The most fundamental thing is your likes and dislikes. Everything else is based upon this. Who you can and cannot be with, what kind of food you eat and don't eat, where you go and don't go, what kind of ideas you ascribe to and reject – everything is fundamentally rooted in your likes and dislikes. If you can take away this one thing, the spiritual process will not happen slowly, it will explode within you.

Likes and Dislikes

There are two ways to approach this. One way is to see everything in existence as sacred. Your work, your spouse, your child, your pet, your mother, and your faith - everything, including going to the bathroom - should be treated with reverence. Alternatively, you could see everything as utter nonsense - with absolute disdain - including your higher power, your physical form, your spiritual practices, and meditation. Both approaches will yield positive results.

How to Transcend It?

Right now, your problem is that "this" is sacred, while "that" is nonsense. Now, you're lost. That's the only bondage you really have. When you are in a mode where you love this and hate that, you are creating duality. Once duality is established, there can be no spirituality, because yoga essentially means union. You just have to work on that. There is no such thing as liking or disliking. Everything is either sacred or utter nonsense - which way do you want to walk?

Which Way Do You Want to Walk?

Read Sadhguru's reply to a seeker's question: "How can we allow the spiritual process to happen within us in full flow, and what might we be doing unconsciously that might keep it from happening?"

philosophy

Philosophy

religionandspirituality

Religion & Spirituality

mindfulness

Mindfulness

motivationandinspiration

Motivation & Inspiration

meditation

Meditation

The Two Ways to Speed Up Your Spiritual Process

Outwardly, a forest appears chaotic and a random mess of green and brown, while a pruned garden appears orderly and pretty. A chaotic forest can live for a million years, while a garden may not even last a month without maintenance. There is a deep order to that outward chaos. The question is, do you have the ability to see it?

Chaos and Order

Chaos and Order are, more often than not, complementary rather than contrary.

"Shiva does not spell religion. Shiva spells responsibility -- our ability to take our very life process in our hands.'' -- Sadhguru 'Shi-va' is 'that which is not', a primordial emptiness; Shiva is also the first-ever yogi, Adiyogi, the one who first perceived this emptiness. Adiyogi is symbol and myth, historic figure and living presence, creator and destroyer, outlaw and ascetic, cosmic dancer and passionate lover, all at once.A book like no other, this extraordinary document is a tribute to Shiva, the Adiyogi, by a living yogi; a chronicle of the progenitor of mysticism by a contemporary mystic. Here science and philosophy merge seamlessly, so do silence and sound, question and answer--to capture the unspeakable enigma of Adiyogi in a spellbinding wave of words and ideas that will leave one entranced, transformed.