Master Your Mind with this Technique | Miracle of Mind | Sadhguru
Summary
TLDRThe speaker discusses how our perception of the world is limited and distorted by the 'mirror' of our minds. We see reflections, not reality. Just as a mirror cannot capture anything, our minds merely reflect sense impressions without experiencing life directly. The speaker urges practicing mastery over the mind, using visualization of geometric forms like triangles to slip behind this mirror. The intent is not to gain powers but to touch life more deeply instead of just experiencing thoughts and emotions. This takes discipline so that one can pass through the mind subtly without leaving holes, avoiding disaster.
Takeaways
- 😀 The mind reflects the world based on our personal biases and limitations, not as it actually is
- 😯 Over 80% of people die bewildered, realizing they never truly lived life
- 👁️ You can never see yourself, only the reflections in the mirror of your mind
- 🔺 The most stable geometric form is a triangle - the body and mind can be broken down into triangles
- 😵 Most people only experience the superficial activity of their mind and body, not the depth of their being
- ⚙️ Exercising and focusing the mind can give you mastery over it to slip behind it
- ❌ These capabilities should not be used carelessly or for selfish purposes
- 🚪 They can open up holes in the mind to pass through to something beyond
- 🌄 The goal is to taste life more fully rather than just see reflections on the mirror of the mind
- 🔃 Without knowing what's behind the mirror, endless cycles continue and nothing changes
Q & A
What does Sadhguru mean when he says that we are seeing the world reflected in the mirror of our minds?
-He means that we do not see the world directly as it is. Our perceptions and understandings of the world are filtered and distorted by the conditioning and limitations of our minds.
Why does Sadhguru say that if you were a grasshopper or some other creature, you would see the world very differently?
-Because different creatures have different forms of perception and cognition based on their biology and evolutionary development. A grasshopper literally sees different parts of the light spectrum. So its experience of reality would be fundamentally different from a human's.
What does Sadhguru mean when he says evolution has given humans a more levelled out mirror compared to other creatures?
-He means that the human mind, while still limited, has a greater capability for reason, logic and perception compared to other animals. So we have the possibility to see reality in a more balanced way, if we work to remove the distortions in our minds.
Why does the mirror analogy mean you can never experience who you really are?
-Because you are always the one looking into the mirror - the witness. You can never turn the mirror around to see your true self or who is behind the perceptions. So you only see images and reflections, never your essence.
What are the two options Sadhguru presents for truly living instead of just seeing reflected images?
-The two options are: 1) Experience creation/the world directly as it is, unfiltered by your mind. 2) Experience the one behind the mirror - your true essence, unclouded by mental images or thoughts.
Why does Sadhguru stress that this perception training is not for manifesting or gaining things, but for mastery of the mind?
-Because if you use these abilities solely to gain wealth or other ego-fulfilling ends, you will mess up yourself and the world. This is only meant to go beyond the mind's limitations, not to feed your desires.
What is the benefit of being able to vividly break anything down into geometric triangles?
-It develops focus, concentration and mastery over your imagination and perception. This trains you to become aware of reality as it is, not just your mental interpretations.
Why does it require rigorous training to be able to properly visualize and work with forms geometrically?
-Because most people's imaginations and perceptions are undisciplined and scattered. Systematic training is needed to gain control and vividness to properly envisage forms.
What danger does Sadhguru say comes from gaining mastery over perception without spiritual maturity?
-You may try to use the powers for egoic fulfillment like healing loved ones or gaining wealth. This could seriously backfire without ethical development alongside.
What is the ultimate purpose of gaining mastery over one's own mind?
-To allow you to become conscious of the one behind the mind - your true essence and potential. Not to get lost in the mental images reflected in front of you.
Outlines
😀 The human perception of reality is limited and distorted
The paragraph explains that human perception of reality is limited and distorted by the prejudices and identifications that shape the 'mirror of the mind'. It gives examples of how other creatures like tigers or grasshoppers would perceive the world differently. The mind can only reflect things, it cannot truly experience reality or the self behind the mirror of the mind. Most people die bewildered, never having truly lived or experienced life beyond the activity of their mind.
😮Moments that shatter the mirror of the mind bring aliveness
The paragraph states that those who have had powerful situational experiences where the 'mirror of the mind' was shattered temporarily, die with either joy or pain. Others who did not have their mental mirror shattered die bewildered and confused, realizing they never really lived. One must either see the creation as it is, or experience the one behind the mental mirror to truly live.
🤓 Triangles are the fundamental geometric forms underlying creation
The paragraph emphasizes triangles as the most fundamental and stable geometric forms. Everything in existence including energy centers(chakras) can be broken down into networks of triangles. To understand the geometry of a form like the human body, one must be able to break it down and completely fill it with triangles. This requires a powerful imagination where the visualization is vivid and real.
