The Mind in Service to Love

The Right Use of the Mind

What Do You Serve?

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.” 

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.”

Window to Truth

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.” 

 

Naturally Open

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.”

The Nectar of Eternal Being

March 26th, 1999
Denmark, Australia

There is a great secret that beings throughout time have announced, the secret of the extraordinary treasure, the treasure of the nectar of eternal life. Human beings, in all cultures, have attempted to create maps and signposts to find that treasure. And yet the treasure remains just out of reach. You can smell it, you can sense it, but you just can’t quite find it... Eventually the great day comes when you set all maps aside.

"You are always looking ahead or you are always looking behind to see where you have come. But what goes overlooked is where you are."

You Can't Find What Isn't Lost

November 21, 2006
Perth, Australia

Many people are drawn to a spiritual search because they have a sense that something is eluding them, that something essential is missing. What they are really looking for is themselves. You may perceive that you have lost something, but how is that possible? You are right here. What you are looking for is already here.

"We are so conditioned to define ourselves that we skip right over the moment of pure spaciousness, or simply being."

Great Love

April 10, 1995,
Boulder, CO

This meeting was pulled from the archives by special request, the central topics being “love” and “desire.” Here is an opportunity to dive directly into the deepest recesses of your own heart and to inquire: Is love something that can be gained? Can love ever truly be lost? Ultimately, as Gangaji invites us to here, the greatest surrender of all is to the great love that is always present, the love that you already are.

“We have either been very afraid of our desires or we have been very in love with them. But if you will simply dive into the very core of desire itself, you will discover the limitless, boundaryless bliss of being—the actual source of love.”

At Peace in the Unknown

October 24, 2001
Ashland, OR

At this moment in time there are huge and apparent unknowns—politically, culturally, and globally—just as was true when this meeting with Gangaji occurred six weeks after 9/11. In this video, Gangaji encourages us to “take that unknown-ness in, and recognize the indefinable fulfillment that is unknowable.”

“In any moment of facing the unknown, you can simply stop, be still, and open your mind lucidly to the fears you have kept covered, just out of sight. Then when you speak with someone who agrees with you or disagrees with you, there is something deeper you are bringing to the table. There is something alive that welcomes all, and knows itself as all.”