"This Was A KEPT SECRET By Monks!" - Stop Wasting Your Life & Unlock Your POTENTIAL | Sadhguru

Pain and Suffering

Overview: This section discusses the difference between pain and suffering, and how human beings are capable of suffering in ways that other creatures are not.

Pain vs. Suffering

• Pain is a physical self-preservation mechanism, while suffering is something that happens in the mind.

• Pain can be multiplied a thousand or million times over in the mind, leading to suffering.

• Human beings are capable of suffering from events that happened in the past, as well as events that may happen in the future.

• This is due to our vivid sense of memory and imagination.

Introduction to the Guest

Overview: This section introduces the guest of the show, a contemporary spiritual leader with millions of global followers.

Guest Introduction

• The guest is a mystic and New York Times bestselling author who has built one of the largest nonprofit organizations in the world.

• He has been invited to speak at prestigious international conferences, including the World Peace Summit, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum.

• His mission is to raise every human being to the peak of their potential, and to that aim he established the Isha Foundation.

• The Isha Foundation has implemented several large-scale human service projects designed to uplift rural areas, help with education reform, and promote environmental stewardship.

• He has written several profoundly transformational books, including Inner Engineering and Adi Yogi.

What is Human Potential?

Overview: This section discusses what the guest believes human potential is and how it differs from other forms of life.

Human Potential

• Human potential is the effort to become a full-fledged life, just like any other creature.

• Nature has drawn two lines for every other creature, within which they live and die.

• For humans, however, there is no top line, and hitting the ceiling of their life can lead to frustration and misery.

• Human life is unique in that it allows us to act consciously, without the compulsive instinctive ways of functioning that other creatures have.

• Human potential is therefore limitless, and is only limited by our courage to pursue it.

Time and Energy

Overview: This section discusses the importance of time and energy in achieving one's goals. It also explores how to become conscious of one's own compulsive cycles and break out of them.

Time is Rolling Away

• Time is rolling away for all of us at the same pace.

• If you sit it rolls away if you sleep it rolls away If you do something it goes away. If you don't do anything, it goes away. You're happier miserable it goes away.

• Time is running out for all of us.

• It's only the energy that you can do different things with if you bring your energies to a certain level of intensity and possibility.

Impactful Living

• What somebody does in 10 years, you may do it in one year this means if you live here 400 years it feels like in people's in impact that you're created. It feels like you lived here for a thousand years.

• Simply because you have managed your life energies in a certain way.

• For me a human being being impactful means how conscious have you become?

• This is very important because if you're in compulsive cycles then your energy gets wasted in so many things if you absorb people.

Compulsive Cycles

• In a day, let's say let's take 24 hours in that. Anyway, most people buy prescription in America. They sleep for eight hours.

• So eight hours means one-third of life is gone in the remaining two-thirds they have to eat they have to you know shower bathroom this that all this another two three hours gone.

• So literally 50% of life is gone daily basis just for basic maintenance of this life.

• 50% of the time is gone and maintenance.

• If you look at every single move that they may make with their body their thought process their emotions you will see a whole lot of it is happening in compulsive cycles.

Breaking Out of Compulsive Cycles

• Everybody wants a solution, but nobody wants to delve into the problem and see what is the nature of the problem that we have.

• The nature of the problem is like this why are we compulsive? What is it? That's compulsive about us.

• Compulsion means we are going to the same place again. And again, that means we're going in circles.

• The nature of physical existence in the universe is such whether you take an atom an individual atom or the cosmic space everything that's physical is always in cyclical moment.

• But you're supposed to stand on the platform and act. Right. Now you have become the platform. So somebody else will dance on you.

Actuating Potential

• Transferring my ability to do something into the actual thing.

• So the easy example I give people is what does what does impact mean for you leaving a footprint?

• Not quite so I have a very specific kind of impact that I'm trying to have which is to help people actuate their potential.

• So I think that a lot of people they are capable of extraordinary things and I think that to your point about joy.

Joy and Growth

Overview: This section discusses the relationship between joy and growth, and how to create a chemistry of blissfulness.

Joy is Foundational to Growth

• There is substantial medical and scientific evidence to show that when you're in a pleasant state of experience, your body and brain works at its best.

