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#315 Sadhguru - Stop Letting Your Mind DESTROY You
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Joy Is Insurance, Reaction Is Slavery: Taking Charge of Inner Experience
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With the framework built, Sadhguru applies it to daily life. Joy is not selfish — it is the most socially responsible state a person can cultivate, because human beings only share what they have: joy produces joy in the environment, misery produces misery. He then sharpens the point: the moment you react to someone else's insult or provocation, you have handed governance of your inner experience to that person. That is slavery. He illustrates with a yogi who, after being publicly abused by villagers, simply listened attentively and then said, 'I have a meeting at 10 — I'll come back this way and you can tell me more.' Not cowardice — the yogi had simply decided no one would hijack his experience of life. Sadhguru tells Shawn he has never given anyone the freedom to make him happy or unhappy, peaceful or turbulent. He decides those things. This is not a spiritual luxury, he argues; it is the most basic act of self-determination, and it is available to every human being.
Yoga means union. When you experientially realize that the boundary between you and the rest of existence is not real — that one half of your lungs is hanging in the trees — every ethical commandment becomes unnecessary. You simply do your best for what is part of you.
