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Questioner: For myself, and I’m sure many others, however, focusing on the inward is precisely the problem. How can this program (Isha Yoga program) help us do that?
Sadhguru:
I would say that the seven days is an opportunity for a person to explore himself. So it's a personal exploration for a person with the assistance of a master so he can look at himself like he has never looked at himself. The practices are a great support in that direction. Whatever we individually understand, unless it is substantiated by personal application, it will not become a permanent process within you. Intellectual processes will have an impact today. Tomorrow you will totally forget about it. Today you read a book and it seems to be so wonderful, life changing, but the day after tomorrow, you've forgotten about it. So, unless the intellectual dimension is reinforced with an experiential dimension, it doesn't really become a life altering process. It (the Isha Intensive) is an opportunity for a person to really seek the innermost core within him.
Then what you are doing in terms of practices (Isha Yoga) is just to mature your energies in such a way that if you sit down you don’t need to do anything. You’re willing to allow whatever happens. The very fundamentals of Shoonya meditation (a powerful process of conscious non-doing taught in the Isha Intensive) are just that, you are not needed. If something truly wonderful has to happen, you are not needed. If you want small, petty things to happen to you, you can do it. But if you really want something enormous to happen to you, you are not needed. If you know how to keep yourself aside, it will happen.
'How do I do that?' You can’t do that; you just have to allow it. So whatever you’re doing (Isha Yoga practices) is just to bring your energies to that level of stability where you can just be. Not trying to do anything, not trying to get somewhere, simply allowing it to happen.
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