Breath

Breath is the thread which ties you to your body. If I take away your breath, you and your body will fall apart. What you call as « my body » and what you call as « me » have been tied together with breath. And this breath decides many aspects of who you are right now.

For different levels of thoughts and emotions that you go through, your breath takes on different types of patterns. If you are angry, you will breathe one way. If you are peaceful, you breathe another way. You are happy, you breather another way. You are sad, you will breathe another way. Have you noticed this ?

Based on this, conversely is the science of meditation : by consciously breathing in a particular way, the very way you think, understand, feel, and experience life can be changed.

Is there more to breathing well than positive health effects ?

This breath can be used in so many ways as a tool to do other things with the body and the mind. Whichever way you breathe, that is the way you think. Whichever way you think, that is the way you breathe.

Your whole life, your whole unconscious mind is written into your breath. If you just read your breath, your past, present and future are written there, in the way you breathe. Once you realize this, life becomes very different. It needs not to be known experimentally. It is not something that you can propound.

If you know the bliss of simply sitting here, the blissfullness of just being able to simply sit here, just being life, not thoughts and emotions, then life would be very different. In a way, what this means is, today there is scientific proof that without taking a drop of alcohol, without taking any substance, you can simply sit here and get stoned or drunk by yourself - no hangover.

If you are aware in a certain way, you can activate the system in such a way that if you sit here, it’s an enormous pleasure. Once simply sitting and breathing is such a great pleasure, you will become very genial, flexible, wonderful - because all the time you are in a great state within yourself. The mind becomes sharper than ever before.