Quote · The Shawn Ryan Show
#315 Sadhguru - Stop Letting Your Mind DESTROY You
Where this was said
The Inner Journey Begins: Closing His Eyes to Stare at Himself
At 1:09:13 · chapter starts 1:05:45
When Shawn asks what Sadhguru saw when he closed his eyes, the yogi first challenges the premise: eyelids are lens caps — close them and you should see nothing. But most people close their eyes and replay old videos, a behaviour he calls a 'simple nonsense' that reveals how disordered the mind has become. He compares involuntary internal speech to Parkinson's disease: if a hand moves without permission, something is wrong. If a mind speaks without permission, something is wrong. He recalls arriving in America in 1996 or 1997 and being baffled by the concept of 'stress management' — why would you manage something undesirable? He concludes that stress is not a feature of life but the friction of a poorly engineered, poorly aligned, insufficiently lubricated machine — a framing that lands especially well for Shawn, a former weapons handler.
When Sadhguru first arrived in America in the 1990s, he could not understand why everyone wanted to 'manage' stress. We manage things that are precious. Stress is not precious — it is friction in a poorly engineered machine. Accept it as normal and you have already lost the fight.