• If you have the fear of falling down and suffering, you will not go very high.

Creating a Chemistry of Blissfulness

• All human experience has a chemical basis to it.

• We have a technology with which you can create a chemistry of blissfulness.

• The privileges of the nature of your experience must be in your hand.

Avoiding Traps

• Encourage children not to be identified with parents, religion, racial and national prejudices.

• Cultivate a human being by giving them space and love.

• Don't raise an individual, cultivate them.

Cultivating Intrinsic Intelligence

Overview: This section discusses the importance of cultivating intrinsic intelligence in children, and how to avoid adopting beliefs that can lead to a lack of aliveness.

Influences on Children

• Need not be as in any way a child is not a legacy

• It's a life and it is an individual life

• Fear of outside influences such as social media or other people

Intrinsic Intelligence

• Finding its full potential

• Avoiding adopting beliefs

• Intrinsic intelligence is more important than being influenced by others

Knowledge vs. Conclusions

• Knowledge is not just conclusions

• Making conclusions leads to a lack of aliveness

• Even today we do not know one single atom in its entirety

Turning Inward

• The only way to make change is to turn inward

• Working on awareness and consciousness

• Instruments of experience are sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch

• Over 99% of the cosmos is empty

Bad Examples

• Example of not brushing teeth for three days

• Human predicament of sensory organs being outward bound

• Looking inward to scan oneself

• Dying in installments with conclusions

• Making a picture with only three pieces of a million piece jigsaw

Conclusion

• Cultivating keen observation to see what's wrong with oneself

• Room will know if you haven't brushed your teeth

• Experience of life is dependent on sensory organs

• Rolling eyeballs inward to scan oneself

• Bad example of not brushing teeth for three days

Belief and Dogma

Overview: This section discusses the importance of belief and dogma in people's lives, and how it can be used as an insurance policy. It also touches on the concept of sleep and how it relates to belonging and believing.

Belonging and Believing

• People are who they are because of what they believe and where they belong.

• Belonging is like an insurance policy, while involvement requires consciousness and awareness.

• Belonging means professing and identifying with something, which can lead to sleep and a partial death.

Not Knowing

• We don't know anything about this existence in its entirety, including a blade of grass or a single cell in our body.

• We can manipulate some things, but we don't know much about it.

• Turning off all the lights and walking around in the dark requires alertness and full wakefulness.

Belief

• The word belief means having concrete assumptions of which we know nothing about.

• Belief requires a group of people, while seekers are alone.

• Belief is not intrinsic to human intelligence, but seeking is.

Responsibility and Belonging

Overview: This section discusses the importance of responsibility and belonging in life, and how to remain open and joyful.

Responsibility

• Responsibility is the ability to respond to any situation that may arise.

• Everyone must make up their mind whether they want to retain or surrender their ability to respond.

Belonging

• Life is an openness, while death is a closure.

• People are killing themselves step by step by trying to find the certainty of death in the seamless process of life.

Focus

• The source of human experience is within oneself.

• If one understands the source of joy and misery within themselves, then joy is the obvious choice.

• This one fundamental thing has to get across to all human beings on this planet: your experience is entirely determined by you.

• To take charge of one's life, one must focus on something which has no relevance to them.

Understanding Pain and Suffering

Overview: This section discusses the importance of indiscriminate focus and attention, and how it relates to life and death. It also explores the difference between pain and suffering, and how pain can be a good thing in terms of self-preservation.

Indiscriminate Focus and Attention

• Have divided the universe into important and unimportant.

• When your attention and involvement is indiscriminate, the universe opens up to you.

• Indiscriminate focus and attention is necessary for spiritual growth.

Pain vs. Suffering

• Pain is physiological, while suffering is mental.

• When you close doors, you are dying in installments.

• Pain can be a good thing in terms of self-preservation.

• Talk to me about your motorcycle accident and having to have your calf served back together, which is without anesthesia.

• The notion of the difference between pain and suffering is very useful.

• Wherever there is no pain, people are messing with it like crazy.

• In spite of so much pain, if there was no pain, almost everybody would have cut themselves off in the name of fashion.

