What is it like to live in America and have a guru, to meditate with an enlightened being, to go to India on a pilgrimage? What is the process of spiritual growth, of purification?  What happens when Kundalini awakens? Is any of this for me?

All of these questions and more are explored in Sangha Speaks by the students of the Los Angeles, California-based Hard Light Center of Awakening. In this eclectic collection of poems, essays, and stories, the students share their personal accounts of treading the spiritual path—the difficulties and the victories, the triumphs and the tears. 

Sangha Speaks portrays a distinctively contemporary, Western version of the timeless Eastern path to Enlightenment.