Master Your Mind with this Technique | Miracle of Mind | Sadhguru

Summary

The 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

00:00

😀 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.

05:01

😮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.

10:05

🤓 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.

15:06

😇 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.

Keywords

💡mirror

The mirror is used as a metaphor for the human mind and how it reflects and distorts reality. The speaker says we do not see the world directly, but only the reflection of it in the 'mirror of the mind', which is prejudiced and limited. He wants us to find a way to get behind this mental mirror and directly experience life.

💡reflections

The reflections refer to the images and perceptions created by the mind or mental mirror. The speaker says most people only experience these reflections or images in their mind, not direct reality. Their satisfaction comes from the activity of mind and body, not from knowing the bliss of their deeper being.

💡world

The world refers to objective reality as it is. The speaker says we do not see the world directly or as it is. Rather our perception of the world is mediated and distorted by the mirror of the mind. Each species perceives the world differently based on their mental mirror.

💡triangles

Triangles refer to the fundamental geometric shapes. The speaker says triangles are the simplest, most stable shapes. He asks participants to see how the human body can be broken down into countless triangles as an exercise in imagination and seeing reality in its geometric forms.

💡mind

The mind creates the metaphorical mirror that mediates and filters our perception of reality. The speaker wants to gain mastery over the mind, to go behind the mind's reflections and access deeper aspects of life and being.

💡reality

Reality refers to the way existence is, devoid of the mind's projections. The speaker wants us to see reality as it is, not just the reflections in our mental mirror which distort and limit perception of the real.

💡life

Life refers to living with a direct perception and experience of reality, not just seeing the mind's reflections which offer no depth. Most people come to the end without having truly lived, says the speaker.

💡being

Being refers to accessing one's essential nature or true self, beyond the superficial activity of mind and body. Bliss arises from knowing the being behind the mental mirror rather than chasing external phenomena.

💡bliss

Bliss refers to the joy, contentment and harmony that arises when one contacts and rests in being rather than looking outward at the world filtered by the mind. Most people do not know this bliss as they overly identify with their mind.

💡direct experience

Direct experience means perceiving reality without the mediation, filtering or distortion created by the mind and its prejudices. The speaker wants us to gain mastery over mind so we can slip behind it and into direct experience of life and being.

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