What is The Inner Peace Foundation?
The IPF was formed originally by word of mouth as like-minded people came together in Yallingup in the Margaret River Region of Western Australia.
The IPF hosts Satsang Meetings and retreats as well as simply enjoying meals together & spending time with spiritual enlightenment (reality) mentor Rohan.
The IPF is a non-religious community rooted in non dual truth via the “triple gem” vehicle as discussed by Buddha;.
Sangha = Community Support
Buddha Dharma = Teachings
Buddha-field = Enlightened vibrational field of a living teacher
It’s essentially unveiling our true nature - one which ancient texts & spiritual masters have been gently pointing at for thousands of years from all around the globe.
How Did The IPF Come About?
The Inner Peace Foundation is essentially an extension to the public of the inner healing work that has been unfolding informally for seekers of higher consciousness and spiritual enlightenment via Rohan’s guidance.
Rohan was “discovered” by a carpenter working on his home in 2016, who was intrigued by his presence, contentment, and understandings of the world and beyond.
As word spread through the local community, Satsang with Rohan began.
The IPF formed as a vehicle to further share the presence, teachings and practices.
“...few know what spiritual enlightenment or non-duality is.
But regardless of such labels, we all seek happiness, love, and contentment at the deepest levels - its just usually in the wrong directions.
The IPF lovingly serves this basic human longing and birthright.
Technically we are all awake but most are distracted by vanity, the maze of mind, & beliefs which distort reality and cause unhappiness.”
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Is This a Religious Thing?
No. Spiritual masters such as Buddha, Lao Tzu, Rum, Osho, Socrates, Don Juan Matus, Jesus, Miguel Ruiz, Bodhidharma and many many others have all discovered the same thing Rohan has within.
Jesus for example was apparently quoted “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Rohan suggests the “I am” referred to by Jesus is your deepest self, beyond a body or mind.
Jesus knew, his repeaters did not.
From silent knowing, he obviously meant
“I am, IS the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father (Consciousness) except through me (I AM or IS-ness).”
The “me” he refers to is the IS-ness of all seen and unseen, which includes us.
That IS-ness is prior to body-mind or ego, and is the same oneness that all true sages, mystics & masters speak of via direct experience;
Pure silent impersonal awareness.
He was saying your deepest is the I am…. and it is here now as you read these words.
Quantum physics and other sciences are rapidly converging on the same inner understandings, which Rohan experiences directly rather than theoretically.
This pure silent awareness is hiding silently inside us all under the noise of our minds and belief systems.
The truth/reality is uniquely opposite-less and requires no success, popularity, wealth, relationship or any other outer world experiences whatsoever which meant complete freedom…. effortlessly.
The discovery or Self-Realisation is untranslatable with language so we are only using pointers.
The “Story” of Rohan
Rohan’s first Satori was when he was about 9 years old on the way to primary school in the north-west of Western Australia.
Turning a corner on the footpath, he glanced to the right & there was a small mount in the corner with a groove from where walkers & bikes took a tiny shortcut… saving zero time as it was a mound slowing progress which made no sense.
Spontaneously, an incredibly wide & vivid experience of impersonal spaciousness opened up, it was indescribable & beautiful…like slotting into reality through blatantly seeing the absurdity of it.
Yet it startled him as it was so alien to his normal seeing & he “closed” immediately in fear (usual response when this is 1st experienced).
It was 35 years before he understood what happened that day.
In 1994, another Satori occurred 5 days into a 10 day silent retreat in Brookton, near Perth in a Vipassana Meditation Retreat.
An organisation that was created by S.N. Goenka to mimic a monk’s life & reintroduce the Gautama the Buddha’s core meditation technique.
(The other meditation Gautama taught was Loving Kindness or “Metta” to help balance the straight ruthlessness Vipassana can unfold in the seeker.)
Rohan was in his bunk at the retreat centre late that night & was wide awake with boundless energy & was “scanning” his energy body as taught by Mr Goenka’s discourses.
Late into the night he could find nothing other than a tight lump on his right shoulder and was going back & forth over this spot in quite a degree of pain.
