The Addiction to Thoughts and Self-Awareness

Addiction stems from the mind's attachment to thoughts, hindering true self-awareness and growth.

### Overcoming Addiction to Thoughts and Embracing Radical Honesty
* 🧠 Sadhguru discusses how people are **addicted to thoughts**, which **consume their energy** and **form their identity**.
* 🔄 Breaking this addiction involves facing issues as they are, without creating a "**nice image**" to avoid discomfort.
* 🕊 Embracing radical honesty is key, as it involves **accepting and expressing one's true desires and feelings without hypocrisy**.
* 🌱 This honesty is crucial for **personal growth** and **evolving beyond self-imposed limitations**.
* 🧘 Meditation and self-awareness can help in recognizing and **overcoming these thought addictions**.
* 🔗 The interplay between **Shiva (consciousness)** and **Shakti (energy)** is highlighted as a way to **address and dissolve inner conflicts**.
* 💬 Sadhguru emphasizes the importance of being **honest with oneself and others**, even when it may be uncomfortable.
* 🌌 Ultimately, this process is about aligning with one's **true nature and flow**, which may have been **suppressed or distorted by societal conditioning**.

Only a few people who smoke and drink and get angry, they call it addict. Everybody is not addicted; we are addicted to thoughts. Our thoughts are consuming our energy. I am going to meditate on that, and it's consuming you, and you make your identity with it. So, actually, it's an addiction to thinking. You feel you exist. So, when I say that if you say, I am angry, and I have an issue, and if you don't create some nice image, that is the way to...

Break addiction. You are just facing the issue as it is, and I do not know what to do. I am like that; that forces you to suffer, forces you to see your issues. But when it comes to the point of looking at it, we just start to find some spiritual philosophy to look at it that way. God wants to feel better about himself, and God is feeling shitty too. Show me a way; you are not looking for survival or higher.

Growth and going freak out. I am feeling overwhelmed. If you can stay with me on a micro level, on a personal level, but when you go out to different institutions and places, you have not addressed the original issue. You will get into a situation where power politics starts in the greatest of places because people start to create their addiction to their role. I am no better, and something, an addiction, an addiction that really isn't minimal.

नहीं, मैं अंडरट्यूडल जल विश्लेषण नहीं कर सकता और यह उसी चीज़ को करने के लिए बल्स किया गया है। आपके पास कोई ऐसा तंत्र नहीं है जहाँ आप जीवन के साथ अपने आप को महसूस कर सकें, न कि किसी वस्तु के माध्यम से। यदि कुछ आपको बहता है, तो आप किसी और की तरह नहीं हैं। कोई भी कुछ नहीं करता है, यह कुछ नहीं है, कुछ सहन करना, कुछ होता है जब आप इसे पसंद करते हैं। और आप वहाँ जाते हैं, और हम उस तरह को नहीं देखते। जैसे वहाँ एक मजाक है कि कोई शराब पी रहा है और वह...

My wife tries so hard to be bitter. What do you think? I was enjoying the time, you know, because he drank, so it’s just there. It is fun for you until you don’t address the fun and really be sincere. I like it. Why don’t you just say, “I like it”? The dual opposite I created documents fragment. You want to fit in, you want to say, “I’m not like that.” Really, this hypocrisy, trying to get out of addiction, you are being hypocritical. Recently, this guy from name.

Friends, math, math, but addiction pills, duck, duck, and the whole system is how to get out, how to go to rehab. They are not looking at what this human being is looking for, in that he needs use, and the only thing that can give him juice is sorts. He is going for it, and he himself may not be aware. And our whole psychology around juice of guilt. So now you are guilty about less sex overall psychology. If you do not feel guilty...

About masturbation, you will not get addicted to it because the whole stress created and something like that, you are never going to do anything anyway. You hardly take up there, but you are having your caring for a map to the city where you are never going to go. It's hypocritical, right? The question is, what is it? You start to flow. Very simple thing, you start to flow, and we have huge guilt around flowing.

Addiction is related to your taste, your energy flow, your sensuality and sexuality, your pleasure sense, and it is riddled with guilt. It is riddled with everything else, and even people who go for meditation, who go to Sadhguru, you think they know pleasure? You go into Sadhana, you will not go there. You know you will start to follow, and it is not a race. You have to think good. It is super addiction that you have. You don’t care about any other addiction, so it is very important to...

Understanding the environment can help, but other factors may decide not to do it. You will not do it, and if you do it, you know you are just doing it now. You will not do it again, but once you start, then you will go on. So who is this? And that is real. You see, if you are not dual, you have an ego. So you know something is not good for you, you decide every day, but still, you do it. That is the shadow aspect of your decision.

You see, you are their shadow. You cannot deny the shadow, so notice how much you look at me. That shadow is going to play into you. So, feel there is one path which everything bears witness to. I feel this is going to work in today's time. There’s confusion. I feel a confusion. When there is thought, feel that I am thought. Now, you’re being total. That is the real union of Shakti and Shiva. What happens? Shakti and confusion are going on. That is Shakti.

You are aware of that confusion. Now you are creating a problem inside here. Shiva can deal with it once you leave that confusion. Clearly, it will dismantle it, but we never come to that point of culmination. A little bit happens, and we immediately start to grand ideas. Let me do this, let me do that. So, you get suspended in cosmic time and lifetime. You get into that loop, your energy is never able to transform.

