Ambitions. Desires. Anger. Greed. All of these things heat up your system. Gurudev shares some anecdotes and lessons from Buddha's life that will help you slow down and stay chill! This is the perfect wisdom to help you deal with the pressures and anxiety of the modern fast paced life!
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[00:00:14] Activity heats up your system. The entropy is high and Buddha is cooling impact.
[00:00:21] How your system gets heated up? Food ambitions, desires. And you have desires that your brain heats up. Anga, greed, lust.
[00:00:34] These things heat you up. Lust can heat your brain up. And Buddha nature is completely opposite. It's cooling.
[00:00:44] So that's why Buddha said, there is sorrow. And sorrow is because you are heated up. And cool down.
[00:00:54] And how to cool down he said watch your breath. When you're not peaceful, your breath is very hot.
[00:01:02] Shakey and hot. He said watch your breath.
[00:01:08] Take deep breath in and do nothing. Just observing the breath and you start cooling down. And it starts happening.
[00:01:17] As a story, Buddha was walking with his disciples. They were thirsty, they wanted a glass of water.
[00:01:24] Buddha's disciples went to get a water from the pond. A buffalo had entered. So that pond water became so muddy.
[00:01:33] And so the disciples came back and said it's all muddy. You can't have a soda.
[00:01:39] Buddha just looked at him and he would go back and let it go.
[00:01:44] So when he went back by then, the dust had settled all by itself.
[00:01:50] If your mind is muddy, it is stirred up. Just let go. The time will come down and time will settle down.
[00:02:01] Give that little pause. So whatever your mind is going through, just take a little time for it to settle down.
[00:02:09] You can't be disturbed forever or all the time. You can't be upset all the time.
[00:02:15] If you are upset all the time, you can't even know that you are upset. Knowledge comes only in contrast.
[00:02:22] If you're sick all the time, you will not even feel your sick. You have certain gaps where you are not sick.
[00:02:29] Knowledge comes only in contrast. So he said cool down, calm down.
[00:02:36] He didn't exactly say this words but it's our October bellaries.
[00:02:43] Buddha never started a new religion. He never said I'm starting Buddhism.
[00:02:51] He was a sannyasi, he remained sannyasi. He followed all the rules of a sannyasi.
[00:03:00] But later on it became a separate religion. He created Sangha.
[00:03:08] Sangha was very important. Sangha also helped you to do it. Sangha stirs all the things inside of you.
[00:03:17] The stir, your bake and you become strong. At Buddha's time India was very prosperous.
[00:03:24] It was perhaps the richest country on the planet at that time.
[00:03:30] So it was easy for him to say to people give up, leave everything.
[00:03:37] See if you are hankering for something you can give up but you have everything only then you can give.
[00:03:43] Isn't it? All these disciples were highly intellectuals of princes, kings, people like that.
[00:03:53] He said everything is futile all is a dhukka, everything is misery. The world is misery gave it up.
[00:04:04] One is you undergo the misery yourself. Another is you learn from others misery.
[00:04:10] That's more intelligent thing. And Buddha learned from others misery. He didn't have to go through misery.
[00:04:17] He saw all the tins of life as futile, just in three incidents. He just got it.
[00:04:27] Oh, is this the life? Is this what we are going to do? It's what was going to happen to us. It's already happened.
[00:04:35] You see a dead body and say, I'm already dead. That much sensitivity.
[00:04:42] So he felt what the others were in no time. And that made him Buddha as a secret, as a secret.
[00:04:59] But then he didn't get a teacher so he went on seeking. At that time the jainism was very much prevalent.
[00:05:09] The jains do fasting. And so Buddha tried to do that. He did fasting. He didn't suit him.
[00:05:19] This is not the way for enlightenment. Then he said the middle path, all some may again everything.
[00:05:25] The moderate, the eight sutras he gave birth. That became very, very popular because he was already from the royal family.
[00:05:39] All the other kingdoms started taking it. But he said, 11 questions he would never answer.
[00:05:47] One among them is about God. Have you seen God? But he's gone. He would not answer those questions.
[00:05:56] So some people started saying, Buddhism is atheism because you don't believe in God. That's not the case.
[00:06:05] Because people already had so many concepts of God and all that.
[00:06:10] But he was against all the sacrifices that people were doing. In Hinduism there were sacrifices.
[00:06:19] And it is also, after long so many millions of years they had misinterpreted the scriptures and the sacrifices.
[00:06:29] Even sacrifice is not prevalent everywhere but in some sections.
[00:06:36] It said, you sacrifice your animalistic tendencies instead of understanding that they went to sacrifice in animal.