Sadhguru
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But we call this one a being because this can choose how to be.
They function by their instinct.
This can choose, even if my basic instincts are in this way, I can choose to go this way because that much awareness and consciousness is naturally invested in me.
Only if you exercise that, you become a human being, otherwise you become a human creature.
So compulsiveness essentially talks about we being creatures like everything else.
Is it right or wrong?
It's not about right and wrong.
It's just that we are not exercising our evolutionary choice that is naturally bestowed upon us.
We are not exercising that.
We need to exercise that.
Many simple things โ somebody is a smoker, to give it up he struggles so much, somebody drinking alcohol, they were not born smoking or drinking.
But it becomes compulsive.
Maybe there is a chemical factor to that.
But there is a chemical factor to everything.
Right now, I'm getting angry 10 times a day.
No, this is not a confession.
I'm just using myself as an example.
I could say you, but it won't be nice, so I'm saying me.
10 times a day, I'm getting angry.