What is a mind in the context of a cruel thought? One of the phenomena that we are all familiar with is worry, when you hear something that you do not like you start to worry and fail to stop, and then you start to worry about the fact that you are worried, and so you enter a vicious circle of thinking. When a person thinks that he should be selfless and think of himself (for selfish reasons): "I want to think of myself as a selfless person, because this is the person I am supposed to be" and in such a situation a person wants to become a selfless person, and has selfish reasons to be unselfish, what disappears will not make him a selfish person but will only turn him in circles. He says to himself, "I will be proud that I am humble."

A vicious circle – this is called "cheetah verity" = the rotations of the mind (mind = expanded mind). Yoga is just stopping it all. Can you allow your mind to be quiet? Do you find it difficult to implement?! Because the mind is like a little monkey. Jumping up and down and rattling all the time until you learn you can't stop it. Most people dedicate their lives to keeping their minds busy, and are totally upset when they are in silence. When you are alone in a waiting room, no one has anything to say or do and then comes this worry, the lack of familiar distraction. The simple truth is, I was left alone with myself and I want to escape from myself, so I go to the movies and read mystery books, go out to meet girls or get drunk in a pub. I want to run away from myself because I feel weird.

So why do you want to escape from yourself? What's so bad about you? What do you want to forget?

Because you are addicted to thoughts! that it is an addiction to a very dangerous drug. Compulsive thinking that lasts and lasts all the time – a habit. You keep telling yourself what's bad and what's good — you're reading your mind newspaper. Most people do not read a newspaper but the newspaper reads them. And there is a difficulty in stopping this phenomenon, and you must stop it if you want to be sane. Because if I talk all the time then I don't listen to what the others say, and then I'll get to a point where I'll have nothing to talk about other than my own self-talk. So if I think all the time, I won't be able to think about anything but my thoughts. And this is the academic mistake, books written about other books and not about life are added to the library. Especially doctoral dissertations are books about books about books, and this it does not lead us so far. So for us to have something to think about ahead (a real-reality topic) there must be a time when we stop thinking. In the later stages of learning yoga you can learn how to be in a high state of mind and also think at the same time, but first of all you have to learn how to stop thinking.

Well, how do you do it? The first and basic rule is, do not try to stop thinking. Because if you try it will be like trying to slide stormy water with an iron. And this will only make them more noisy. So in the same way that a puddle calms itself when you let it down, you have to learn how to leave your mind at rest. He will calm himself down.