Windmill Video 6[ | ]
Unclear what the puzzle represents exactly
This solution unlocks a video of Gangaji (born Merle Antoinette Roberson) speaking to a crowd.
Transcript[ | ]
Gangaji
So it's absolutely simple what I have to say to you. It's what my teacher said to me. And I'm still deeply discovering the reverberation of that. And it's simply, "Stop looking for what you want."
Not cynically stop looking for what you want, because there's a way of stopping looking for what you want in resignation and cynicism and closing down. But innocently, openly, stop looking for what you want, in this moment, not tomorrow when you have it; but in this moment, to take one moment, whatever it is you want, however mundane or profound, and just stop looking for it. And you will find more than what you could ever want. Because more than what can be wanted is already who you are.
Too simple to be grasped, but absolutely, completely realizable. If, and it is a huge 'if' of course, you are willing to give up your hope that what you want will be found in the next thought, or the next activity, or the next day, or the next man, or the next woman, or the next teaching, or the next experience. So that's huge. That's the challenge. And I've blessedly travelled to Australia to challenge you in that direction. That directionless direction.
It's so simple that it has to be said over and over because it just slips right by the mind and if it's said over and over and in enough ways and then not said ... it can just be revealed. Not as something new, but as something absolutely fresh. Not new but fresh. Who you are is not new, but it is always fresh. Who you think you are is old and dead. We just keep trying to think, think it a little better, squeeze some life.
Is that clear?
It is? Because that's really the basis of what I have to say. It's not a teaching. It's not a belief system. It's not a way to live your life. It's not a 'should stop'. It's not an "if you stop, you will be rich and famous and universally loved and never have a sad moment." None of that, I promise.
If you're willing to investigate for yourself without believing it, or learning it, or hoping to get something from it, just a pure investigation out of the natural curiosity of the human mind, just to investigate for yourself, "What is here when I stop trying to get anything?"
"And how much of that is here? And where does that begin and where does that end?" And then the question, "Am I willing to trust that?" Then the challenges get very big. But we'll get to that later.
Any questions about what I just said? Want me to say it again?
You already are everything you want, only maybe not in the way you imagine what you want. And it's that imagination itself that keeps you from discovering that you already are everything you want.
So if you just take this evening as an experiment to give up any imagination, any image of what you need to be totally fulfilled - just give it up! It's just an image, just a thought. Maybe a spiritual thought, maybe a worldly thought, a relationship thought, a career thought, just give it up. And directly discover what's here unthought, unimagined.
How's that? Good. Good.
Literary context[ | ]
Gangaji hails from a school that is roughly the same as Rupert Spira's nondualism, but as Gangaji has said, the way Spira and other approach nondualism is in a very dualistic way. They talk about it in a way to set it apart from dualism, which makes it very hard to actually accept the teachings. Gangaji instead teaches to let go of the things that you currently find important, that are adding nothing to your life and that don't make you happy. The idea here is that once you start letting go of these temporary problems, you are open to the truths that are out there, even though Gangaji doesn't explicitly teach those things.
In this video we see her stressing that it's not a transaction or a promise. Being at peace is something that is always available to you, regardless of the circumstances. She often describes the silence that comes from stopping the search for answers. The secret to happiness is one that is already inside you if you're willing to accept it.
Relation to the six themes of the Witness[ | ]
This video headlines Theme 6: Acceptance.
Gangaji teaches the art of silence and acceptance. The message is always to "stop looking", which is also the way that this theme manifests in the rest of the game. Gangaji states that we are always so preoccupied with gathering more of everything and our current problems, with the idea that once we solved that problem we can be happy, that we completely overlook the fact that we can already be happy and our search for happiness is actually hindering us in finding it.
Gangaji tells us to step back, stop looking at the problem and actually see what is there.