Authentically Yourself: You Can Stop "Faking It"
“All of your life you have wanted to be who you are. That is what authentic means, isn’t it?”
Recognizing you are just “faking it” is a moment of discriminating wisdom that reveals an essential choice point. Will you keep faking it? When the desire for the truth of who you are overwhelms every other human desire, the choice becomes clear. In this exchange, Gangaji takes us on a deep dive into the desire for authenticity and the habit of postponement.
The Invitation to Disillusionment
We have the experience of getting somewhere, getting very close, losing ground, climbing up, falling down...over, and over, and over. Still the elusive permanence is just out of sight. Then in a moment of radical truth-telling, there is a possibility of disillusionment with what one has done to reclaim this moment of opening...or this Truth. It is in the disillusionment that the opening in the mind for satsang appears. Where there is a willingness to simply say “I don’t know.”
The Many Guises of Self-Doubt
If you are expecting everything to be perfect after you have experienced the truth of yourself, or if you are experiencing "it" to be anything in particular, that can be a form of self-doubt. It is in standing alone that you truly find a depth of support, the self-confirmation and capacity to just be yourself.
The Longing is not the Problem
A deep longing for connection, for truth, for love, for yourself, when investigated, is not really the problem. When you inquire into this longing, what is here?
Let Peace Be Found. Let Happiness Be Found. Let Love Be Found.
Where are you looking for peace, or happiness of love. Is where you are looking subject to change? If it is, you have the opportunity to discover deeper than that what is always here and who your truly are.
Is the Longing the Problem?
A deep longing for connection, for truth, for love, for yourself, when investigated, is not really the problem. When you inquire into this longing, what is here?
You Can't Hide From Yourself
When you discover that what you are hiding from is yourself, you don't need to hide any more. In a game of hide and seek, when you are willing to be "It," to come out of hiding and expose yourself, then you are found.
From a recent online weekend with Gangaji. In this fresh moment of really inquiring within the truth itself is revealed.
Where Are You Looking for Yourself?
When you are looking outside yourself for peace or freedom or happiness, you can stop and turn your attention in, to the one place we so often overlook. In one instant of simply ending your search, you can let yourself be found.
When we feel lost we try to sooth ourselves and tell ourselves we are not really lost. If you feel lost in your spiritual search, Gangaji asks—do you dare to stop, relax, and let yourself be found?