#58 - How Humans Manufacture Problems with Wisdom from Sadhguru
The Calm & Free Podcast with Pooja Mottl
English - October 05, 2021 12:00 - 4 minutes - 4.48 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSelf-Improvement Education Society & Culture Personal Journals ancient wisdom business motivation mindfulness life lessons coaching spirituality greatness philosophy inner peace Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Welcome back everybody. I was listening to a podcast with Tony Robbins and Sadhguru recently and I heard Sadhguru – who is an Indian spiritual master – compare the human existence with the existence of other animals. He gave a powerful example – he said when most animals have a full stomach, they feel satiated and at peace. They’ve solved their one essential problem: an empty stomach. But when we humans have full stomachs, we end up having hundreds of problems.
The story here is that although Mother Nature has given humans a special capability over other animals – a remarkable cognitive capacity - we haven’t yet learned to master this capability. We’re actually so bad at utilizing our cognitive abilities that we end up creating undo suffering for ourselves.
When are stomachs are full, we’re safe, we’re physically healthy, we have supportive relationships, contentment should be a breeze. Yet our monkey minds – jumping from thought to thought – bait us into manufacturing problems. We create assembly lines that even Henry Ford would admire, producing problem after problem in our minds. Judging situations, craving something in the future, shaming ourselves for something we did in the past, seeking pleasures to escape from the now, disgruntled with life due to our own perceptions.
Sadhguru describes this as unnecessary human suffering caused by the freedom that Mother Nature has offered to us. That freedom is our uniquely powerful minds.
This week, think about how this applies to you. How often are you full in your stomach but also full of manufactured problems? How many of these so-called problems do you actually, truly, have? We’ll continue to delve into this incredibly important topic in future episodes so stay tuned...
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