation of the buddhas is to wake up to our own true reality.

“We are what we think,
All that we are arises with our thoughts,
With our thoughts we make the world. 
Speak or act with an impure mind
And trouble will follow you.

We are what we think,
All that we are arises with our thoughts,
With our thoughts we make the world. 
Speak or act with a pure mind
And happiness will follow you
As your shadow, unshakable,

“Look how he abused me and hurt me,
How he threw me down and robbed me”
Live with such thoughts and you live in hate.

“Look how he abused me and hurt me,
How he threw mw down and robbed me”
Abandon such thoughts and live in love.

In this world
Hate never yet dispelled hate
Only love dispels hate.
This is the Law, the ultimate Law,
Ancient and inexhaustible.

You too shall pass away, you too shall die.
Knowing this, how can you quarrel?
How easily the wind overturns a frail tree.

Seek happiness in the senses, in the dreams,
Indulge in food and sleep
And you too will be uprooted.
The wind cannot overturn a mountain.
Temptation cannot touch the man
Who is awake, strong and humble,
Who masters himself and follows the Law.

If a man’s thoughts are muddy and dark,
If he is reckless and full of deceit,
How can you follow the path?
How can he wear the yellow robe?

Whoever is master of his own nature,
Bright, clear and true, shining,
He may indeed wear the yellow robe.”
-Gautama Buddha

Vasant Swaha is a modern mystic sharing his love, joy, and wisdom in retreats. This is an excerpt from a Satsang in Thailand, during the “Fragrance of the Buddha” retreat on 27th of February 2016.
For more information visit www.vasantswaha.net

Swaha shares the message of the buddhas: Silence itself, where peace is, where love is, where freedom is. He uses words to point us to a space beyond words, where one can sense this  mystical fragrance.

Swaha shares and comments on The Eightfold Path, one of the treasures compassionately left to us by the Buddha. It is a guide to his Middle Path, steps guiding into deep meditation, leading to peace and enlightenment.

“This is the Middle Path which the Perfect One has found out, which makes one both  see and  know, which leads to peace and enlightenment.
Right Understanding
Right Thought
Right Speech
Right Action
Right Livelihood
Right Effort
Right Mindfulness
Right Meditation” -Gautama Buddha

Vasant Swaha is a modern mystic sharing his love, joy, and wisdom in retreats. This is an excerpt from a Satsang in Thailand, during the “Fragrance of the Buddha” retreat on 27th of February 2016.
For more information visit www.vasantswaha.net

Swaha shares a little story from Buddha, about the magnetic pull that happens between a Master and a disciple, the meeting of heart and soul, where two flames can come together and become one.

Vasant Swaha is a modern mystic sharing his love, joy, and wisdom in retreats. This is an excerpt from a Satsang in Thailand, during the “Fragrance of the Buddha” retreat on 23th of February 2016.
For more information visit www.vasantswaha.net

The essence and the gold of the Buddha’s sutras.
Swaha shares a direct summary of the Four Noble Truths, revealing the path to the unshakeable space we all have inside, free from desires and suffering, where there is eternal peace. 

“He who discovered the profound Truth which is difficult to perceive, difficult to understand.

And what is the end of suffering? 
It is the completely falling away of this desire and craving. 
It is the liberation and detachment from the desires. 
The extinction of greed and hate, of delusion. 
This is called Nirvana, freedom.

And for a disciple who has thus been freed, in whose heart dwells peace, 
there is nothing to be added, and nothing remains to be done.

When that is done, there is nothing more to do, nothing more to be done. 
Just as a mountain remains unshaken by the wind, 
so even no forms, no sounds, no nothing from the outside can cause such a disciple to waver. 
One has become steady in oneself, happy.

One who has considered and understood all the contrasts of this earth, 
and is no more disturbed by anything whatsoever in this world, that is the Peaceful One, 
free from any rage and anger, from sorrow and from longing, from desiring. 
He has passed beyond birth and death.

