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Suffering

22 Jul 2013 17 Comments

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MASTER'S WORDS

Sadhguru looks at the

mechanics and cause of
human suffering, and
gives us a tool to move out
of the “garbage bin” our mind is.

Sadhguru: There are two ways people

can suffer. Generally, people think in
terms of physical suffering and mental
suffering. Physical suffering could be
caused in different ways but 90% of
human suffering is mental, which is
caused within ourselves. People create
suffering for themselves everyday –
suffering anger, fear, hatred, jealousy,
insecurity and so many other things. This
is the maximum suffering in the world.

The Mechanics of
Suffering
Why is humanity suffering? Let us
understand the mechanics of suffering.
Today morning, did you see that the sun
came up wonderfully well? The flowers
blossomed, no stars fell down, the galaxies
are functioning very well. Everything is in

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order. The whole cosmos is happening
wonderfully well today but just a worm of
a thought worming through your head
makes you believe it is a bad day today.
Suffering is happening essentially because
most human beings have lost perspective
as to what this life is about. Their
psychological process has become far
larger than the existential process, or to
put it bluntly, you’ve made your petty
creation far more important than the
Creator’s creation. That is the
fundamental source of all suffering. We
have missed the complete sense of what it
means to be alive here. A thought in your
head or an emotion within you
determines the nature of your experience
right now. The whole creation is
happening wonderfully well but just one
thought or emotion can destroy
everything. And your thought and
emotion may have nothing to do even
with the limited reality of your life.

What you call as “my mind” is not yours

actually. You don’t have a mind of your
own. Please look at it carefully. What you
call as “my mind” is just society’s garbage
bin. Anyone and everyone who passes by
you stuffs something into your head. You
really have no choice about whom to
receive from and whom not to receive
from. If you say, “I don’t like this person,”
you will receive a lot more from that
person than anyone else. You really don’t
have a choice. If you know how to
process and use it, this garbage is useful.
This accumulation of impressions and
information that you have gathered is
only useful for survival in the world. It
has got nothing to do with who you are.

From Psychological to
Existential
When we talk about a spiritual process,
we are talking about shifting from
psychological to existential. Life is about
the creation that is here, knowing it
absolutely and experiencing it the way it
is; not distorting it the way you want. If
you want to move into existential reality,
to put it very simply, you just have to see
that what you think is not important,
what you feel is not important. What you
think has nothing to do with reality. It

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 has no great relevance to life. It is just
chattering away with nonsense that you
have gathered from somewhere else. If
you think it is important, you will never
look beyond that. Your attention
naturally flows in the direction of
whatever you hold as important. If your
thought and your emotion is important,
naturally your whole attention will be
right there. But that is a psychological
reality. That has nothing to do with the
existential.

Suffering is not showered upon us, it is

manufactured. And the manufacturing
unit is in your mind. It is time to shut
down the manufacturing unit.

Download the free ebook “Inner

Management”, where Sadhguru offers
effective tools to enhance our capabilities,
and gives us a way to open up a whole
new dimension of life that frees us from
external influences.

Download Inner Management

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