Traits Of The Ego - Reaction & Response
In this conversation with Nikhil, spiritual teacher and guide Gautam Sachdeva discusses practical ways to distinguish the Mind from the Ego. The key to unravelling the Ego is developing the capacity to discern between response and reaction.
Reactions, Gautamji explains, are the production of our past conditioning, our sense of who we are and how life has shaped us. As expressions of individual nature, they transpire in states of unawareness.
Responses, on the other hand, are based on consciousness and full awareness of the physical and emotional repercussions triggered by external events. Responsiveness entails engaging external events as a witness, to understand how they might trigger mindlessly reflexive reactions, and to answer with compassion, equanimity, and ultimately, with Saburi, the patience exemplified by Baba.
As the seeker continues to witness all thoughts and emotions over a period of time without any judgement, there comes a stage when the reactions transform into responses. The key is to elongate periods of silence in the mind; the longer the gaps in the mind, the more centred we will be in life.
Chapters in this clip:
0:00 - Intro (Please enable captions) (कैप्शन सक्षम करें)
0:33 - Devotees on a journey of unravelling the Ego
1:25 - Life situations are always challenging
1:56 - Reactivity is a product of past conditioning
3:39 - An opportunity to look at our reactive self
4:15 - Distinction between reaction and response
6:00 - Seeing the Divine in all
7:00 - Getting stuck in the action-reaction loop
8:23 - Being a witness to one's reactivity
11:00 - Moving from reactivity to responding
13:45 - Being a witnessing presence during conflict
16:30 - Cultivating gaps between thoughts
18:41 - When reactions start turning to responses
19:20 - Tools to avoid being reactive
22:52 - Extreme emotions take us away from our centre
23:55 - Saburi - the best way to deal with reflex reactions
24:48 - Laughter, a natural response
26:18 - Outro (Please support our work)
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