The Seriousness of Your Intent
February 20, 1999 AM
Maui, Hawaii
When you have been touched by a moment of pure realization, of pure grace, you know what a huge gift it is. After that moment, often begins a struggle with conditioned existence, which can also be huge. In this video, Gangaji gives us the opportunity to inquire, “What is my responsibility to grace?”
“If there is seriousness of intent to really be free, then there is a recognition that there is nothing more important than that. Seriousness of intent is your responsibility. It is a joyous realization, but it is not trivial. If it is trivial, then there is no possibility of real breakthrough.”
Public Meeting with Gangaji, January 2
A selection of highlights from the second day of Gangaji's January 2, 2022 Public Meeting.
July 29, 1995 AM
Boulder, CO
In this video from the archives, Gangaji opens the meeting by asking you “What do you serve?” She reminds us that this life we are living is giving itself to something; what is it giving itself to? Only then can we see that we have a choice about unnecessary suffering. It’s clear from how the meeting unfolds that this particular group is intent on serving love!
“You have the opportunity for your life to be lived beyond ‘whys’ and ‘shoulds,’ beyond subservience to conditioning and beyond rebellion to conditioning. A life freely lived. Not based on ideas of what will serve your image of yourself. Not based on any idea at all.”
January 2 - Public Meeting with Gangaji
Recording of Gangaji's January Online Public Meeting.
We Are Not Here to Escape the Trouble
May 2, 2004
Yosemite, CA
When we choose to walk on a spiritual path, our first aspiration may be to transcend our problems or at least transcend the world’s problems. From the mundane to the catastrophic, problems are part of living a human life. So where is peace? What if true fulfillment is realized when we actually stop trying to transcend what Gangaji calls “trouble?”
“We are here to retreat from the trouble, so that actually when the trouble returns, we have a bigger capacity, a stronger foundation to meet whatever appears.”
February 19, 1995
Maui, Hawaii
In this meeting Gangaji points to the ending of all doubt and confusion. If you find that your mind still waffles between fully receiving the truth of your being and the conditioning of separateness, this video is especially for you. But first you must ask yourself, “How badly do I want the truth?” As Gangaji says, “You have to want it like a drowning person gasping for air. Truth is not a lover interested in casual affairs.”
“The window to truth is open wide. Break this window so that it can never close. Give up the choice to turn, to close, to deny. Then the window is open. You can't close it. Closing is finished. Closing no longer works. This is the secret.”
Let Yourself Be Found Weekend - Part II
"You are fully supported in not knowing, and in that not knowing, you are open."
In this selection of highlights from the second day of Gangaji's October 2021 Open Weekend Retreat, Gangaji speaks with people from all over the globe, uniting us in the losses and triumphs we experience as human beings, and bringing it all home to the realm of pure presence.
Let Yourself Be Found: Weekend with Gangaji
Each of us has the opportunity to give up fixing ourselves and directly discover what has always been whole and fulfilled, what has always been here, and is in truth, who you are. Gangaji's Weekend, Let Yourself be Found: How We Hide From What We Truly Want, October 2-3, 2021.
May 9, 1999, Marin County, CA
What does it mean to be open to yourself? This meeting with Gangaji features a series of conversations on the critical theme of openness, essential to our times. Openness to oneself, openness to others, openness versus protection, the effortlessly open heart.
“Much has been said and written about what self-realization is, what enlightenment is, and all the levels of enlightenment. What often gets lost in that discussion is what is the point of it all if you are not truly open? When you are open to yourself, to who you really are, you are open to every other.”