What Is Your Life About?

By on July 14, 2009 in Spirituality

We are all afraid of death. Yet when we meet this fear and clearly face the reality of our personal end, we have a supreme opportunity to discover what our lives are being lived for. When we don’t flinch from the reality of death, then the inevitability of our end serves to focus our attention on what is truly important to us. Death becomes the ally rather than the enemy that haunts us.

 

Take a few moments to imagine you are in the last hours of your lifetime, and look back over your life. What has it honestly, essentially been about so far?

From the perspective of the end, why in fact has it been important to you to survive? If you made or didn’t make a name for yourself, when the last hours are here, what was your life really about? When all possibilities for success and fame, failure and disgrace are finished, what is your life really about?

These questions are relevant for you now, before you are in the last hours of your lifetime. If we wait until the end of our lives to ask the most important questions of our lives, we waste our precious gift of time. A gift that is over too soon anyway.

When we are willing to meet our own death, we gain strength and resolve to live our lives in ways that support what is truly, finally important to us. We decide how our lives will be used, and what they will contribute to. We stop obeying others’ notions of what should be important to us and find out for ourselves what is important.



The responsibility that results from discovering what you want your life to stand for is not burdensome. It is light with the spaciousness of freedom. A free life is free no matter what the apparent constraints may be, and these questions can be asked whatever your particular circumstances are in this very moment.



If you want your life to be a beacon of love, where do you find that love? 

If you want your life to be an avocation of peace, how do you live?

If you want to know the Truth, what can stop you?

What do you want your life to be about from this moment on?

What supports that?

 

Gangaji is holding meetings and retreats this summer in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Berlin, Baden-Baden, London, Dublin, and Dorset. Read more about Gangaji’s events and catalog of books and videos online.

 

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About gangaji

Gangaji shares a simple message-This is an invitation to shift your allegiance from the activities of your mind to the eternal presence of your being. Born in Texas in 1942, Gangaji grew up in Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Mississippi in 1964, she married and had a daughter. In 1972, she moved to San Francisco where she began exploring deeper levels of her being. She took Bodhisattva vows, practiced Zen and Vipassana meditation, helped run a Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Center, and had a career as an acupuncturist in the San Francisco Bay area. Despite her successes, Gangaji continued to experience a deep and persistent longing for fulfillment. She pursued many paths to change her life including relationship. Motherhood, political activism, career, and spiritual practice, but even the greatest of her successes ultimately came up short. In the wake of her disillusionment, she made a final prayer for true help. In 1990, the answer to her prayer came unexpectedly, taking her to India and to the meeting that would change everything. There on the banks of the river Ganga, she met Sri H.W.L. Poonja, also known as Papaji, who opened the floodgates of self-recognition. In this meeting, Gangaji’s personal story of suffering ended and the promise of a true life began to flower and unfold. Today, Gangaji travels the world speaking to seekers from all walks of life. A teacher and author, she shares her direct experience of the essential message she received from Papaji and offers it to all who want to discover a true and lasting fulfillment. Through her life and words, she powerfully articulates how it is really possible to discover the truth of who you are and to be true to that discovery. We invite you to read The End of All Excuses by Gangaji an in-depth article by Gangaji about her spiritual path and essential experiences.
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One Response to What Is Your Life About?

  1. Barbara Shepard July 15, 2009 at 7:06 am #

    What a miracle that we even have the freedom to ask these questions!

    My life is about the realization of Love, and surrender to That. My prayer is that I be used by That. I am filled with gratitude for this opportunity.

    Thy will be done……May ALL beings Awaken