Human suffering and pain
Pain is good – it is part of self preservation. It happens in your body. What is not good is human suffering. Suffering happens in your mind. Suffering is that you take the pain in your mind and multiply it thousand or million times and suffer it a million times over. Something may happen today and 10 years ago you still can suffer. What triggers this suffering is not the pain itself but the vivid sense of memory and fantastic imagination.
Your potential
If we are speaking about human potential, it is not about the peak it is about the trajectory. Our life is a certain amount of time and energy. Time is running about whatever you do. If you are happy or miserable, if you are sleeping or working. So it is only the energy that you can do different things with. Human potential then means how conscious have you become.
There are many ways the world will affect you. Sometimes the world will go with your desires and sometimes it will go against you.
You must raise only cattle, you don’t raise human beings. You need to cultivate a human being and give it space. Our children don’t need to look like as, think like as and not be like as in any way.
Responsibility is the ability to respond.
Human suffering & Compulsion
Compulsion means we are going in circles – doing the same things over and over. Compulsiveness is not a bad thing though because everything goes through cycles – galaxy, nature, human body.
Joy vs growth – joy came first as you need to first be joyful and then you body will be at the best state to help you in what you want to achieve.
Problems and solutions
50% of you time is gone through the maintenance (sleeping, cleaning, eating). Everybody wants a solution and reach their goal but nobody wants to deal with the nature of the problem.
Everything comes from within. If I thing my problem is you – then there is no solution for my life and the human suffering starts over again. If I understand that the source of my joy and my misery is within me then it will be just a choice. Your experience is entirely determined by you.
What happens withing you is 100% your control. If you are not in control, you are an accident of life and anxiety will occur. It is the same as with driving. If you are not in control an accident may happen.
Be open. People constantly judge what they like and what the don’t like. That way you may end up liking 3 things in the whole universe. Be open, that means to be alive. Don’t be half alive. That means you are torturing yourself and you are sharing it with everybody else.
If you see your life as a race – what will be the finish line? Right now if you send a message to your body “I am feeling miserable”, you are sending the message: I don’t want to live. Your body has its own inteligence and should work for you.
What is next
If inspiration is what you want, we can talk. It will bring some clarity. Solutions will come only if you take a proper inward step. The teachings can be found on Sadhguru website.
There are many things that you cannot affect. But there is one thing that you can directly choose: Will this experience on this planet be pleasurable or not?
