Sadhguru
Sadhguru
Inner Engineering
Enormous potential and possibilities are destroyed in your life by the fear of suffering.
Do not just think about making money – think about living well. The most important aspect of living well is doing what you truly care for.
Stillness is the highest level of intensity. When there is stillness within you, your body, mind, and energies will be exuberantly intense.
If you apply only your intellect, ignoring other aspects of intelligence, you will get confused about every little thing in life.
Spiritual process means your life is not driven by your physical nature. Life’s intrinsic intelligence needs to find expression.
Water is not a commodity but life-making material. Two thirds of your body is water; being conscious of this fact is vital to human survival.
Choose something that causes pleasantness within you – whether it is the breeze, the breath, water, food, or anything for that matter. Try to stay with this experience of pleasantness, if only for a few seconds to begin with, without thoughts and emotions. Slowly, you will shift to the other side of the mirror.
What you experience now is just a reflection of the mind. Reality is on the other side. The other side is not a product of time and space. Everything is here and now. The entire cosmos is right here. It is a simple process, but because you are so busy with your own psychological drama, life is completely missed. Because it is missed, life is punishing people with repetitive cycles.
Once you are here, the most important thing is to have a powerful experience of life. Right now, you know everything except life because you are only looking at the mirror of the mind as it reflects the world, not at the basis of all experience within you. With every inhalation, every exhalation, with every step you take, when you sit down or stand up, when you eat or drink – with everything, there is an opportunity to watch a certain pleasantness spread in the system. Not on the sensory level – a much deeper experience.
Most people only know sensual pleasantness. They are not conscious of the pleasantness of something much deeper happening within themselves. The fundamental idea of doing closed-eye processes, any kind of meditation, is to lower the input for the mirror. If there is no input for longer periods of time, the mind will not reflect anything. Then it will be easier to get to the other side.