#1187 - Stop Being Dead Serious About Life | Mental Health

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Sadhguru looks at how if we want to transform ourselves, we need to "take a holiday" from being serious. He tells us to "loosen up your life a little bit, laugh a little more, involve yourself with people around you" and do "things that you think are not so important." Conscious Planet: https://www.consciousplanet.org Sadhguru App (Download): https://onelink.to/sadhguru__app Official Sadhguru Website: https://isha.sadhguru.org Sadhguru Exclusive: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusive Inner Engineering Link: isha.co/ieo-podcast Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the podcast, SOTOMAYOR of mystics and mistakes.
0:22.0	What are the best practices for someone who is dead serious?
0:24.6	Dead or serious?
0:26.6	Well, you referred to this last night.
0:30.3	Yeah, it once happened.
0:36.0	There was a Sufi master in Basra.
0:42.0	You know Basra? Basra is that place which is famous for pearls today in Iraq or it's famous for
0:51.3	bombing whichever way.
0:57.1	So someone came and said,
1:04.7	please give me a teaching. He refused.
1:06.1	No teaching.
1:10.9	Then more and more important people started coming to him and said please give us a teaching.
1:16.0	He said no teaching.
1:19.0	Now because he refuses to teach he became very famous.
1:26.7	So one day a great scholar in the area
1:29.4	who's well versed in all the scriptures and everything
1:32.0	he came and insisted, you have to teach you have
1:35.9	something that no scholar can have I'm beginning to realize that so you have to
1:40.9	teach you cannot keep it to yourself.
1:45.0	So the Sufi master looked at him and said,
1:51.0	I am not giving a teaching to you, not because I am not willing, because you are not willing.
2:00.0	The scholar said, what are you saying? I am not willing, I am here, I am asking you, I am the one who is asking you, and
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