Sadhguru on How To Never Get Angry or Bothered By People

Angella Nazarian: Visionary Women is a volunteer-run organization. And I know that every person here is giving their time to one organization or another and the fact that you have nine million volunteers and you were talking about the relationship between volunteerism and agency. that it is through the will that you raise your consciousness, if I am informing you correctly or understanding it. In some ways, talking about how could be a door to becoming a bigger person than you are. Sadhguru: Look... Before talking about women, the first thing is visionary. What a vision means is to say that everyone has desires.

Desire is an incremental way to improve our lives. Today you wish, I must have a home, tomorrow your wish, I must have this money, tomorrow you wish for something else. These are incremental ways of organizing and reorganizing our lives that are necessary to get some things done. When you say I'm a visionary, what you're saying is that I have a greater desire that isn't just about gradually improving my life. The desire is about me, always. Vision is an all-inclusive process. So this in itself is something phenomenal, if

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instead of having desires, if they had a vision.

The vision always includes everything. The desire is personal. Desire leads to incremental changes and improvements. Vision can transform the entire situation. (Music) (Laughs) I like music. (Laughs) So, about the will, because you said that you are voluntary. Being a volunteer, volunteer means someone who does something voluntarily, right? There is no other compulsion. There are no financial obligations. There are no social compulsions. There is nothing else. You want to do something willingly. So when you are a willing participant right now, you are a volunteer. I ask all of you, right now, are you obligated to be here or are you here voluntarily?

Audience: Voluntarily Sadhguru: Oh, thank you because I have also spoken to recruited

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. I have spoken in prisons, I have spoken in many places. Then you are here willingly. You are doing something voluntarily, it is the fundamental of your joy, isn't it? Hello? No matter how simple, stupid, or idiotic an activity is, “I'm doing something voluntarily” makes a big difference, doesn't it? Hello? The difference between heaven and hell is only this. You are doing something willingly, that is your paradise. You are doing something unintentionally, that is your hell. Hmm? We have already assumed attitudes about what we like and what we don't like.

I like this person, I don't like this person. Now with this person I will do things willingly. With this person I will do things reluctantly. It can be two people, two aspects of life, two communities, two nations, two... many things. This I will do willingly, this I do reluctantly. This means that I have mentally decided that this is good and this is bad. When I hear, even on the national news channels, good guys and bad guys... it's just... Once you have this kind of thing, you're going to be disastrous for the planet. It's just a matter of time.

By the time you decide this is a good person or a bad person, this has become deeply ingrained in American society. No. There are no good people and bad people. Everyone oscillates between the two. If you create a wonderful and pleasant atmosphere, everyone behaves wonderfully. If you create an unpleasant atmosphere, many people will act unpleasantly. Yes or no? There are happy people and miserable people, but there are no good people and bad people. (Applause) The moment we think we are good, we have the right to destroy the bad, don't we? Oh, we've been destroying a lot of people for a long time, it's time to stop that.

Because...human beings are at different levels of experience and understanding. Variety of people. Anyone not like you is obviously bad, right? It is not like this? Those who are not like me must be bad people. Because the basis of kindness and what you believe kindness is is up to you to decide. No, you don't have to do that. Willing means this. I'm just willing. I am one hundred percent yes to life. I'm not yes to this one, no to this one. No, I'm just yes and yes to life. If you are one hundred percent yes to life, you are a volunteer.

You have become a willing life. You have become so willing that you have no will of your own. People ask me, 'Sadhguru, how do you operate with all these people, with all kinds of horrible questions they ask, they do this, they do that?' I said, 'My life is not about them.' It's about me. It's about how I am. This is about me. No matter what they are, that is their choice. But how I am is my choice. This is my way. It doesn't matter what they do. I'm like this. Because I haven't given anyone the freedom that someone can scare me, someone can make me

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, someone can make me happy, someone can make me unhappy.

I kept these privileges for myself. It's time for you to do that too. Because if someone else can decide what can happen inside you right now, isn't this the ultimate bondage? Hmm? Its not this? Someone else can decide what should happen inside you, what happens around you of course, so a lot of people decide, huh? What happens around us is not one hundred percent ours, but what happens inside me must be my doing, right? At this point, almost anyone can scare anyone because he is not voluntary. They are not ready. Being a volunteer means that you have no will of your own.

You can do whatever it takes. You know, we are a volunteer organization, this means all kinds of people... (Laughs) Most of them are not qualified for the jobs they are doing. (Laughs) And I can't fire them because they are volunteers. (Laughs) Angella Nazarian: It's true. Sadhguru: So people keep coming to me daily, 'Sadhguru, I can't work with this person, he's so horrible, I can't do it.' I tell them, 'Look, in this world, these are the kind of people that exist. like that, like that, like that, like that, that's the kind of people there are. But if you want to work with ideal people, you must go to heaven and today.

But if you think what you're doing is very important, you should learn to work with all these horrible people. It is the world. If you believe that what you are doing is very meaningful, you learn to work with all kinds of people. You see, horrible people will do wonderful things. Yeah? But if you want to work with ideal people, you won't find any. I haven't found any yet. (Laughter) There are all kinds of... mixed bags but (laughter) if you're willing, don't be yes and no, yes to one, no to another, you're just a big yes, you'll find far away.

Angella Nazarian: Thank you very much. I always say that resistance to life... (Applause)