Just Watch Your Breath || Acharya Prashant
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00:00 Maybe watching the breath is a convenient way to avoid watching that which really needs to be watched.
00:06 You need to watch your behavior towards your wife.
00:08 Instead of that, you are watching your breath.
00:10 Nice trick.
00:11 Smart chap.
00:12 You need to watch how greedy you are towards your customers and how exploitative you are towards your employees.
00:18 And instead of that, you are watching your breath.
00:20 Nice.
00:21 Pretty nice.
00:22 You need to watch your restlessness when you are waiting at the traffic signal.
00:26 And it's so evident.
00:27 It is observable.
00:28 Look at the tension in your calves.
00:31 See how you are constantly pushing at the clutch pedal or the accelerator.
00:35 That's something you stubbornly want to avoid observing.
00:39 But you want to observe your breath.
00:41 How exotic.
00:42 Seriously spiritual, right?
00:44 If you want to observe, look into the eyes of the bird being slaughtered for your taste buds.
00:48 But all these teachers won't tell you that.
00:52 They say observation means, you know, breath.