July 28 – The Myths of Enlightenment

What is enlightenment really? Who or what is awake? As we examine what we imagine “enlightenment” will give us, we have the opportunity to tell the deepest truth about what we really want and what we are willing to give for that.

August 4 – Call Off the Search

Week two focuses on the essential step into awakening—calling off the search for some object or event to deliver fulfillment. In one simple, radical moment of stopping, it is possible to discover the truth of your nature as that fulfillment being sought everywhere else.

August 11 – The Vehicle of Direct Experience

Misidentification is the root of unnecessary suffering. Gangaji offers the vehicle of direct experience to penetrate the storyline of our lives into the experience of our being. When we are ready to tell the truth of our direct experience, rather than continuing our story of suffering, we live freely and authentically.

August 18 – Recognizing the Strategies of Ego

Gangaji takes the group through an examination of the three basic movements of ego; the habits of mind that when followed, betray our essential, awake nature

August 25 – The Spin into Hell

Much of our time can be spent caught in overwhelming spirals of fear, anger and emotional hysteria. This week we examine the nature of human emotion to discover what is revealed when we are willing to face what we avoid. What would our lives be like if we stopped both denying and indulging the waves of human emotion?

September 1 – The Alchemy of Surrender

The primal experience of letting go is meeting death.  Whether it is our physical death or the death of who we imagine ourselves to be, or the death of what we think our life circumstance should be, surrender brings us home to ourselves. In an instant of surrender, we recognize the vast and uncontrollable love that is our true nature.

September 8 – Wait and See

Often after a profound experience of awakening we can fall into the trap of spiritual materialism: seeking more and better states of mind. This habit can pull us away from the simple truth of ourselves, bringing us back into a pattern of unnecessary suffering. In this meeting, we explore one of the most essential teachings Gangaji ever received from her beloved teacher, “Wait and see;” three words that can radically change your life.

September 15 – Choose What Has Chosen You

Once we recognize our true inner nature, how do we remain true to that recognition? What does it mean to be at peace in our daily lives? Here we examine the nature of being vigilant in ordinary human existence.