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Lewis HowesDAILY STEPS To Manifest What You REALLY WANT | Sadhguru & Lewis Howes
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Joy as Expression, Not Pursuit, in Relationships
Lewis Howes asks how to move from control and resentment toward conscious love. Sadhguru says love is a quality you become rather than something you squeeze from another person, and compares emotional dependence to a crutch.
- •Decide whether life is a pursuit of happiness or an expression of joy
- •Love is a quality you become, not something you extract from a partner
- •A pleasant body, mind, emotion and energy are each your own business, while success needs others' cooperation
- •Needing someone to feel love is compared to relying on a crutch
- •Intimate sharing can follow when you are already complete in yourself
Fulfillment of Life Instead of Abundance
Asked how to use karma to create financial, health and relationship abundance, Sadhguru says those are the wrong goals. Using the maple tree, he argues for blossoming to one's fullest and questions what abundance means.
- •A tree tries to be the best tree it can be, not to produce another tree's fruit
- •Numbers for wealth are socially relevant, not relevant to the individual
- •Affluence starts as a choice of nourishment, then a choice of lifestyle
- •Abundance depends on time and place, such as a cave 10,000 years ago
- •Nurture the root, not the fruit, and don't compare yourself to others
Ease, the Body as a Borrowed Piece of Earth, and Fearlessness
Sadhguru explains that 24 hours of ease would greatly improve one's capacity. He says the body is a gift borrowed from the planet. When Howes asks about fear and chaos, Sadhguru says only what he wants happens within him and that he acts as a situation requires.
- •A science and technology exists for creating inner situations
- •24 hours of ease could raise one's ability dramatically
- •The body is a piece of the planet picked up for use, not the self
- •Sadhguru says only what he wants happens within him
- •He faces hatred often and says hate propels people into action more than love
Intelligence, Being in the Moment, and Taking Oneself Too Seriously
Sadhguru criticizes the popular idea of being in the moment as a call to dull one's cerebral capability. He says intelligence is a solution people turn into a problem, and that taking individual existence too seriously degrades life after childhood.
- •Being in the moment is described as telling people to stop using their brain
- •People dull their brains with alcohol, drugs or overeating
- •Intelligence needs a stable chemistry, energy and body as a platform
- •People are raised like cattle rather than nurtured
- •Taking individual existence too seriously makes life take a backseat
Death, Rest, and the Cobra Test
Howes asks whether Sadhguru focuses on death, and he mentions his new book on it. Conversation turns to restful wakefulness, his very low sleep needs, heart rate and the cobra test for calm chemistry.
- •Death is a reminder of limited time and energy that helps prioritize life
- •Sadhguru read a poem he wrote about restless people
- •Wakefulness should also be restful, running cool like an engine
- •Sadhguru reports very short sleep over decades
- •The cobra test checks whether someone is truly calm
Perception, Experience, and Making Mistakes
Howes quotes the idea that only what you perceive you know. Sadhguru explains perception through the five senses, then the talk moves to what is missing in America and whether Sadhguru regrets mistakes, with him preferring to learn from others' experience.
- •Perceptual data from the five senses lets us function in the world
- •Reading about something differs from perceiving it, as in catching a ball
- •Sadhguru says America's cruel history needs remorse and settlement
- •He does not see life as a series of mistakes to learn from
- •We can learn from other people's experience and history
Karma as Memory: Platform or Quicksand
Asked how karma fits with people who cause harm, Sadhguru ties identity to memory and defines karma as accumulated memory stored in body and mind. He says one can stand on it or sink into it, and turn it into manure.
- •Identities like nationality rest on memory
- •Karma is accumulated memory, a platform or quicksand
- •Racists and terrorists are described as victims of memory
- •Creating distance from body and mind ends karmic influence
- •Memory can be converted into manure to blossom upon
Identity, Body and Mind as Possessions, and Yoga as Union
Sadhguru explains that identities are needed to function but should be held loosely like loose clothing. The body is a heap of food and the mind a heap of impressions, and the human longing to be more is expressed variously and consciously as yoga, meaning union.
- •Identity is needed for action but can wrap you up
- •Loose clothing is an image for awareness of the space between you and your identity
- •Body is a heap of food and mind a heap of impressions
- •An innate longing to go beyond boundaries shows in sexuality, ambition, love and yoga
- •Yoga means consciously obliterating boundaries of individuality
Emotions Are Self-Created: Inner Engineering and Freedom from Suffering
Asked where to direct anger and resentment, Sadhguru says experiences arise from within and should happen your own way. Unfamiliar situations bring growth, and the intellect is a knife that cannot do all the work of life.
- •Anger, misery and joy are created within us, not done to us
- •Someone else deciding your happiness is the worst slavery
- •Thoughts and emotions that beat you up are likened to an ailment
- •Fear of suffering narrows life to a comfort zone
- •The intellect is like a knife and not a needle for stitching life
Sadhguru's Anger, Righteous Anger, and Moving from Religion to Responsibility
Sadhguru says he never gave anyone the privilege of making him angry, though he was angry constantly from about age 11 to 23 or 24 over injustice. He critiques righteous anger and says Inner Engineering moves people from religion to responsibility.
- •He did not give anyone the privilege of making him happy or angry
- •He was angry around the clock as a youth over perceived injustice
- •Righteous anger only stimulates action when love is lacking
- •Responsibility must come here, not from an imagined up
- •Solace is for extreme misery, while the well-fed should seek solutions
Growing Up Should Get Better: Filth as Fertilizer and the Body-Wide Mind
Sadhguru says joy is normal and adulthood should improve on childhood. He says unpleasant experiences can become fertilizer, that every cell carries memory, and that over-reliance on the intellect causes stress.
- •Childhood joy reversed into adulthood needing others to make us happy
- •Waste can be fertilizer or smeared on your face; one chooses wise or wounded
- •Every cell carries far more memory than the brain
- •Mind is across the whole body, not only the intellect
- •Educated people are described as unhappier from having sharpened only their knife
Car Ads, Comparison and the Joy of Beating Others
Sadhguru says human experience is caused from within and outside arrangements only facilitate activity. He uses car advertising to show how people buy for neighbors' envy, and says a joy built on others' failure is sickness.
- •Outer arrangements facilitate activity but do not make you happy or unhappy
- •Car ads sell leather and paneling instead of engine details
- •Cultivation of being number one starts in kindergarten
- •Joy that depends on others failing is described as sickness
- •Alone in a room, a miserable person is in bad company
Limited Identity as the Root of Crime and the Case for a Cosmic Identity
Sadhguru explains his claim that family is crime: the one evil is limited identity, which becomes dangerous when empowered. He cites the 20th century and Hitler, and says yogic culture teaches children a cosmic identity so competence becomes a gift.
- •Crime scales with how empowered a person with limited identity is
- •Identities of family, race, religion and nation have driven mass killing
- •Yogic tradition gives children a cosmic identity through the elements
- •Family support is beautiful but should not be limited to a few people
- •Competence and intelligence are a boon only when identity is expansive
Borders, Raising Children, and a Global Anthem
Howes asks about opening every border, and Sadhguru says economic disparity is the difficulty. He urges holding nationality lightly, says humans should be nurtured rather than raised, and proposes a global anthem for children.
- •Open borders would require no economic disparity
- •India's regional diversity is offered as an example of difference without problem
- •Hold nationality and other identities lightly because they are our own making
- •Human beings are a possibility to be nurtured, not raised like concrete blocks
- •Children should learn their traditions as not absolute and sing a global anthem
