Vishrant is a contemporary mystic and enlightened teacher from Perth, Western Australia. For more than 25 years, he has been guiding seekers of truth worldwide through online Satsangs, Enlightenment Intensive Retreats, and his books on higher consciousness and self-realisation.
As a spiritual teacher, his path combines the clarity of Advaita Vedanta, pointing directly to non-dual awareness, with the Buddhist way of the heart, living in love and service. Most essentially, his teaching is grounded in undoing the mind by removing belief systems and conditioning that keep us separate, a radical approach he absorbed during years of immersion in Osho’s Mystery Schools.
Unlike philosophical approaches, Vishrant offers a pragmatic way for seekers to go beyond the mind and awaken to their own true nature. His focus is on dismantling the structures of ego and the illusion of separation so that what remains, pure awareness, love, and peace, can be recognised as our true nature.
Vishrant was born Vincent William Cooper on the 8th of January 1954. He came from a dysfunctional family and suffered abuse during his childhood and schooling.
Despite the hardship, Vishrant maintained a rebellious spirit and an awareness of energy from a young age.
Vishrant believes these difficulties shaped his orientation toward higher consciousness. Eventually, he came to understand that true rebellion meant going beyond the mind and finding one’s real nature.
At 19, Vishrant began personal development training and encounter groups, which started to transform his life for the better. He diligently removed negative thought patterns like worry and procrastination.
This consciousness shift led him to a career in business, where he built a multi-million-dollar publishing empire. Vishrant had retired by age 28, acquiring luxury cars, boats and properties.
Vishrant later realised his material success failed to bring any lasting happiness. He had climbed the mountain of material success but found nothing there, so began his quest for higher consciousness, heart and enlightenment.
Vishrant came across Osho Rajneesh by accident in 1983. After attending an Osho group, he felt a strong calling and his search for higher consciousness and enlightenment began.
Vishrant became an Osho sannyasin and spent time with Osho in both Oregon and Pune. He interviewed Osho at Rajneeshpuram in 1985 which changed his life forever.
Vishrant travelled the world attending different mystery schools and actively sought out teachers to help him remove the obstacles in the way of heart and enlightenment.
In 1987, while sailing off the coast of Australia, Vishrant’s boat sank, leaving him and his partner stranded in open water. For 18 hours he drifted with hypothermia, surrounded by sharks, not knowing if either of them would survive. At one point he looked at his partner and knew he had cost her her life. In that moment of deep regret and surrender, something unexpected broke through, a profound opening and the experience of unconditional love.
This near-death experience became the turning point of his life. He realised that love is the only reality of true importance, greater than any wealth, achievement or recognition.
He gave his multi-million-dollar publishing companies to his staff, took off his shoes and walked barefoot across Australia for four years, living as a nobody in search of his heart. He then went back to school to train as a naturopath and psychotherapist, while already working as a masseur. For the next ten years he served people directly, supporting their bodies, minds and health.
This period became the foundation of what he later called the Way of the Heart, the discovery that love is the only real worth in life, and that the deepest fulfilment comes through living in service of love by helping others.
Vishrant studied the teachings of all the old masters, investigating many teachings & philosophies including Buddhism, Taoism, Sufism, Hinduism, Advaita Vedanta and others.
In the late 1990s, in the presence of various travelling Satsang teachers Isaac Shapiro, Gangaji and Vartman, Vishrant started to experience multiple awakenings or satoris.
In May 1999, after a retreat with one of his teachers, his enlightenment stabilised and he has since been existing as Beingness aware of itself ever since.
Vishrant dedicates his life to helping seekers find the indescribable beauty of Beingness.
Motivated by his love of people, he holds Satsang to support seekers on their path to higher consciousness just as his teachers supported him.
Vishrant points seekers back to themselves, to the awareness is aware of their minds. His function is to shine the light so we may see who we already are beyond any false identities.
Vishrant became what Osho Rajneesh wanted his sannyasins to become: Zorba the Buddha. A new man, an awakened man, who celebrates life; someone who is in the world, but not of the world.
Vishrant continually demonstrates how it is possible to live from the highest truth of our being and be active in the world through his many adventures, some of which you can find on his social media.
Vishrant offers a pragmatic path to higher consciousness. He teaches from his own direct experience as a seeker and draws inspiration from masters such as Osho and Ramana Maharshi.
Vishrant is living proof that anyone can wake up without needing to retreat to a monastery or ashram. The only requirementis the ability to surrender unconditionally.
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