Understanding Pain and Suffering

Overview: This section discusses the concept of pain and suffering, and how it can be multiplied in the mind. It also looks at how modern society has made survival easier than ever before, but has led to an increase in depression, anxiety, and suicide. Finally, it examines how human beings can turn their intelligence against themselves by sending contradictory messages to their bodies.

Pain and Suffering

• Pain that happens in the body can be multiplied in the mind, depending on one's capability or stupidity.

• Most people suffer not only from current events, but also from past events and future events they imagine.

Modern Society

• Survival has become easier than ever before, leaving people with more time to mess themselves up.

• Many people do not know how to manage their biochemistry without physical activity.

• In 2017, 18,600 children below 18 years of age committed suicide, 7,200 of which were below 15 years of age.

• Society's goals and ideas of success are driving children to the point of suicide.

Turning Intelligence Against Oneself

• When a person is miserable, they are sending a message to every cell in their body that they don't want to live.

• The body is confused when it receives contradictory messages from the person.

• Every cell in the body has an enormous sense of memory and intelligence, and will act according to the messages it receives.

• Human beings can turn their intelligence against themselves by sending contradictory messages to their bodies.

What is Inner Engineering?

Overview: In this section, Sadhguru explains what inner engineering is and how it can help people interact with him. He also explains why it is important to take an inward step in order to find solutions.

What is Inner Engineering?

• Inner engineering is a process that helps people take an inward step in order to find solutions.

• It is a science and technology for inner well-being, which has been ignored by most cultures.

• The most affluent countries are not necessarily the happiest, as evidenced by the fact that 70% of the population in the United States is on prescription medication.

How Can People Interact With Sadhguru?

• People don't have to interact with Sadhguru directly, but can learn from him.

• Talks will bring clarity, but solutions will come only when people take a proper inward step.

• Inner engineering has been simplified and broken into five different pieces, so that people can experience it in small doses.

What is the Impact Sadhguru Wants to Have on the World?

• Sadhguru wants to make an impactful presence in the world, rather than just being a significant presence.

• He realized at age 25 that he wanted to make a difference in the world.

• He believes that if people capture a substantial amount of life, their very presence will become a significant life.

Ecstasy and Blissful Failure

Overview: In this section, the speaker talks about his experience of bursting with ecstasy and how he realized that if he didn't mess with his physiological and psychological process, ecstasy was the only way to be. He also talks about his plan to make the world ecstatic and how he has touched over 500 million people in 37 years.

Realizing Ecstasy is the Only Way to Be

• Naturally, I'm bursting with ecstasy and every cell in my body drips ecstasy.

• Thought initially I'm going off my rocker

• Then again and again when I saw over a period of six to eight weeks

• When I saw if I just close my eyes, I just burst into ecstatic states

• So I clearly realized If I don't mess with my physiological and psychological process, ecstasy is the only way to be. Nothing to be done. You don't have to do anything when I realized this.

Making the World Ecstatic

• Sat down and actually planned on that day. The world's population was 5.6 billion people.

• Made a plan in two and a half years time that I will make the world ecstatic

• No fool like a young fool, you know

• Now It's been 37 years Not two and a half years Well, people say we have touched over 500 million people or so

• Don't say whoa. You don't walk my failures

• Yeah, I guess this was my idea of humanity seven point six billion people

Beautiful World

• Beautiful does not mean just a beautiful view of the ocean or something else beautiful means Human life here is pleasant

• Within every human being the question is not about what I wear what I Drive where I live, but how I am within myself

• See what we can do in the world is a question of times in which time of history we exist accordingly we do things

• If we were here hundred years ago, we wouldn't be recording all this stuff. All right, we would be doing something different

• But human experience is constant

• Whichever generation you are you can either be blissed-out or misery always forever it has been so and it will be so so

• What we can do in the world is subject to many realities of the times

• But how we can be within ourselves is always a possibility

• So what is always a possibility must be manifested whether you will run faster than mr Bolt or not whether you will climb Mount Everest or not. This is not the point

• those things are subject to individual tastes and individual likes and dislikes but

• Will your experience of life on this planet be pleasant or not? At least this one thing?

• We must determine that every human beings experience of life on this planet is pleasant that much we must do and it's doable

• That is incredible