Become Silent

Sadhguru explains, in the process of becoming silent, shutting one’s mouth is only half the job. Those too enamored with their own thought process will only catch themselves in a loop of recycled memories.

Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times.

Transcript

So the process of what you call as spiritual is not a psychological process.

Your memory has nothing to do with it.

It's a life process.

It's an existential process.

This can only happen if you allow yourself to be just a piece of life that you are.

To do this,

We do many things here and you know,

You might have seen people in the ashram walking around with those orange tags.

You've seen the silence tags people are wearing.

Just shut up.

Because shutting your mouth is only half the job.

To become silent is possible only when you do not think much of yourself.

If you think something about yourself,

If you think,

I'm smart,

How can you shut up?

You tell me.

If you think I'm smart,

How can you shut up?

If you realize that you're actually stupid,

You don't know anything in this existence,

Then isn't it?

Then you can simply look at life with great sense of wonder without a thought appearing in your mind.

If you think you're smart about everything,

You got explanations and calculations and nonsense going on in your head.

If you see one thing,

A thousand thoughts will go off,

Isn't it?

You're not sitting here in the satsang totally silent.

You're agreeing with me,

Disagreeing with me,

Making comments within yourself,

Making comments about the clothes that somebody is wearing next to you,

Appreciating it,

Depreciating it,

Everything is happening.

Am I wrong?

Because the moment you think there is some value to what you think,

Then you can't stop it.

No way to stop it.

It'll just go on and on and on.

When you see there is absolutely no life value to your thought process,

It is just memory recycling itself.

It's just the same old nonsense recycling itself.

But if you're excited,

If you're enamored by this recycle,

If you think it's great,

You cannot stop it.

If you see the patterns of what it is,

If you see the stupidity of what it is,

Then slowly you will distance yourself and it'll collapse because without attention it cannot go on.

Reviews

Astounding how the words silent and listen are composed of the same letters. 🙏🙏

Wise words 🙏Metta

Thought provoking as always, thank you 💜

I needed to hear this today.

Pure & simple. A great reminder of reality. Realizing this somehow inspires a quiet, conscious state.

Very interesting comments, and I see what Sadhguru is saying here....but how does one reconcile the humility of realizing that one is 'stupid' with regard to this existence with efforts to generate healthy self-love?

Certainly with regard to the great mysteries of life we are all stupid. But is it wrong to count among the things one loves about oneself pride in the mastery of a particular skill or body of knowledge and the perseverance it took to achieve that level of mastery?

I realy love listening to him 🕯🏵🛎🌚🎁

Easier said than done...yes or no?

Seriously profound yet so simple

thank you! I needed to hear this message today.

Oh this was so good!! Short but sweet💕

Beautiful and simple words

Lots of insight into today's political flavor. When people talk a lot it important to distance from them. The less attention they are given, the less they will talk

Without attention it cannot go on.

Very complete in a few words!

Such insight- so wise!

Humbling, yet comforting.

Early morning get-over-yourself wisdom

Need to be reminded of that

True peace through silence is challenging to achieve. I will try.