Satsang-USA

Welcome!

We are members of the International Satsang Association located in the United States.

The International Satsang Association (Internationale Satsang Vereingung), a global organization with headquarters in Graz, Austria, is a companionship among those who are open to the truth in all religious traditions 

and are seeking to know the source of all life, accepting their need for guidance, challenge and support in the concrete living out of their ideals.

Satsang members recognize the barriers which are at the heart of many of today 's social evils, barriers which create fear and suspicion and thus keep people in conflict.

In small, often unnoticed, yet significant ways they are working to transform fear into respect and understanding - wherever they live and work.

Satsang members make a serious commitment to:

• their personal growth in spiritual awareness and practice
• helping remove the barriers of prejudice and ignorance which divide persons from each other
• building up relationships of compassion and appreciation across frontiers of race, language, culture and religion.

The purposes and values of the International Satsang Association are:

• to promote personal and spiritual development together with an increase in social awareness and responsibility
• to develop a contemplative spirituality which draws from the wisdom of different traditions
• to promote and stimulate a greater understanding and deeper appreciation of the various spiritual, religious, and cultural traditions of East and West
• to promote dialogue and rapprochement between different religious traditions
• to create opportunities to experience various forms of community which are limited in time and loosely structured, accessible to women and men of all nationalities, social status, and religious traditions
• to establish places of contemplation and encounter where spiritual practice, guidance, and personal studies concerning spirituality and associated subjects are facilitated in an Ashram context

Satsang groups in the USA include:

• Bay Area Satsang
  contact: bayareasatsang@yahoo.com
  We ordinarily meet in the South Bay once every two months for two hours. Our sessions include 20 minutes of silent meditation followed by discussion on some aspect of how we live out the three fundamental commitments of Satsang.
• Monterey Area Satsang
  contact: Michelle Henault, SND, MTRHENAULT@aol.com
• Northern California Satsang
  contact: Patrick Couch hoenigcouch@sbcglobal.net
• Southern California Satsang

 

Seeking together • helping to create • a planetary vision • a universal heart