Take a new breath when you say that I am the anger you have kind of rip yourself. Know that fruit will fall. Was you say I am anger? Was you admit? Yes, I am angry. I am angry. There’s no division that I should be angry. You will be unable to get angry while you are getting angry. You are sitting on it and you say I should. I should and then you go boom. It will do it, but you know I am angry. You are more humble about it than I will point.

I want to tell you that listening, do not say this please. This is anger as wisdom says, because it’s basically wisdom or it’s energy, but it’s just repressed, so it doesn’t play any part in our life. But once you say, okay, if you can just tell somebody, for example, male-female relationship pretension status, No, I don’t want to really sleep with you. I am just trying to be friends. Your whole mind will play that politics game around it, and you won’t.

I really relate, but if you meet the woman, you see there is one part of me that definitely wants to live with you, but it is not my priority in that. You killed it, but I am not letting our things come into light. Even though, personally, you don't be afraid of this. Who I am, it is real. There is a spiritual aspect. That's why Shiva is called Digambar, the Naked One, meaning that you are naked in front of yourself, and such people are scary.

I know that inside out, and I look at you and say, I know that you're saying it's not true. I agree, but the other person plays the same game, so I understand. Understood? When blind people meet, they really welcome each other. The blind meet the blind with long hands because it's the same. So, in today's culture, we need honesty more than any technique—absolute brutal honesty. Where I am standing, what I really, really want: If you want a woman, admit it. Yes, I want.

A woman shouldn't pamper it around with the holy ideas and this and that. Yes, I want that in that you will, but when you say I can't have it, you're whole psyche, please stop staring, sir. Your whole psyche starts to say this is before I'm getting angry. I just tell him to stop. I feel like a perfect example. I feel like a perfect sort, which points out that he is psychologically, I could go. He thinks I'm a holy man, so I will just start to meet what I was saying, sir.

So that is not the point. So, I tell you that is the most difficult thing to do. It’s the most challenging thing to do for yourself. And you say, Yes, I like it, and I do it. The first time you are settling with yourself as you are, and the law of nature is once you settle with something, nothing stays. It will move on, and you will end up evolving. It’s not designed; you have to make to evolve. This is the mistake people think: I will evolve if I...

Make a decision once you have led totally the scene, the inside and out. You have just gotten off; your plane has taken off because it's no more interesting for you. It stays interesting as long as you have not seen the total hell and heaven of it. So same here, you live the hell in heaven in pleasure, but you postpone the hell and it pulls you back because it's not two separate entities. Heaven and hell, they are together. You eat half fruit and you see rest.

I don't want to, but it doesn't work like that, so it becomes attractive once you leave all of it. If you want to end pornography, make interaction between males and females much easier and smoother, without any guilt. Yes, when people go through a breakdown and break through when they realize who they truly are, and how they made stories around to justify themselves, and they thought, This is my truth, life will not leave you alone.

Will bring you to your reality again and again. Once you look at it and say, Yes, this is how I am, but the thing is, people won't let you relax with it. How you could do this? Why don't you just do something about it? Why don't you become so frantic for us? This is what everybody becomes so frantic about. If you like something, I like it. It's in your wisdom. See what you're doing. Always, you're doing it yet you're not looking at you doing it again.

You will see that you are doing judgment against your mind. You should judge this; it’s very important to understand your true nature, who you really are, and where you flow. Because your true nature is hidden in your flow, which you have repressed and put lots of justifications, doubts, and rejections on it. Otherwise, your true nature could be a very simple flow that you have rejected and made efficient into something else. Sri Ram Chandra.

Kripalu Bhajman, the remover of the dreadful fear of birth and death.

The way to freedom is not for those who fight with their nature

Satya Speaks

Addiction is often associated with smoking and drinking, but the true addiction lies in our thoughts, which consume our energy and shape our identity.

Facing issues directly, without creating a false image, is key to breaking this addiction.

Power dynamics and role addiction can arise when the original issues are not addressed, leading to hypocrisy in the struggle to overcome addiction.

The Complex Nature of Addiction and Guilt

Addiction is often driven by a person's search for pleasure and energy flow, with guilt playing a significant role in the cycle.

The struggle with addiction is linked to one's sensuality and sexuality, creating a conflicting relationship with pleasure.

Understanding the shadow aspect of one's decisions and the confusion between thought and being can lead to a deeper understanding of the self and the path to healing.

Anger is a natural emotion that can be transformative if acknowledged rather than suppressed.

Admitting to one's anger and being humble about it can lead to personal growth and self-awareness.

Embracing one's true desires and being honest with oneself and others can break the cycle of repression and lead to a more authentic life.

Brutal honesty is essential in today's culture, as everyone plays the same game of denial.

The blind understand each other, symbolizing the need for genuine connection.

Settling with oneself and embracing desires is crucial for personal evolution, as heaven and hell are interconnected experiences.

The Impact of Self-Realization on Personal Truth

Ending pornography requires smoother male-female interactions without guilt.

People often struggle with their true nature and the justifications they create for themselves.

Self-judgment and understanding one's true flow are crucial for personal growth and self-acceptance.