Healing The Ego Is Not Self-Realization

“This is not psychotherapy. This is not anti-psychotherapy. This has nothing to do with fixing you. This has to do with discovering fully and completely what is always here and was always here in the worst moments, in the best moments.” In this monologue recorded during a recent retreat at Fallen Leaf Lake, Gangaji delineates the crucial difference between psychotherapy and self-inquiry and the distinct purposes they serve in our lives.

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Eloquent, entertaining & so
Informative thank you. Wise words :-)

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Any time spent with Gangaji’s perspectives is time well spent. This talk did not discuss, ani highly recommend it. 💛🙏🌟

This is something to behold, this talk. Close to astonishing, and a touch discomfiting, even.
Here, in just minutes, a great sage gets right to the “really big deal”:
“The who and what you really are.”
Our culture doesn’t seem to want us to really know this, she observes. It is obscured, so that fanciful stories are told to us about who we are, or who we are not.
And then?
Then we tell ourselves these same distortions, these delusions. We are left with false narratives that we create, and, in doing so, the obstruction that is self-inflicted.

And we believe those narratives.

And, in doing so, she explains, who and what we really are remains invisible to us—until, as Gangaji and her teacher tell us—we stop. We lose hope.
We let go of everything.
“Let go of future…Let go of past.”
Realize that we are none of the layers and layers of programming, of conditioning, of self-deception.

“It really IS that simple,” she says, with a knowing smile that you can hear. Epic in its simplicity, yet almost terrifying in its absoluteness. THAT is what keeps most of us from self-discovery, from the “inquiry” that she celebrates.

What an inestimable gift it is to hear and to try to understand this incredible soul’s wisdom.
Deepest thanks for making it available!

Awesome, thank you