{"id":121078,"date":"2024-01-07T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=121078"},"modified":"2024-01-16T12:23:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T16:23:41","slug":"death-an-inside-story-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/death-an-inside-story-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Death: An Inside Story Quotes From Sadhguru (+ Context)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How do some people unwittingly invite death? Where is the only safe place on the planet? Why should you postpone your meals by 10 minutes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someday, you\u2019re going to die. This is an obvious, unavoidable fact of life\u2014yet almost everyone in modern society has implicitly agreed to ignore it. According to spiritual teacher Sadhguru, this reluctance to acknowledge death leads to enormous and unnecessary suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read on for several <em>Death: An Inside Story<\/em> quotes that will give you a good sense of the book&#8217;s ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-death-an-inside-story-quotes\"><em>Death: An Inside Story<\/em> Quotes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadhguru argues that, if you form a peaceful relationship to your own death, you\u2019ll be empowered to live a more balanced, joyful life. More than that, it\u2019ll help you prepare for your death\u2014and what comes afterward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve collected several <em>Death: An Inside Story<\/em> quotes and provided them along with some context and explanation to help you understand where Sadhguru is coming from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cAvoiding death is avoiding life. Dodging life is inviting death.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadhguru asserts that, for some people, <strong>ignoring death causes suffering because it prevents them from appreciating the time they have<\/strong>. Unless someone recognizes that every second of their life is one they\u2019ll never get back, they\u2019ll frequently waste time and energy on things that don\u2019t matter. For example, they might get into petty fights with others and worry about parts of life they can\u2019t change. Such time-wasting only makes life less enjoyable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other people go to the opposite extreme: Instead of ignoring death completely, they try to avoid death at all costs. They want to live a comfortable, predictable, and unchanging life with as little risk and danger as possible. However, Sadhguru maintains that this kind of life is practically the same as being dead already, and it leaves these people depressed and aimless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThe only safe place on the planet is your grave.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you realize that there\u2019s no reason to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-conquer-the-fear-of-death\/\">afraid of death<\/a>, you\u2019ll have an easier time accepting it. According to Sadhguru, <strong>people who fear death are actually afraid of two types of pain<\/strong>: First, they fear the pain associated with death itself. Luckily, he says, death itself isn\u2019t painful\u2014on the contrary, you can only feel pain if you\u2019re still alive. If you\u2019re sick, the moment you die is the moment the pain stops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadhguru states that people fear death because they\u2019re afraid of the pain of losing something important to them. However, <strong>the only losses you suffer in death are those that can\u2019t hurt you.<\/strong> You\u2019re not really losing anything at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWhen you lose the body, your ability to discriminate is gone. All the memory and other mind-stuff are still there; only the discriminatory process is lost.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadhguru explains that dead people not only lose their bodies\u2014they also lose the ability of the rational mind to discriminate between what\u2019s desirable and undesirable. Thus, they can no longer make decisions to control or change their lived experience. Instead, the only things they experience are uncontrolled impulses. Specifically, <strong>whatever interior experience they had at the moment of death will continue for as long as they remain disembodied.<\/strong> Dead people will feel this internal experience to an extremely intense degree, since they lack the control to rein in their impulses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWhen you are hungry and want to eat, just postpone it by ten minutes. Be conscious of your hunger; do not get busy with some other activity. Consciously postpone your meal and wait.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Sadhguru, <strong>one way to practice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/eckhart-tolle-meditation-mindfulness\/\">mindfulness<\/a> is to intentionally focus on the experience of hunger.<\/strong> Just before you\u2019re about to prepare or eat a meal, sit and wait for a short time. Pay attention to the experience of hunger and notice that although food is something that your physical body needs, it\u2019s not something that your consciousness\u2014your true self\u2014needs. This will help you become aware that your body isn\u2019t really part of you. The ego-reducing effect of this experience is why fasting is such a common tradition in many world religions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cDeath means the end of the physical body; everything else continues and finds another body soon.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>When you die, Sadhguru says, almost all of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/karmic-law\/\">karma<\/a> that makes up your identity is destroyed. Your body, mind, and memories of past experiences no longer exist. However, <strong>your life energy\u2014the part of you reading these words right now\u2014lives on everywhere else in the universe.<\/strong> Because of this, Sadhguru goes as far as to say that death doesn\u2019t really exist; it\u2019s just a transition to a different form of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The only reason you fear death is because you mistakenly believe that \u201cyou\u201d are karma rather than life energy.<\/strong> You believe that your body is \u201cyou,\u201d your emotions are \u201cyou,\u201d and your memories are \u201cyou.\u201d Once you realize that these are all things that occur outside of \u201cyou,\u201d you\u2019ll understand that losing them won\u2019t be painful, and you\u2019ll no longer be afraid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do some people unwittingly invite death? Where is the only safe place on the planet? Why should you postpone your meals by 10 minutes? Someday, you\u2019re going to die. 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