Kosi is a spiritual teacher and author who offers a simple invitation to stop and discover the freedom that you are.

She is a graduate of Virginia Tech and had a successful career in computer software sales, but was surprised that her financial success offered no lasting happiness or fulfillment and her spiritual search began in 1996.

In June of 2001, after spending time with several of the world’s most renowned spiritual teachers and traditions, she reached a point of profound disillusionment and prayed for an enlightened master. Fourteen days later in she was introduced to Gangaji and the life-changing teaching of Ramana Maharshi. Kosi immediately recognized Gangaji as the master she prayed for and with Gangaji’s sublime guidance and support, she realized the freedom of being—indescribable happiness and fulfillment.

Since her very first meeting with Gangaji, Kosi felt that she was her true and final teacher, but this unexpectedly changed with the mysterious appearance of her Holiness Sri Amma Karunamayi who is recognized throughout India and the world as a living saint—an Avatar—one who is born enlightened as the embodiment of the Divine Mother. Kosi views the purity of Ramana Maharshi’s silence and self-inquiry combined with Amma’s indescribable omniscience, as well as the continuous and long-term support that she received from Gangaji, as the teaching and transmission that offers true Liberation.

Today, Kosi travels around the world sharing her direct experience of the simplicity and grace of silence and self-inquiry. She also uses the sound of the mantra as a very simple and direct catalyst for realizing the freedom of our true nature.

She is the author of Absence of Doubt: When the Search for Enlightenment Stops (Includes and Interview with Gangaji), The Secret Teaching of Jesus Christ, and Arunachala Siva – Heart of Ramana.

This fall she will be introducing two new books; Organic Awakening – A Simple Guide for Living a Free and Happy Life and The Clear Way – Discovering the Great Secret of Your Life.

Website: kosi.org

Transcript of this interview

2nd BatGap interview with Kosi

Interview recorded 8/31/2013

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.

YouTube Video Chapters:

• 00:00:00 – The Name Kosi and its Spiritual Significance
• 00:04:48 – Mysterious Name and Mystical Experiences
• 00:09:03 – Crucified with Christ
• 00:12:31 – The Profound Love Experience
• 00:16:34 – Mysterious Voice and Profound Love
• 00:20:55 – Profound Mystical Experiences and Meeting Gurus
• 00:26:03 – Introduction to Advaita with Guru Maya
• 00:30:41 – The Razor’s Edge: Walking the Path of Self-Realization
• 00:34:57 – Meeting Guru Mai and the Search for Enlightenment
• 00:38:35 – A Profound Relationship with Gangaji
• 00:42:22 – The Holy Moment of Release
• 00:46:16 – Jerusalem Calling
• 00:50:10 – Searching for the Cross in the Church
• 00:53:36 – The Vision of the Risen Christ and Profound Experiences
• 00:57:59 – The Great Mystery
• 01:02:34 – Doubt the Doubter
• 01:06:28 – Following the Longing
• 01:10:02 – True Awareness
• 01:14:11 – Clarity of Presence and Happiness
• 01:18:00 – The Divine Mother and Silent Teaching
• 01:21:50 – Learning to Ride a Bicycle
• 01:25:25 – Awakening and Compassion
• 01:30:13 – The Neo-Advaita Trap
• 01:34:42 – The Profound Revelations of Shiva
• 01:38:56 – Atma-vichara: An Inquiry into the Self
• 01:44:09 – The Shift in Planetary Alignment and its Impact on Consciousness
• 01:50:01 – Trauma and the Global Connection
• 01:54:21 – The purpose of discovering the Atman
• 01:57:40 – Papaji’s Miraculous Journey to Save His Family
• 02:01:29 – The Importance of Choosing a Path
• 02:05:00 – Exciting Discoveries and Farewell

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I Am
Soft Bones Lit with a Misty Diffused Light,
Surrounded and Penetrated with
Essence,
Isness,
The All.
I Am
That Still Point,
Between Illusion and Light.
From this Place, I See the Space of Emptiness
Here Inside
That I Have Made by My Dying,
Ready to receive this vision
of Galaxies
Universes
End on End
Spinning Around the Center of Me
Absolute Stillness
From Which Is Sucked in and Spit Out,
All That Ever Was and All That Ever Will Be.
I Am That,
You Are That.
We Are
One

anatta

Paradoxically, “Anatta”, HWL Poonja, enlightened master, said, “means, I don’t exist.” Exactly! That was Anatta’s experience late one night almost 20 years ago when the ego/personality disappeared and was seen to have less reality than smoke and dust.