😇 Exercising imagination prepares one to slip behind the mind
The paragraph clarifies that developing mastery over one's own mind is not for fulfilling mundane desires but to gain access to that which lies behind the mind. Life is currently dominated by the repetitive cycles of thought and emotion that are just reflections on the mirror of the mind. Exercising one's imagination and focus enables subtler passage behind the veil of the mind into true living.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡mirror
💡reflections
💡world
💡triangles
💡mind
💡reality
💡life
💡being
💡bliss
💡direct experience
Highlights
You're not seeing the world as it is, you are seeing it in the mirror of the human mind as it is distorted in a particular way
If you were some other creature you would be seeing the world very differently, so your mirror is a certain level of prejudice among all the creatures
A human being has a better leveled out mirror but it can get distorted depending upon the varieties of identifications and prejudices we get together with life
If you work upon it, if you polish our mind sufficiently it could become a plain mirror where it shows everything as it is
You can never come in front of the mirror because you're always behind the mirror, you can never come in the pitch in the front face of the mirror
You never get to experience who is behind the mirror, entire life goes just seeing many images that come in the mirror which don't leave a trace on it
You must see the creation as it is or you must experience the one behind the mirror, if both these things don't happen, all you watch was what is what are the reflections on the meta
The most fundamental form of geometry is a triangle and is the most stable form
If I have to make this completely occupied by triangle I will have to make it into 10 million triangles, it will need that much attention to be able to break this into millions of triangles
If you exercise your mind like this it'll become in such a way that you can make it do what you want
This is not to be used like that, this is not in that direction at all, this is just to give you an excess to something more than your mind in your life
While we are doing practices, already shamb is a simple and beautiful way to do it
This is something that you do within yourself so that you able to slip behind the mind, you have enough Mastery over the thing if you focus it'll open up holes and one can go
It needs lots of work, I started very early I started when when I was three and a half four years of age took hours and hours and hours of focus
If you think it's worth 1 minute 1 minute, if you think it's 1 Hour 1 hour, if you think it's worth 24 hours 24 hours whatever you see
Transcripts
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you must understand
this so one thing
is you have not seen the
world you have only seen it
the way it's reflected in the mirror of
your mind
yes you not seeing the world as it
is you are seeing it in the mirror of
the human mind as it is distorted in a
particular
way if you were a
grasshopper you would be seeing the
world very
differently
if you were some other creature you
would be seeing the world very
differently so your mirror is a certain
level of
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prejudice among all the
creatures what evolution means
is on one
level your mirror is fairly more plain
compared to the mirrors that other
creatures hold in their
mind Suppose there is a tiger here I'm
talking about
animal if there was a tiger here he
looks like this dinner
breakfast
lunch he can't think beyond
that because his mirror is like that the
mirror of his mind shows him only
food compared to other creatures a human
being
has a better leveled out
mirror but it can get
distorted depending upon the varieties
of identifications and prejudices we get
together with
life if you're very strongly identified
with something then you don't see things
as they
are everything gets distorted in your
mind but if you
work if you work upon it if you polish
our mind
sufficiently it could become a plain
mirror where it shows everything as it
is but still a mirror doesn't really
capture
anything if
you see a old mirror which is 500 years
old or 200 years old
whatever maybe million different faces
might have been reflected in that mirror
but not a
trace of any of those faces remain in
the
mirror because aera just
reflects similarly your mind just
reflects what the five sense organs are
grasping right
now it reflects everything not
necessarily the way it is but it
reflects
everything except
you you can never come in front of the
mirror because you're always behind the
mirror you can never come in the pitch
in the front face of the mirror you are
only in the rear side of the
mirror so what this means is you never
experienc the world the way it
is nor did you ever get to experience
who is behind the mirror entire life
goes just seeing many images that come
in the mirror which don't leave a trace
on
it this is the
reason why over 80% of the
people the moment of death if you watch
them
carefully you will see they're
bewildered
because they only when it begins when
the moment comes when it's going to be
ending the way you know
it suddenly you realize you you never
lived
it you never got started already these
guys are saying it's
over you will see people who had strong
experiences not because of necessarily
because of their Enlightenment or
something let's say they had very strong
experiences in terms
of very powerful situations or events in
life maybe Wars and
revolutions and extreme situations even
accidents extreme situations where there
was no room to think there just was a
big drama
happening where in many ways the mirror
of the Mind broke and something more
happened for whatever reasons either
Pleasant or unpleasant it does doesn't
matter you will see only such people
will either die in Joy or in pain all
others die
bewildered even if there is physical
pain due to some alment or some bodily
State when that moment comes you will
see this
confusion because suddenly you realize
the last moment you never got started
and it's getting over
so either you must see the creation as
it
is or you must experience the one behind
the
mirror if both these things don't happen
all you watch was what is what are the
reflections on The
Meta this is not
life there is no purchase to life
there's no roots to life it's just
passing the activity of the mind and the
activity of the body is the only
satisfaction most people have because
they do not know the Bliss of their
being
so we don't want to shatter the mirror
we want to keep the mirror but we want
to find a way to slip behind the
mirror shall we the simplest and the
most stable geometric form is a
triangle
okay yeah put the do things
