Many people can relate to this person's question. Do you feel like you have to get something or learn something before you can stop? When you stop trying to know how, then what is here?

The real discovery is to find out what remains as all else comes and goes. “It’s a serious question that turns the mind toward its source.”

Gangaji's invitation is to turn your attention into what is unknown, beneath the latest tendencies and thought patterns that typically rule our lives.

Gangaji demonstrates how our allegiance to thoughts and stories so often takes precedence, even after a moment of absolute freedom. And yet the truth is self-evident, despite the addiction to thought.

When we focus on problems and doubt the vast simplicity of our being, we are left wanting.

A conversation about the unfathomable longing for freedom, and the tendency to resist that as if it was something bad.

In certain lifelines, there is an extraordinary desire that appears. Not the ordinary desires of the organism but an extraordinary desire. That is the desire to be free, the desire to know the Truth.

Gangaji examines the roots of racism in America in our basic drive for survival and in the dynamic of the schoolyard bully and his gang. She asks us to consider, "What has your role been in the brutality of controlling others' lives? How have you been complicit?" To say "No, enough," is a choice, and that is an act of freedom. What are you choosing?

Gangaji has a young woman instruct her on how to withdraw and defend herself in order to avoid experiences the hurt of rejection.

This clip is from a dyad exercise in which Gangaji asks us to examine what we defend, and how.