Becoming 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.

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This is very well put/said. Thank you 🙏🏽✨️

Thank you for sharing your precious thoughts🙏💜 you're an amazing teacher, Sadhguru🌹

This extraordinary gift of the spirit that Sadhguru graciously offers reminds me of “I slept, and I dreamed that life is ALL joy. I woke, and I saw that life is ALL service. I served, and I saw that service, is JOY (Kahlil Gibran)”. When we become self-less, our mind has become “right sized,” simply an employee, our EGO (Edging God Out) becomes irrelevant.

Our self will is obvious when we entertain resentmentS (self will regarding the past), fearS (self will regarding the future), self pity and depression (self will in this present moment). To walk humbly into each moment, without expectations, only awe and wonder is the gift Sadhguru is offering, if we are inclined to live a life JOYfully, of maximum service, NOW! In gratitude, ahimsa

What a resonating point of the power of now🌻

Not a truer words said.

Literally mind blowing. "There is absolutely no value in the process of thought" 💙

I enjoy each of his talks as he makes it clear that humility is so important.

WOW! I'm in Mindfulness group that meets weekly. This meditation bought clarity to the pass week of my practice. I'm humbled and grateful.

The Impulse for a long way in the western world 🌍.

Short but profound and so valuable. Thank you. ❤️🥀

To be listened to regularly. Wonderful and humbling.

The more I listen to this the more I love it🙏 thank you namaste

As always such great wisdom

As always beautiful wisdom ❤️.

Very valuable advise as I constantly cannot stop my thoughts and anxiety because I always react to the thought that "something is wrong with me and I know it". In fact I don't know it and gradually realize that I feel better when I don't pay so much attention about how I feel and react to everything I feel.

Insightful as all Guruji's talks.

Beautiful and to the point Sadhguru - Thank you for sharing

I love your Way of thinking! You amaze me and open my eyes each and every time!

Thank you. Silence in my world must start with me without fanfare. I needed these thoughts on silence today. Thank you