down just just close your eyes and just
stand facing
them stand whichever way you want keep
your arms this way that way hold that
position for some time and stand one one
p one one p
something when he stand like this I want
you to look at his thing not as a human
being just as
geometry just at least start seeing how
many triangles in
this stand some other
way some of the way
I wanted to just keep looking how many
triangles how many
triangles this simple form of a man
standing how many triangles can you
break it
into so if you're seeing 3 four five
triangles try to make it into
25 if you're seeing 25 try to make it
into 50 if you're seeing 50 try to make
it into 500 like this make it into more
and more and more let me
see stand some other
way just stand bending some other way
at least one on his sleeve you can see
for
sure
okay
now thank
you what you like the
performance
you you must understand
that the most fundamental form of
geometry is a triangle and is the most
stable
form all chakas are
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triangles everything inside everything
fundamentally it you can break it down
into triangle every shape and every
form the more
distinctly you can cover a certain space
when you see this
body if you can fill every millimeter
with a
triangle you're beginning to understand
the geometry of that particular
form use a large
triangles you will see some parts of the
body will be cut
off yes if I make this body into three
triangles or five triangles some parts
will be cut off you it can't be
included and some empty spaces where
there is nothing will be
inside so if I have to make
this completely occupied by triangle I
will have to make it into 10 million
triangles it will need that much
attention to be able to break this into
millions of
triangles if you break it down like
this this one need not do as technically
as I'm saying but in some way only if
this happens will you have a vivid
imagination that when you imagine
something it's as real as
real this you're doing better when you
asleep than when you're
awake if
you see a flower or a man or a woman or
an elephant or a
rhinoceros you see it very clearly in
your dream isn't
it so you're doing better asleep than
awake that's not good if you drive
better when you're sleeping you're a bad
driver if you a better driver when you
sleeping that means you're a terrible
driver when you're awake Isn't
it that's what is happening right now in
sleep you're able to imagine something
very clearly geometrically You' gotten
it all right yes or no if you see this
person in your dream she's just the way
she is sometimes if you don't like her
she is
becoming like this if you like her very
much she's becoming nice more nice than
she is
that little exaggeration is there but
there's no geometrical
struggle yes she doesn't lose her form
like this right now if you try to
imagine she loses form you can't hold
the form that means you're driving
better in
sleep not a good thing isn't it this
will take a certain amount of exercising
the
mind
uh you may not get to do much in 2 days
or one day but if you start this if you
understand
how if you at least understand the
process how you can do it
anywhere you can sit in your office
seriously at work but not
work not
working if you are sitting somewhere
anything now you see this
vessel you can geometrically break it
down into a million pieces and put it
back if you exercise your mind like
this it'll become in such a way that you
can make it do what you
want don't get Hasty and start asking
for this that everything and
unfortunately it may
happen but you will mess yourself
up very
badly so this is not about creating what
you
want this is not about
having this is towards
being can you maintain this discipline
just because you have some kind of
capability you will not start asking
uh what is that $1.2 billion
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Lottery
what roller ball power Power
Ball So Power Ball Power Ball Power
[Applause]
Ball Power Ball may happen but it may
roll over you and go
away I'm saying this is not for the that
kind of
purpose this is to have Mastery over the
mind so that it will allow you to go
behind
it so that you don't spend your entire
life just looking at the reflections on
the mirror of your mind you begin to
taste life for what it
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is while we are doing practices
already shamb is a simple and beautiful
way to do
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it but I'm sure many of you are not able
to stay
there but if we
really want to just be there all the
time then a little Mastery over the mind
will will do
good but the moment you have little
capability if you think you want to heal
people your friend has
cancer I will undo the cancer and put it
back you may be able to but you will be
a disaster for yourself and for the
world because this is not to be used
like that this is not in that direction
at
all this is just to give you an excess
to something more than your mind in your
life right now it's all this bloody
stupid mind that's all you have
experiencing thought and emotion thought
and emotion thought and emotion these
are just images on the mirror has no
significance has no depth it's two
dimensional just a
reflection entire life is going seeing
the reflections of life
not good way to spend life isn't
it so this is not another trick that you
exercise in the world this is something
that you do within
yourself so that you able to slip behind
the mind you have enough Mastery over
the
thing if you
focus it'll open up
holes and one can
go well those of you who have easier way
to
do you must be popping popping some
pills and stuff to do it it may
happen that's the biggest problem it may
happen
sometimes but then you can't fix the
hole in your mind after that that's the
only
problem here it's not like that you
become so fine you pass through the
mind even the mind doesn't know you pass
through to keep it so subtle it needs
lots of
work I started very
early I started when when I was three
and a half four years of age took hours
and hours and hours of
focus I don't know how much your life is
worth pay that much attention
if you think it's worth 1 minute 1
minute if you think it's 1 Hour 1 hour
if you think it's worth 24 hours 24
hours whatever you
see one who is only watching the
reflections of his
mind nothing will
change endless Cycles will go on but
nothing will change because nothing
changes on the mirror
whose face is being reflected right now
will not change the quality of the
mirror in any way who is behind the
mirror if we know who is behind the
mirror then we can change
everything then we can even make the
mirror turn around and turn inward
completely
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