Yet a magical life has transpired, regardless. Starting out as a ‘Jesus Freak’ in New York, Anatta lived in Oregon and India as a disciple of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. In the presence of HWL Poonja she washed the Master’s dishes, ate radishes from his hands and massaged his arm which had been injured. She spent a beautiful afternoon sitting under the trees in Ojai California attending a talk with the late J. Krishnamurt. All in all, Anatta eventually traveled to India on seven separate occasions.

Continuing the journey in the west to Hawaii and Sedona, she sat with many well known teachers – finally finding her heart’s home back in the town of Tiruvannamali, India, and has felt blessed sitting at the foot of her ultimate teacher, the sacred mountain, Arunachala, near the Ramana Maharshi ashram; a place where, since ancient times, many enlightened beings have been drawn

When not in India, Anatta lived a very ordinary life in Southern California near her three daughters and three grandchildren.  Surprisingly existence has sent her two more teenagers to raise and she is currently in the mountains of North Carolina doing just that, though that journey is coming to an end as the “kids” are almost grown.

The Ordinary Life and Deepening into the Divine still go on and on, where they join into one blessed existence…..

About the book, The Ordinary Buddha, by Anatta Campbell

A wonderful “secret” is revealed in these pages —that ordinary people are coming to the Highest Spiritual Experience from all variety of backgrounds. Enlightenment is possible here and now for each individual, absolutely regardless of background or training.

A huge momentum is happening, a universal movement toward “waking up.” Unlike in ancient times, now it is happening, to you and me, and the guy down the street. No particular path or religion is responsible for it.

Adyashanti and Byron Katie, two well known teachers, share their personal awakening stories, as well as eleven other “ordinary” people who, in beautiful and dramatic ways, share with us their journey from real-life, not so saintly pasts to the discovery of their true nature; The discovery that we are not who we thought ourselves to be all along, but something far more grand and yet sweetly ordinary.       The Knowing sweeps through us like a fresh breeze on a spring morning. Their discovery is our discovery.

The Enlightened ones say there is not the slightest breath of separation. The message is, You Are That.

• Anatta is available for Skype or phone sessions.
• Please feel free to contact Anatta, at: [email protected]
• www.Facebook.com/TheOrdinaryBuddha
• The website for her book, “The Ordinary Buddha“: www.Theordinarybuddha.org.

Transcript of this interview

Interview recorded 3/9/2013

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.

YouTube Video Chapters:

• 00:00:00 – Introduction: Anatta Campbell on Buddha at the Gas Pump
• 00:05:28 – The Different Aspects of Awakening
• 00:10:21 – The Continuous Process of Awakening
• 00:13:50 – The Journey of Awakening and Maturing
• 00:17:47 – The Fullness of Emptiness and Presence
• 00:21:35 – The Paradox of Existence
• 00:25:15 – The Experience of Selflessness
• 00:29:16 – Living Life Differently After Awakening
• 00:33:02 – The Search is Over
• 00:35:37 – Creativity and Aligning with the Source of Life
• 00:39:25 – Addiction and Alignment
• 00:43:32 – The Miracle of Utilizing Laws of Nature
• 00:47:06 – A Message from the Other Side
• 00:50:43 – The Balance of Control and Surrender
• 00:54:50 – The Impact of Words and Ego Growth
• 00:58:24 – From Jesus Freak to Seeker
• 01:01:31 – Going to India with Osho
• 01:04:30 – Understanding and Accepting the Flaws of Spiritual Teachers
• 01:07:46 – Controversies and Personal Experiences with Osho
• 01:11:09 – The Transformative Power of Meditation
• 01:14:30 – Surrendering Everything I Thought I Was
• 01:18:00 – Different Psychic Experiences
• 01:21:38 – Rediscovering the Chapters
• 01:24:47 – Following a Unique Path
• 01:28:27 – Oneness and Duality in Existence
• 01:32:08 – The Longing for God to Know Itself
• 01:36:09 – Experiencing the Thoughts of Animals
• 01:39:37 – A Conversation about Consciousness and Life
• 01:42:18 – E-Book and Hardcover Publishers
• 01:45:25 – Meditating in the Woods
• 01:48:48 – Gratitude and Farewell

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After a lifetime of spiritual seeking, Nirmala met his teacher, Neelam, a devotee of H.W.L. Poonja (Papaji). She convinced him that seeking wasn’t necessary; and after experiencing a profound spiritual awakening in India, he began offering satsang and Nondual Spiritual Mentoring with Neelam’s blessing. This tradition of spiritual wisdom has been most profoundly disseminated by Ramana Maharshi, a revered Indian saint, who was Papaji’s teacher. Nirmala’s perspective was also profoundly expanded by his friend and teacher Adyashanti.

