138 million trees planted
Sadhguru's Isha Foundation has planted over 138 million geocoded trees, each tracked by the Indian Space Research Organization, as part of his Save Soil movement.
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#315 Sadhguru - Stop Letting Your Mind DESTROY You
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Jun 22, 2026
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What Yoga Really Is: The Sensory Body, Phantom Limbs, and Expanding the Boundary of Self
At 1:48:40 · chapter starts 1:45:50
Sadhguru asks Shawn to rub his palms briskly and then hold them four inches apart — Shawn reports a magnetic sensation, proof of a sensory field beyond the physical skin. He connects this to phantom limb syndrome: amputees feel sensations from limbs that no longer exist because the sensory body extends beyond the physical one. He then offers a clean definition: whatever is within your sensation boundary is you; whatever is outside is not. Drink water and it becomes you — it crossed the boundary. This framework makes yoga elegantly practical: expand the sensory boundary to include the room, the forest, the cosmos, and 'thou shalt not kill' becomes redundant — you would no more harm something inside your boundary than you would stab your own hand. If you have never heard the word yoga but once felt one with everything, he tells Shawn, you are a yogi. Yoga is not a posture. [1] — Sadhguru "Whatever is within the boundary of your sensation is you. Whatever is outside is not. Drink a bottle of water and suddenly it's you — it cr…" 2:22:25
Save Soil: How 4,500 Volunteers Cooled a Mountain
A hill stripped bare by an illegal furniture industry radiated heat in summer. Sadhguru took 4,500 volunteers, gave them two meals a day and one song, and planted over 6 million trees in 3.5 days. Twenty-seven years later, temperatures around the area are at minimum 4 degrees cooler than the surrounding city.
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