We spend 95% of our time recalling past events and imagining future events. Very little time spent being conscious of the present.
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Key Takeaways
People are suffering. Why are they suffering? They think they’re suffering in their life. People are suffering something that happened in the past, or something in the future. They are not suffering from life, they are suffering from their memory and their imagination.
Two greatest faculties that human beings have: memory and imagination. What you are saying is, evolution has made a mistake with you.
What’s the takeaway? People want a commandment. Should want Consciousness. Commandments mean you’re trying to fix your life. Consciousness means you want to liberate your life. My intention is you must liberate your life. Do you want your mind controlled or to be liberated?
Yoga helps create a stable platform so that your intelligence works for you. Stress, tension, anxiety, madness, depression: all this means is that your intelligence has turned against you.
If your intelligence was working for you, would you create blissfulness or misery? Why has this happened? Because you do not have a stable base. The entire Yogic System is about creating a stable base so that your intelligence works for you. If your intelligence turns against you, no power in the universe can save you.
Your thoughts belong to you, or you belong to the thoughts. You must make up your mind. How alive do you want to be? All human experience comes from within. What comes from within you must be the way you want it. What comes from around you, may not be the way you want it. Your joy and misery comes from within you.
Right now: you can look at everything joyfully. What is the problem? Try to find a solution to it. Or you can look at everything with a great sense of misery and you become, part of the problem. Either you become part of the solution or part of the problem.
People are not conscious that they are mortal. They think other people die. They don’t now consciously that I will die. Life is always ticking away.If you were conscious of this, you would manage your life in the best possible way.
Try to find a heaven within themselves. 80-85% of the population turn to drugs or alcohol simply because they are trying to build their own heaven. We have come to a point where to grow food, to live, to be joyful, to be peaceful we need chemicals. If everything is chemicals, the next generation will be of a lesser quality than who we are.
It’s not a moral issue, By using these pleasures, you’re taking a backwards step with life because enhancing life can only be done by increasing our faculties. Our ability to be active physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually—if this is in any way crippled—this means we are taking a backward step.
The greatest chemical factory is right here inside. Every human being wants their life enhanced. If you don’t show them proper ways to enhance, they will find shortcuts. A man who goes to a bar, and a man who goes to a church or whatever—they are seeking the same thing. Trying to enhance their life. If you do not show them a proper way, they will take whatever ways viable on the street.