Nirmala offers satsang in gratitude for the love and grace that flow through his teachers, Neelam and Adyashanti, and for the Truth brought to this world by Ramana Maharshi and H.W.L. Poonja. Advaita satsang is offered as a celebration of the possibility, in every moment, of recognizing the truth of who we are. Nirmala offers a unique vision and a gentle, compassionate approach, which adds to this rich tradition of inquiry into the truth of Being.

“What is appealing about Nirmala is his humility and lack of pretense, which welcomes whatever arises within the field of experience. In the midst of this welcoming is always an invitation to inquire deeply within, to the core of who and what you are. Again and again, Nirmala points the questions back to the questioner and beyond to the very source of existence itself-to the faceless awareness that holds both the question and the questioner in a timeless embrace.” – From the foreword by Adyashanti, spiritual teacher and author of Emptiness Dancing, to Nirmala’s book, Nothing Personal: Seeing Beyond The Illusion Of A Separate Self.

“Nirmala is a genuine and authentic spiritual teacher, who points with great clarity to the simplicity and wonder of nondual presence.” – Joan Tollifson, Advaita spiritual teacher and author of Awake in the Heartland

Nirmala lives in Sedona, Arizona with his wife, Gina, and their two dogs, Rafi and Rumi. Contact Nirmala by using the contact form here. Read an interview with Nirmala here. More information about Gina and her books, including Radical Happiness: A Guide to Awakening, is available on radicalhappiness.com.

More of Nirmala’s books:

• Everything Is Included: Essays About Truth, Love, and Awareness
• That Is That: Essays About True Nature
• Gifts With No Giver: A Love Affair With Truth
• Living From The Heart
• Meeting the Mystery: Exploring the Aware Presence at the Heart of All Life

Referred to during the interview:

• Video of Andromeda Galaxy colliding with ours in 8.5 billion years.
• Bill Moyers and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt talk about the psychological underpinnings of our contentious culture, why we can’t trust our own opinions, and the demonizing of our adversaries.

Transcript of this interview

Interview recorded 6/2/2012

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.

YouTube Video Chapters:

• 00:00:00 – Introduction to Nirmala and his teachings
• 00:04:09 – The Measurement of Truth
• 00:07:47 – Focusing on Desires and Sense of Self
• 00:11:01 – The Geographic Cure and Conditioning
• 00:14:20 – Focusing and Expanding
• 00:17:49 – The Illusion of Reality
• 00:21:15 – The Fundamental Quality of Space
• 00:24:52 – The Space Within and Without
• 00:27:53 – Contemplating the Existence of Intelligence in Everything
• 00:31:46 – The Illusion of Thoughts and Political Perspectives
• 00:35:33 – The Role of Spirituality in Politics and Morality
• 00:40:02 – Functioning in Vastness and Discriminating Truth
• 00:44:11 – The Ordinary Experience of Being the Boss
• 00:48:07 – Discrimination and Heart Wisdom
• 00:52:12 – The Concept of Better and Worse in Experience
• 00:56:38 – The Illusion of “Better” Sound
• 01:00:27 – The Small Truth of Money and Happiness
• 01:04:31 – The Journey of Self-Discovery
• 01:08:58 – An Unexpected Journey towards Awakening
• 01:13:19 – Letting go of the desire to awaken
• 01:17:52 – Following the Heart
• 01:21:36 – Oneness with the Ganges River
• 01:26:14 – The Invitation to Give Satsang
• 01:29:54 – Trust in Physical Reality
• 01:33:37 – The Sacredness of Reality
• 01:37:23 – Finding Balance with Sweets
• 01:41:23 – The Experience of Consciousness and Meditation
• 01:45:26 – The Definition of Jnanis and Yogis
• 01:49:36 – The Infinite Possibilities of Consciousness
• 01:54:00 – Levels of Consciousness beyond a Thousand
• 01:57:19 – Wrapping Up and Thank You

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