More from Gangaji's final residential retreat at Fallen Leaf Lake including dialogues on searching, finding and living in freedom. Plus two powerful monologues on mistaking psychotherapy for self-realization and the freedom to be still.
These clips are some of the highlights from the first few days of Gangaji's final residential retreat at Fallen Leaf Lake. Whether someone is meeting Gangaji for the very first time, or returning after many years, these conversations and monologues are alive with the power of direct experience, and the unnamable transmission that we are for each other, just being ourselves.
A rare conversation between Gangaji and James Twyman from the Shift Network's Mystics Summit.
01.07.2023 Online Public Meeting (from Teams)
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An Online Public Meeting hosted by East West Bookstore in Seattle, WA
A selection of clips from Gangaji's May 2022 Silent Retreat at Fallen Leaf Lake in the Sierra Mountains. These monologues and dialogues with Gangaji are from the second half of the retreat.
May 5th 2004 AM
Yosemite, CA
This meeting from a silent retreat opens with Gangaji's invitation: "What have you realized so far?" There is a common theme to the participants who come up: their humanity. From the grist of relationship, to the possibility of annihilation by love; from the passion for awakening, to the fear of being alone, Gangaji welcomes each report, each unique and beautiful human story, with the same grace and contagious joy. The meeting ends with a song from Amber Terrell.
A selection of clips from Gangaji's May 2022 Silent Retreat at Fallen Leaf Lake in the Sierra Mountains. These monologues and dialogues with Gangaji are from the first half of the retreat. Part II will follow.
Recording of Gangaji's June 5 Online Public Meeting.
October 20, 1997 PM
Asheville, NC
Failing to be who we think we should be, or that we somehow lack the maturity for true self-realization, can give rise to deep feelings of unworthiness. Yet as Gangaji points to throughout this video, the proof of real spiritual maturity is in the complete willingness to fail, to lose every pretense of control, and surrender the mind to what cannot be known.
“I am asking you to bring up all the images you have of yourself of being unworthy, unholy, undeserving, immature, not ready. Everything you think somehow separates you from the truth of who you are. I am asking you to open that door.”