Wisdom on Overcoming Unnecessary Suffering in Life | Sadhguru EP 355

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1:23It's like wearing your clothes. Right now, these are my clothes. See, I wear loose clothes. So that always you're aware this is my clothing, this is not me. Suppose I wear skin-tight nylon clothes. After some time, I don't know which is my clothing, which is my skin. Do you have a space between you and what you have created? Or are you stuck with it? That's the important thing. If you are stuck with it, you will do crazy things thinking you're doing good things. If you're held on to the identity, if you're attached to it. It will wrap you up. Once you create it and leave it, it will just wrap you up unless you're conscious.

2:03Sure. If you do this practice, which we call as Shambhavi, if you sit here, your body is here, your mind is out there, what is you is elsewhere. Once there is a little space between you and your body, between you and your mind, this is it. One thing is there's no suffering within you anymore, because suffering happens only two ways, physical suffering, mental suffering. Do you know any other kind of suffering? Once there is a little distance, this is the end of suffering. And above all, this is the end of all identity. How do you distance the suffering? You don't distance the suffering. You distance yourself from your own body and your mind.

2:43This is what the practice is about. How to distance means this. See, right now, there are life energies. See, when you were a five-year-old child, how much were you identified with your body? I think I was probably exploring my body, trying to run around. Not at five, you were not exploring any body. My body? I think I was like running and jumping and I was like being active. That's it. You were using it, but you were not identifying it. Every day it's changing. You can't even identify with it. Right, right. Right? Yes. Your identity with the body got strengthened when you became an adolescent.

3:15Okay. That is when, when hormones started poisoning your mind. When your hormones hijacked your intelligence, suddenly you lost your sense of who you are. Yeah. Otherwise, you as a life were far more exuberant than your body can ever be. Yes or no? Yes. When a child laughs, when a child jumps, when a child does these things, I'm still like this. I'm saying you will see body is just a thing to use. He's not that. That's not the prime thing. The same was true with your intellect and your mind also, isn't it, when you were a child? So now... You're curious, you're exploring, you're... Yes, because it was changing and growing.

3:57You're questioning everything. You… you real… you… not that you consciously realize, but you know this is not it, because your exuberance is beyond that. If you keep your exuberance of life like that today, very clearly you know what is you, what is your body, what is your mind. When I say what is you, let us not give a definition to that, but your body we can define. It's a defined physical form. So we can define this. How did this happen? Just the food that you've eaten, isn't it? This is a heap of food. Right. What you call as my mind is a heap of impressions. What you gather, whatever you gather can be yours, but can never ever be you.

4:40What makes up you? Why are you asking me? See, this is the problem. You want to get life into a definition. you can only define that which has distinct physical boundaries. Anything which doesn't have a physical boundary, you cannot define that, isn't it?

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6:20Thank you.