"Effortlessly" that is the critical word in this conversation. Thank you Master Gangaji.

This is the greatest video I have ever seen

I never even know what she's getting at, just love her voice.

It has taken me years to grasp this concept but it has been worth it...................

This is the most concise and practical Satsang excerpt I've ever heard. Thank you!

It's a silent retreat... Thank you and namaste gangaji

Going into breath awareness anywhere anytime...worked for me.

All I do is navigate my way through the world... Doing my best, moment-to-moment, to endure the least amount of suffering as possible... And I keep doing that every day, just waiting to die. There's no joy, no hope, no happiness in my life. It's just pain and trauma and survival and misery. I live in poverty. I am ashamed of my life. I have severe (c)PTSD. My heart is shattered. Rage and grief consume every cell of my being. I pray to heal from, and be released from, the prison of: - poverty - aches and pains - an inflexible mind and body - diabetes - PTSD flashbacks - (c)PTSD - suicidal depression - homicidal rage - grief - guilt - regret - loneliness - heartache/heartbreak - repression/suppression - soul rape - a silenced voice - a lack of boundaries - perpetual aloneness - obesity - trauma - obsession/rumination - the past - spiritual attacks and curses 😊

trying to catch your mind is like trying to catch your elbow with your hand ( same side of body ). just let it come to rest. sitting still and closing eyes helps. it takes practice. if you focus on something sublimely beautiful, it will help slow down the mind. the only sublime beauty that is permanent and imperishable is found within. inner light, sound, smell, and taste. when the mind becomes completely still, meditation begins ( samadhi ). Peace of mind brings incredible joy.

The warm tingly feeling you get is from you, not from her.

Sums up Avaita Vedanta . I have great love for her.

thank YOU!!!!! finally! thank YOU

@brummiedaz Continue being kind, don't sacrifice your freedom because of what others think. Live in the present as much as you can, enjoy nature, go to the beach, just relax, and slowly but surely you will get better.

the opening statement is worth the price of admission alone

It's the trauma that causes us to shrink up inside, to want to hide, to die, to be alone. (Because there we at least won't get hurt, again.) Now what? One day at a time. One step in front of the other. At the end of a year, you would have done 365 positive, proactive things toward healing... Maybe it's time to call out for help? I don't know. All I know is I did! To whom? You know. We know. Think back to when you were 5, or 6... (We all know who to call out to if we aren't completely obliterated by then.) We don't see it when we are in it. But my own experience tells me He is there... And ready to help when we call out. Please do, if you haven't. You are loved.

did I hear that.... my god amazing...thanks gangaji...

I agree with you. You cannot stop your mind by telling it to stop...it has to stop naturally and the only way to do that is by choiceless awareness of the chatter, by observation of the thoughts without judgement. J. Krishnamurti

Like this lady.

which is something we could all try doing. A wonderful teacher.

She made me laugh. I enjoyed her delivery. Like fresh running water ahh

She is wonderful!!

@presentlightoftruth I love it, spoken with true compassion

thanks Gangaji for lessons i realy appreciate

Nice. I needed that.

I like this lady

One of the primary uses of having a mantra is to redirect the random thoughts to the mantra and avoid unnecessary internal dialogue. Gradually the mind will fall into silence ! Have a mantra that also invokes powerful positive 'feelings' !

You are simply beautiful

THAT HAD SIMPLY BEEN THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER EVER HEARD!!!!! WOW!!!! thank you for posting..Beautiful!!!!

in reply to max42957 Although thoughts arising have a biological basis, it doesn´t mean that mind cannot be stilled. There is lots of meditation-research, which prove that the brain activity changes with meditation when measured with EEG - it can even slow down to the delta-waves, which normally are prevalent in deep sleep. So, it´s perfectly possible to be quiet, and be conscious & aware at the same time. Requires practice though, usually...

@dbviewer5 That is soo true!!

The Witness

@dseer13 actually it does. just. like. that.

yeah baby

But I magnify the thoughts of those Around me???? And they can hear their thoughts louder, what is that

cool

thats my beef with the spiritual community....over identification to that aspect of one's life. to me its simply practice. becoming awake and staying awake takes effort but it is effort which doesnt require obsession. be awake because life is worth it. seeing through the spiritual lens isnt spiritual it's a distortion and obstical. to truely be awake means able to aprciate fully all the flovors which arise. As Dogen said "even enlightenment falls away". and then and only then will there be true freedom

Don Juan told Carlos the same thing re / the inner dialogue. "Just CUT it"!

Say the truth the "personal identity" really enjoys the talking it gives "PLEASURE" and we do thousands of things for this thing - "PLEASURE" "PLEASURE" "PLEASURE"........ when "pleasure" itself changes its costume to "pain" and it becomes unbearable we go to a spiritual master ,and that's why you and me are here.

Is that Werner Herzog?

@dbviewer5 true dat!

@coyniegirl Thoughts themselves are not really the problem, letting them control you is. P.S. You may disagree with Gangagi, but keep it civil ok?

She's very pretty.

I am nuts too I guess. And you know what, I wouldn't have it any other way.

Those who can teach, teach. Those who can't just critique those who can on youtube.

This woman is dead on with almost everything she says.

I wonder if we even want to stop the mind chatter? I think it more important to simply be aware of it .... and detached from it. ie: to not Believe the thoughts as they arise .... but to hold them in awareness.

I don't understand this keeping quiet, is Gangaji addressing the self or the ego when she says to remain quiet? I am not my ego, so I cant be quiet in that sense, and if she is talking to the self, then is that not always silent?

@AzoutLawz2010 Oh, and I already know that the "Be still..." is from the Psalms and are not Jesus' words.

@squamish4244 there is no you that can think or do anything we are being lived

it doesnt work.

@AzoutLawz2010 Yes but you never really understood it, probably because it is actually so incredibly simple and you were looking for something more complicated. You were lookng for a bigger book with more words. You needed an ideology, a set of beliefs, a savior. I guess you found that in the Christian beliefs and that is wondeful for you. For many of us, Gangaji is a beautiful, loving teacher who points towards truth just as Christ did.

@AzoutLawz2010 let's make an experiment, would you? Believe her for 10 minutes, trust her for this time. And see what happens within you. After these 10 minutes you go back to your life, what d'you think? I'm not imposing anything on you. Of course it depends on you what you're gonna do. Will you go for it? Regards.

i have a mind. this idea of a person is just another story

@presentlightoftruth jajajajaajajaaja

She is cuter with her hair done that way.

@presentlightoftruth :)))))))))) xDDD !!!!!

read more on the subject and you will find you are misinformed.

Who is silencing who's mind? hehe. Whoever is doing the "silencing" is highly suspicious!

Good for nothing advice.

No, I feel sad for the people duped by her and her husband. They are both living like lords by selling an enlightenment they don't even live themselves. Gangaji has a great act, I can see why well-meaning people can be fooled by it. The saddest part isn't even the money people waste on this high-living charlatan, it's the impossible pedestal she allows her followers to put her on. Go out and do good things, stop fawning over this actress who pretends she's super-humanly enlightened.

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