In a final “scrape” another opening occured.
“I felt blissful, weightless, free of the body, incredibly alive.
It was the best experience of my life up until that time & became the benchmark of how vibrant & alive life can be
...and the “I” wasn’t there.
It made no sense.
The bliss of Samadhi was far beyond the happiness idea I had been given, which is often reliant on external or material means.
The next day after sleeping perhaps an hour & awaking without any tiredness... it was gone.
I tried & I tried to re-find it over the rest of the retreat.
Trying to explain it to my friends later & its importance fell on deaf ears & at times concerned glances.
Precious few can understand or want higher consciousness I eventually realized.
But only because they had not experienced this new level of joy & freedom before.
If people simply had that glimpse there would be a rush towards ultimate truth of being rather than pleasure hunting and comfort building as they are incomparable.
It’s realised that this is what was being sought all along.”
It was 17 years before he rediscovered that sense of unconditional peace in an abiding way.
”S.N. Goenka’s discourses & mantra’s moved me very deeply as if it was something I once knew & love & yet alien to the world I grew up in.
I was intrigued, aren’t we supposed to be the best society, the most advanced?
Is that true or are we far behind in the ways of the spirit, the unseen?
The mysteries of consciousness itself.
As I was new to Vipassana Meditation & an often confused struggling young western male that didn’t really know anything, it did not enter my mind for a second that I had had a multi-hour glimpse of the ultimate truth in that Brookton Vipassana Retreat!
I had a glimpse into what we are beyond form & thought.
The emptiness the Buddha taught.
Samadhi.”
Many years later Rohan heard of a teacher in the West after decades of on & off study mainly in Buddhism, & the “in the marketplace” Toltec Wisdom Tradition via Don Juan Matus in the books of Carlos Castaneda as well as other traditions.
He finally sat & conversed via Satsang with someone that was holding the light of consciousness and quickly realised the importance of direct teachings for the individual patterns we all have.
The rapid acceleration of progress within the Buddha field of an enlightened teacher that knows you personally & can see the patterns that are enslaving you was profound.
It humbled the prior generic teaching which the ego/personal always filters & distorts, & at times deepens the trap.
Within two years Rohan had his first of numerous deeper & deeper Satori’s in a massive “imploding” of the identity that took years to stabilize as the denser energetic residue of “personal history” left his system.
Integrating Beingness with the Marketplace
Rohan’s work helping others wake up is basically inner engineering as he has been a skilled engineering troubleshooter most of his working life. He utilised that skillset to “hunt the shadows within” himself & now others like a physical or electronic Engineering problem.
He was also an extreme water sports business owner in Hawaii for six years before returning home to Yallingup in Western Australia where he resides now.
“Ultimately, freedom is returning to direct experience, facts over dreams… waking up!
Layers upon layers of misunderstandings that we inherited are all that’s in the way of our Freedom.
Self-Realisation is not a higher goal to be obtained by a somebody.
My assistance is unveiling reality from within you rather than teaching spirituality.”
How the IPF Helps You Find Happiness
This is achieved by some of the Awakening Techniques Rohan shares publicly and direct interactions.
Rohan connects via Online Satsang, 1:1 Private Satsang, 4-10 Day Retreats & simply getting ice cream or dinner with friends.
For Rohan, finding happiness meant finding inner truth which meant finding a teacher that was “home”.
Someone that could see him & where he was not seeing himself clearly.
The ego is the master at hiding and at some level, help is required for all except the extremely rare being that falls into the ultimate truth we are.
We often hear a lot about these beings in Non-Dual or Self-Realisation circles which can be inspiring but also disheartening and all to often distorting…
“My personal distortion patterns were by far the biggest challenge in unveiling truth or Self-Realisation.
The mind likes easy ways but if easy ways rarely work.
Thus they are not actually easy ways as they prolong unhappiness.
I have met seekers devastated in their lost time imagining they are not an ego from thin teachings or from generic wide teachings often meant for a completely different person, place and time.”
Nisargadatta Maharaj mentions he was not happy with one of the greatest Non-Duality Books ever written, I Am That, which was simply a transcribing of his fantastic Satsangs in India.
