Purple Magazine
— The Brain Issue #33 S/S 2020

sadhguru

interview with SADHGURU  portraits by MARCELO KRASILCIC interview by OLIVIER ZAHM   a spiritual-master success story: the self-realized yogi and sadhguru touches the lives of millions worldwide through the mental training he calls “inner engineering” OLIVIER ZAHM — The brain can be a positive or a negative force: is it something we have to domesticate or control? SADHGURU — No, the mind should be liberated. Why should it be controlled? “Everybody is a psychological creature, wanting to assign meaning to everything. Seeking is not about looking for something. It is about enhancing your perception, your very faculty of seeing it.” OLIVIER ZAHM — What do you mean by “liberated”? SADHGURU — To become free from all compulsiveness. What makes people suffer isn’t the brain — they’re suffering from their compulsiveness. People develop compulsive habits. And because it becomes cyclical, it hurts. Right now, intelligence is the only thing that’s hurting human…

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