This I call neither coming nor going away, 
neither standing still nor being born, nor dying. 
This is the end of suffering.
This is the purpose of the holy life. 
It does not consist of asking for alms, begging, 
it does not consist of getting any honor or fame, 
or in gaining any morality, concentration, or any psychic powers. 
Only that unshakeable deliverance of the heart, that is indeed the object of this holy life. 
That is the essence, and that is the goal.”
-Gautama Buddha

In this third audio, Swaha continues reading the first teachings of the Buddha: the Four Noble Truths. He points out how simple the Truth is and how complicated we, human beings, have become, steered by our desires. It is not by getting more but by emptying ourselves, opening up space, that we can receive the Truth, simple and vast. 

“I discover that profound Truth which is so difficult to perceive, so difficult to understand, 
so tranquilizing and sublime. 
Which is not to be gained by mere reasoning, by the mind. 
It is only visible to the wise. 
The world, however, is given away to pleasure, 
delighted with pleasure, enchanted with pleasure. 
Truly, such human beings will never understand the Law of karma and their own conditioning. 
Yet, there are some human beings whose eyes are only a little covered with dust. 
They will understand the Truth.”

-Gautama Buddha

Swaha reads one of the first teachings of the Buddha, the Four Noble Truths, and explores what causes suffering and how to be free of it.

“Birth is suffering;
Decay is suffering;
Death is suffering;
Sorrow, Pain, Grief and Despair are suffering;
Not to get one’s desires is suffering;
In short: the Five Groups of Existence are suffering.

What is the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering?
It is craving which gives rise to fresh rebirth,
and bound up with pleasure and lust,
now here, now there, finds ever fresh delight.

But where does this craving arise and take root?
Wherever in the world there are delightful and pleasurable things,
there are cravings, desires, and it takes root.
Through the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind.
They are all delightful and pleasurable.
There, this craving arises and takes root.

Visual objects, sounds, smells, tastes, bodily impressions and mind objects are delightful and pleasurable: there, this craving arises and takes root.

Consciousness, sense impression, feeling born of sense impressions, perception, will, craving, thinking and reflection are delightful and pleasurable. This is where the craving arises and takes root.

Then what is the truth of the extinction of suffering?
It is the complete fading away and extinction of this craving, its forsaking and abandonment, liberation and detachment from it.

The extinction of greed, extinction of hate, extinction of delusion. This indeed is called Nirvana.”
-Gautama Buddha

Vasant Swaha is a modern mystic sharing his love, joy, and wisdom in retreats. This is an excerpt from a Satsang in Thailand, during the “Fragrance of the Buddha” retreat on 22th of February 2016.
For more information visit www.vasantswaha.net

Fragrance of the Buddha

The Fragrance of the Buddha is a selection of audios from a retreat of the same name, which took place in Thailand in 2016. In this retreat Swaha shared a taste of the Eastern atmosphere and the pearls of the Buddha, bringing the depth of his teachings to light in modern language. Most of all, Swaha shared the profound silence from where the words come, embodying the Buddha’s teachings with his presence and love.

The Way of the Buddha (16.02.21) 
In this first audio, Swaha opens the retreat welcoming everyone to his “traveling ashram.” He shares the Buddha’s life story, and comments on excerpts of the Dhammapada: 

“Few cross over the river
Most are stranded on this side.
On the river bank they run up and down.

But the wise person, following the path,
Crosses over, beyond the reach of death.

Free from desire,
Free from possessions,
Free from attachment and appetite,
Following the seven lights of awakening,

And rejoicing gently in his freedom, 
In this world the wise man 
Becomes a light unto himself,
Pure, shining, free.”
-Gautama Buddha

Vasant Swaha is a modern mystic sharing his love, joy, and wisdom in retreats. This is an excerpt from a Satsang in Thailand, during the “Fragrance of the Buddha” retreat on 21st of February 2016.
For more information visit www.vasantswaha.net

Vasant Swaha is a modern mystic sharing his love, joy, and wisdom in retreats. This talk was from a Satsang during the “Summer Retreat” at Dharma Mountain, Norway, on the 25th of July of 2022. 

For more information visit www.vasantswaha.net

These talks are from the retreat with Vasant Swaha called  “Summer Retreat” at Dharma Mountain, Norway, 2022.

Vasant Swaha is a modern mystic sharing his love, joy, and wisdom in retreats. This talk was from a Satsang during the “Summer Retreat” at Dharma Mountain, Norway, on the 21st of July of 2022. 

For more information visit www.vasantswaha.net