He said these teachings were for that person in that time, they were not for everyone.
He did not like people getting the wrong teachings and building foundations off that as this is a very subtle and personal game that is heavily reliant on the direct interactive experience of the “Master and the Seeker” that is prior to all language and ideologies that few understand until they experience it directly.
For Rohan, not born in the doorway of vast emptiness, Self-Realisation was quite a struggle and many inner obstacles were healed via an engineering fact-based troubleshooting methodology.
From that, he developed a great inner map of issues others face and offers (only) willing seekers a roadmap from his direct experience and clarity.
This has translated a profound series of spiritual awakenings which began with studying many spiritual masters & ultimately he gained enough clarity to see the depth and sophistication of the mind’s trickery and find a legitimate Satsang teacher to work with directly.
“It is holding this deeper state of consciousness, what we actually are before thoughts & identity, that requires our full attention.”
After a series of family crises, he at some point realized there was no other option to end suffering than face himself completely and trust completely in the process.
This is where the importance of a guide becomes obvious, as Rohan also discovered.
Assisting others to unveil this innate truth is Rohan’s skill-set or “Skillful Means” as Buddhists would call it.
For the true seeker, this is a faster, direct way to reach & reside in the Awakened or Self-Realised state. The natural state... Beyond suffering.
Rohan has an ability to sense what is happening in the truth seekers nervous system as if it were within him (ultimately it is & vice versa). The inner arisings that the seeker is often unaware of & acts from.
”…simply the residue of an often unkind world & faulty beliefs we have been taught from birth & what we came into the world with.”
By using a well-honed combination of energetic transmission, inquiry & an open welcoming of others’ discomfort, there is an undoing of harmful belief knots & an unveiling of the common truth beyond form. Now years later, his word of mouth Satsang meetings are having incredible success with multiple students having profound shifts of consciousness & awareness and seeing what he points at directly within themselves.
What The IPF Is Not
The IPF is very aware of the traps of spiritual ego’s, “woo woo”, avoidance and dogma found in a lot of digital and new age Non-Duality, Buddhism, Spirituality, Woke and Enlightenment circles and does whatever possible to “keep the sails trimmed and the rudder straight” so truth and happiness seekers arrive home as fast as possible.
Rohan engages multiple truth traditions and their best “hacks” to achieve Freedom as fast as possible for authentic seekers.
If you are unwittingly or knowingly seeking a groomed ego or a new spiritual identity, sadly, this is not the right place for you unless you are prepared to examine such things.
Satsang with Rohan is a rare space where Ego Death can & does occur & life truly begins for the open-minded and willing.
The reward is deepest freedom, peace and happiness that relies on no-one or no-thing…
Essentially, Effortless Freedom
“The Initial Spiritual Awakening is just the beginning, it is not the end.
There is no end to the beautiful opening.
Spirituality ends & Reality remains ever unfolding.
Now.”
What is Self-Realisation In a Nutshell?
Rohan describes Self-realisation as not experiencing any separation from Awareness...
That is, the I Am & what’s prior to that Pure Awareness.
It is the Direct Realisation that you are everything, formed & unformed.
“The Sweetest Thought is a Step Away from The Truth”
*Note: Terms like Spiritually Awakened Teacher, Enlightened Teacher, Guru etc are only pointers as there’s no one here separate. “The Teacher and student are one.”
These terms are simply used to assist as a pointer to the quantum difference between someone “home” deeply sharing from Being, and someone not home sharing from mind.
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True Spirituality is simply Reality prior to personal preference..
I am here to help people who are ready for the TRUTH of who they really are.
Bliss the side affect.”
Inner Peace Foundation Feedback
“Until it is absolutely your silent direct experience don’t believe it’s true.
Know the mind will usually doubt the direct experience when you do actually see the truth.
Alternatively, it can manufacture a pseudo awakening as it is a very clever survival mechanism.
We have been trained from birth to follow the mind over direct experience which is a huge part of the ego defence.
The truth the ego hides is pure awareness & pure love & it’s within you now. Is you. Is
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