Sadhguru: How do you take away negative thoughts? Don’t identify any thought as negative because it’s just a thought. Who told you it’s negative? It’s just a thought, you are making it up; maybe you like it. What’s the problem? If you understand it’s just a thought, it has no power. If you think it’s a reality, then it destroys you. It’s just a thought, isn’t it? Is it true that you made up the thought? No? Sadhguru: Ahh you are having doubts about it (Laughter) because you are not thinking, you have a mental diarrhea happening. Yes, it’s simply happening. Thinking means… the word thinking means, you are exercising your thought process consciously, isn’t it? Yes? Thinking means, you are doing something consciously. Right now this is in the state of mental diarrhea, it’s just pouring all the time. Now what is negative about it, what is positive about it? What is negative is, it’s happening unconsciously that is what is negative, not the content. You thought about a devil, that’s negative. You thought about a god, that is positive, there is no such thing. The most negative thing that is happening right now is, it is happening unconsciously. That is what is negative about it. And more… a whole lot of people have destroyed themselves trying to stop those thoughts that they think are negative. And they try to fight them in so many different ways. You create these things and then you fight them. It’s your thought, you must be able to throw it and roll it back whenever you want, isn’t it? You must be able to roll it out and roll it in as you want. But right now, your own ghosts have become so big that you want to fight them. If you win, you are really lost. Because something that is not true if you fight and win it, you have really lost it, isn’t it? So there is no such thing as negative and positive thought. Either it’s a conscious thought or it’s a diarrhea. So how to stop this? See suppose you are having diarrhea, physical diarrhea, first thing to do is… every other treatment is next, first thing to do is, stop eating bad food, isn’t it? Hmm? Something caused diarrhea, first thing is stop eating bad food. Whatever caused this, stop that. This is the first thing you must do. Right now the bad food is just this, you identified yourself with something that you are not. Now you can’t stop your thought process, do what you want. You do any mantra you want, think of any god you want, do whatever the hell you want. The moment you identify yourself with something that you are not, you cannot stop your mind.
