Sadhguru on "How to Be Good" & other teachings

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From the Works of Sadhguru

​"A flower has no intention of giving fragrance to you.

A tree is not thinking of giving oxygen to you, either.

​The earthworm is not thinking of making the earth fertile for your crops. Again, it has no such intention.

But whatever they do - they are doing good just by being themselves. They’re living according to their nature, so they don’t have to think of good things to do.

Human beings only have to think up good things to do because we are not living according to our human nature. And we often think of "good" things that are unbearable for a lot of people.
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But this is not about doing good things!"

The Way to Be Human

"If your humanity flowers, what needs to happen will happen.

Just like when a flower blossoms, you don’t have to tell it to release its scent because it will happen anyway.

no one can stop it.

Whether somebody is there to appreciate the flower or nobody is around - the same scent will come. The flower doesn't produce more when you are there and less when nobody is around. It is on all the time.

That is what devotion is and it's how you are all the time. Not pretending when you see one particular person. Just becoming like that flower. We do this by digging a little deeper.

If you dig deep enough into this, that’s how this is. If you live on the surface, you have to act like somebody else tells you is a good way to be. There is no good way to be!

There is a human way to be.

If you overflow with your humanity, divinity has to descend. It has no choice. If your humanity is not flowing and all you do is try to be good; it is not going to work. And good is no longer good."

Bringing Up a Wildflower

"​​Do people grow up and blossom or are they brought up by somebody? People often say, “I was brought up here, I was brought up that way.” It is common in Western culture especially. 

Do you consider this absolutely ridiculous and humiliating? that a human being has to be "brought up".

You bring up cattle, okay? You don’t bring up a human being.

A human being is supposed to blossom by their own nature. That is why human beings are at the top, at least on this planet, in the evolutionary scale.

​And most human beings don't seem to understand or they are not allowed to understand and they need to be brought up. 

"Bringing up" means somebody is molding you. Molding means there is a predetermined shape."

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"A flower that blossoms today isn't the same as a flower that blossomed yesterday. But a mold means it is always going to be the same. The idea of making a mold is that we want to have the same form again and again.

Unfortunately, right now that seems to be the general work of the current education system, the so-called religions that are operating in the world, and of course the family. They want you to be in a certain mold. They don't want you to blossom like a wildflower because they’re afraid of anything fresh happening around them. They want something that is familiar and not something unfamiliar to be born around them."

"Jagadish 'Jaggi' Vasudev, better known as Sadhguru, is an Indian yoga guru and proponent of spirituality. He has been teaching yoga in southern India since 1982. In 1992, he established the Isha Foundation near Coimbatore, which operates an ashram and yoga centre that carry out educational activities." [Wiki] Click to learn more.

Blossoming Humanity

"So, if you have succumbed to that system, then yes. You’ve been molded into a certain form.

If you allow your humanity to blossom, then you will realize you don’t belong to any mold.

This is the beauty of being human, that there is no “a particular way to be”.

If you were a dog, cattle, sheep, bird, or grasshopper - you would be another way.

But to be human means there is no particular way. ​What is human is not defined, not described. It is just that.

​Being Human."