Kapil Gupta: You Have Wasted Your Entire Life (but it's ok) | Clubhouse AMA

Society has conditioned you to seek happiness and pleasure behind every street corner. Your entire day is completely and utterly devoted to the search for small doses of pleasure, which you attempt to gather into large doses. And that becomes your entire life.... one large, never-ending chase. And that will never end.

Everyone's a chaser. Everyone's a pleasure-chaser. Everyone's looking for one dose after another. Haha, hehe with their stupid friends. Socialization, social media, this and that, Instagram, whatever it may be. That's what everybody does. No one gets fulfillment in anything.

The world is false. Society is false. Everything around you is false. The world is, in fact, evil. And it's evil because it is based purely upon untruth. So, all of society is false. Everything you see around you, all the books that are published are false; all the newspaper clippings are false; all the media's false; all the nonsense that the spiritualists talk and the motivational speakers and the self-help and self-development and the gurus, it's all false. And it's all false because it is all based upon getting you to believe something.

Mental models are stupid people. All of these things that you hear in the intellectual realms are nonsense and garbage. The mind has to be trained toward truth. And that cannot be done through any kind of academic or intellectual pursuits.

To have meditation instructors, which itself is unbelievable, that you have a meditation instructor to teach someone to meditate—it is sheer stupidity.

This disease is rampant across all areas of the culture, across all of society. There is nothing but prescription; there is nothing but method and technique. And that is why human beings never really become ultimate.

Spirituality and society and self-help and self-development and the gurus and the motivational speakers and the priests and the pundits and the best-selling books and the authors and the media and everything has done a number on you that is so complete, so unwavering—and practically irreversible.

Sports coaching is all the technique and the method and body mechanics and form. Those are the god of sports coaching. And therefore, that leads to nothing but the being burdened by thought. And so, the entire sports coaching industry has missed the boat.

Every facet of life has a truth. Truth is the only practical thing there is. So, every part of one's life, every topic one pursues, every discipline one pursues, every facet of his life has certain truths, and the rest are false.

The most important benefit for any child is to be around the person who is devoted to truth.

Almost everyone wastes their life because they do not look deeply into the ways in which they are conditioned.

What limits arrival is the realization of the truths that need to be realized in order to arrive at that arrival. And if those are not realized, it doesn't matter how long you wait.