Gangaji Podcasts

Being Yourself | Hopelessly Lost on the Seeker's Path

"If you are really, hopelessly lost, instantly you are found." This month's episode addresses that moment on the spiritual path, where all striving for enlightenment, all seeking of peace and freedom culminates in feeling at "the end of our rope."   Gangaji speaks directly to the possibility that even a moment of despair or desperation has something to reveal. What if being "hopelessly lost" is actually a doorway to freedom?     What happens when the seeking falls away, and the hope of "getting something" dissolves?     If you'd like to explore further, you're warmly invited to: Learn more about Gangaji the With Gangaji forum and live meetings See upcoming meetings and events  Visit the website for more resources  https://gangaji.org

Being Yourself | The True Fulfillment Within Nothing

"Can you find a problem when the desire to attain anything is given up?"   In our search for happiness and fulfillment on the spiritual path, we usually imagine it will be found in some desired state or experience or circumstance that we apparently lack. We may tell ourselves many varied and different stories about who we are, but as this conversation reveals, it is only who we think we are. What is possible is to examine the stories you are telling yourself and recognize that true fulfillment can be effortlessly discovered in an instant of stopping, of conscious rest. Fulfillment is realized in "nothing happening at all."    Learn more about Gangaji and her upcoming events.   

Being Yourself | The Trap Door into Consciousness

"There is conditioning in our mind streams, but what we are drawn by, what has brought us here, is closer and deeper than any conditioning." How is it possible to penetrate the conditioning of our minds, the play of ego and superego, and discover our true identity? What if we just give up the game entirely? In this exchange, Gangaji deconstructs the egoic habits of judging ourselves and others demonstrating how an egoic trap can become the open door into consciousness. You can support this podcast and other programs of the Gangaji Foundation with your donation. Learn more about what your gift will do to and the impact you can have in sharing this invitation to peace with men and women living in prison and seekers around the world. Learn more/Give Learn more about Gangaji, her complete schedule, monthly online program.

Being Yourself | The Surrender to Love One Another

"The real challenge is to include all, every aspect of yourself. Even the aspect that hates can be loved." When we take a spiritual path, we may be seeking our enlightenment or our awakening. But perhaps what is truly wanted cannot be discovered in any spiritual technique or acquisition or achievement, but rather in surrender, in the surrender to love one another.  As Gangaji shares in this episode, "if we are beginning in love then there is really nowhere to go but here." Listen to more episodes of Being Yourself and learn more about Gangaji, her program for incarcerated men and women, Freedom Inside, and her schedule of retreats and online meetings at gangaij.org  Support Gangaji's podcasts my making a donation. You will be sending a message of peace to the world!

Being Yourself | Embracing Our "Stupidity"

“We have overlooked what was actually innocent and was called stupid. We lost our stupidity and in that we lost our heart. Yet, we are haunted by the fear that we are still actually stupid.” We fear being stupid or foolish and try to be brilliant and clever. It is an aspect of our human drive for survival. In this episode of Being Yourself, Gangaji speaks to the unnecessary suffering that can be created through the mind’s power to distinguish, delineate, and classify with ever greater subtlety. Without making that power wrong or bad, what if for just one moment, we give up that power and embrace our stupidity? What might be discovered?