“Most people come to spiritual teachings to add to their accumulation of power, but what is offered here is the possibility to recognize what is untouched by any power. That which is free of all power and free of all powerlessness is the truth of who you are.”

There are many powers within the human capacity, but the power that particularly captivates and entangles us is the power of our mind. In this selection of monologues and interactions, Gangaji helps to expose the common strategies of the mind’s power employed for comfort and survival: possession, denial, memory, and projection. While these powers may be at times appropriate for our relative existence, she clearly illustrates how they cannot deliver the indestructible peace and fulfillment that is untouched by any power.

“The truth is more simple than can be practiced. Suffering is very complex, and for it to continue, it must be practiced.”

This compilation of monologues and interactions explores the core issues of suffering and addiction. Gangaji clarifies how ignoring the truth of oneself is the root of perpetuating unnecessary suffering. She demonstrates that the discovery of inherent peace lies in the conscious investigation of the impulse to avoid pain and grasp for pleasure. The choice to continue to suffer or not is always present. In the willingness to unravel the stories of victimization, to illuminate the habits of denial, and to expose the practice of desire, the bondage to suffering and addiction can be broken. This mature investigation finally leads one to ask the essential question, “Who is suffering?”

“What I have to offer is very simple. It has nothing to do with acquiring any special powers or any state of mind. It is about recognizing what is already permanently here, in every moment, every situation, and every state of mind, and yet is ungraspable by the mind.”

What is present in the midst of any thought and when every thought in the mind is stilled? In this collection of monologues and interactions, Gangaji addresses a dilemma that the mind cannot resolve: “the truth of one’s being is not graspable by any power of the mind.” Gangaji brings lightness and humor to exposing the mind’s incessant tendencies to acquire, define, and imitate what is already inherently one’s true nature. Here is the possibility of seeing that everything that can be grasped by the mind is impermanent, has a birth and a death, but that which is eternal, the truth of who one is, is always permanently here.