What if the calmest person in the room isn’t avoiding pressure, but experiencing it differently?
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is one of the world’s most recognized spiritual teachers and humanitarian leaders. He founded the Art of Living, which teaches meditation, breathwork, and service in 180 countries, and he is the author of Notes for the Journey Within.
Stress has a use, and Gurudev compares it to a pinch of salt in food, useful in that amount and unconsumable past it. Most of us have taken on far more than that, and have never learned how to put it down or work well with it.
Gurudev and Mike get into why he defines success as exhibiting your limitation, why he thinks failure is worth being proud of, and why authority over your own mind is the only authority there really is. Mike asks him when his body last went into fight or flight. He says it never has.
This one is for people who are working hard and running warm. What Gurudev points back to is small and repeatable, breathing and meditation, and he says the first sitting is enough to feel the difference.
In this conversation, you’ll learn:
- Why the mind needs something that does not change to hold onto
- What he means by success is exhibiting your limitation
- Why he thinks every failure is worth being proud of
- The pinch of salt, and how much stress is actually useful
- Why the question who am I matters more than the answer
Near the end, Mike asks him to finish a sentence. Mastery is… Gurudev’s answer: recognizing you are not there.
Enjoy the conversation.
“…I would say stress should be like the pinch of salt in the food, not more than that. If it’s more, it’s unconsumable.” — Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Resources + Links
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Website: gurudev.artofliving.org
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Books: Notes for the Journey Within: Essentials of the Art of Living, An Intimate Note to the Sincere Seeker, Celebrating Silence
The Art of Living Foundation: artofliving.org
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