Stop the Minds Chatter

The problem is not the mind but that the mind is "telling its own story." The powerful kriya, Shambhavi Mahamudra, is one big step towards changing this.

Transcript

Questioner 1 – Sadhguru,

I wanted to know that when we are silent,

Still we feel that mind chatter which always bothers us and our thought always shifts back to past and future imaginations which will not be any of output,

How to get rid of it?

There's a whole lot of thought about this thoughtlessness.

Thoughtlessness,

No mind,

These kinds of terms have been propagated all over the place and these terms have been badly misunderstood and made it all kinds of things and people are striving how to stop my mind.

It took millions of years of evolution to get a mind of this kind of capability,

Hmm?

Isn't it?

Millions of years of tremendous amount of natures work that today you have a mind of this kind of scope and now you want to stop it.

Why is it that you want to stop it?

If your mind was constantly producing absolute pleasantness for you,

Would you think how to stop this mind?

Would you?

No.

It's producing lot of unpleasantness.

That's why you are thinking of how to stop the mind.

This is the first thing,

Wherever you go in the world,

This has gone so much into people's mind.

If you tell them you meditate,

They say,

But Sadhguru,

I'm not able to stop my mind.

I said that will happen only after you stop your kidneys,

Liver,

Heart.

You stop all these things,

Then the mind will also stop.

Do you want it to stop?

No.

Then why do you want the mind to stop?

Why do you have such a horrible prejudice against the mind?

You don't mind if your heart is beating,

You can meditate.

You don't mind if your liver is working,

You can meditate.

Your kidneys are functioning,

You can meditate.

If your brain functions,

You can't meditate.

What is the problem?

You seem to have something against intelligence,

Isn't it?

This is the conspiracy of the stupid against human intelligence that to meditate means your brain must be frozen.

No.

You don't have to freeze your brain.

We were looking at this yesterday itself.

We will initiate you to Shambhavi.

It's a simple process.

There are many ways to do it.

This is one simple way.

But it's a powerful process.

If you sit here,

You will see your body is here,

Your mind is somewhere,

Who you are is somewhere else.

Once there is a space between you and the mind,

Then what the mind is not doing,

What the mind is doing is not even an issue.

It is like you are stuck in the traffic jam.

You know,

You are struggling through the traffic.

That's one experience.

Suppose you are either standing on Chamundi Hill or you are floating in a hot air balloon and look down at all the traffic,

Very peacefully,

Traffic.

Why?

It's the distance,

Isn't it?

When you are in it,

Traffic is a different experience.

From really high up there,

Sitting in a hot air balloon,

You look down,

You can't even hear the sounds.

Looks wonderful traffic,

Isn't it?

Yes or no?

Yes.

Because there is a distance.

So once there is a distance between you and your mind's activity,

Mind is not a problem.

Mind is a miracle,

It is not a problem.

And anyway,

If thoughts are going continuously,

If you are having a mental diarrhea,

Obviously you ate some bad food,

Isn't it?

Yes.

If you are having a physical diarrhea,

You ate some bad food,

Isn't it?

If you are having a mental diarrhea,

You are obviously consumed something wrong.

What this wrong thing could be is the moment you identify yourself with something that you are not,

Then you are finished.

Your mind is a continuous runs.

There is no other way.

Do what you want.

Try as hard as you want.

It is not going to stop.

If you do not identify yourself with anything that you are not,

You know how to be with everything,

You know how to use everything but you are not identified with it,

Then you will see if you sit here,

Simply mind will be like this.

You want to use it,

You can use it,

Otherwise it will be like this.

Right now your hands are like this.

Oh,

You are holding it tied up because it will go all over,

Is it?

No.

You can keep it like this.

You can keep it like this,

You can keep it like this.

When you want to use it,

You can use it.

So it's a useful instrument.

Suppose your hands become like this.

You know some people have become like this.

Yes or no?

If it becomes like this,

You will become ridiculous,

Isn't it?

If it happens to your mind,

Also you are equally ridiculous.

It is just that you are living in the comfort that nobody else can see it.

But people can see it.

They watch you closely enough,

They can see it,

Isn't it?

And whether they can see it or not,

That's not the point.

The point is the most important faculty of your life is out of control.

Doesn't matter whether they can see it or not,

That's not the issue.

The issue is the most important faculty in your life is out of control,

Doing its own rubbish all the time,

Not doing what you want it to do.

So if you have to be freed from this ailment,

You should stop eating bad food.

Wrong food or bad food means you are identifying yourself with things that you are not.

If you sit here,

If you are not identified with this and with this,

Then you will see everything is just fine.

Then your mind will do what you want it to do,

Otherwise it will simply hang there and that's how it should be.

Mind should not be telling its own stories all the time.

It should tell the story that you want it to tell,

Isn't it?

Otherwise it's quite a nuisance.

Reviews

You are such a wise teacher, your words carry wisdom.

Amazing and answered my questions about eating badly wow no idea how that related to my thoughts! Thank you thank you

I love the idea that it is unrealistic to quiet the mind 🙏

This talk helped me see more clearly and with confidence the distinction between the mind, body and the True self, me. Also, Master do you really reside in McMinnville, TN. ?

Very helpful and much appreciated. I love the encouragement to appreciate this instrument, my assistant, the mind! This encouragement seems in alignment with appreciating this body and my 21+ other assistants. www.gratefulness.org, ahimsa

A lot of insights are highlighted in this profound talk about my daily way of existence - Being joyful and positive our mind will thrive into a purposeful living🌞

Thank you for your wise words🙏🏻

Pranam

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Useful insight about how to deal with a chattering mind

Never looked at the wandering mind that way. Excellent break down.

Simple understand of how the mind becomes disregulated when it identifies with things that it is not.

Nice 😊 pleasant to hear Sadhguru speak always 😊 thank you so much 😊

Such fantastic wisdom and perspective. I loved the metaphor of "eating bad food" for the cause of incessant thinking. This definitely provided great guidance on how to look at our thought patterns.

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I really needed this when my thoughts were all negative and it was affecting my peace of mind while at work.

Thank you for your continued words of wisdom 🙏💯👍

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My biggest take out is about practising the art of creating distance between your mind and issues...and Observe from a point of stillness

Sadhguru's wonderful sense of humor is on display in this clip. Garbage in, Garbage out is the gist of it. Worth listening to!

Very helpful in understanding the chatter of the mind and the importance to develop distance from its thoughts and to remember I am not the mind🙏🏼

Thank you for the fantastic insight, great amusing analogies to help with the understanding. So grateful to have listened to this 🙏💚

I love your outlook. So excited that I listened to this. It helped calm my racing thoughts into slow motion. Thank you!