In this video, Kurt Stutter, the creator of The Sons of Anarchy TV series, relates his earliest memory of driving a motorcycle in his 20s. He recalls how the speed gave him an empowering sense of union with the world and allowed freedom to overtake fear. He asks Sadhguru about his own experience riding a motorcycle for the first time and what it has done for him.
At a stop along his month-long motorcycle tour exploring the Native American cultural mosaic, Sadhguru reflects on this question and his relationship with motorcycles. As a rider from the early age of 18, he rode and lived on his 350 cc motorcycle as he crisscrossed the Indian mainland for more than four years. Sometimes riding through the night and most of the day, he has witnessed India like few have.
Unlike a vehicle on four wheels, the motorcycle does not let speed go unnoticed. It presents a lot more danger and demands responsibility and regard from its riders. Needless to say, a distracted mind on a motorcycle is a recipe for disaster. Reflecting on his journeys in the yesteryears, Sadhguru explains how motorcycles unabashedly demand and exact a keenness of attention from their riders.
He also speaks of an inner stillness that accompanies him throughout his life, including on the bike. As a man on a mission to bring this sense of stillness to the world, the mystic on the motorcycle has successfully garnered much attention around social projects like Rally for Rivers in south India as well as cultures like the Native American tribes in the United States.
Even after all these years, Sadhguru has not shown signs of slowing down. In a Forbes article, he detailed his plans for a future motorcycle tour. “I am thinking of doing an intercontinental ride and will start somewhere in Europe, maybe in the UK, go through the rest of Europe and West Asia. What you call the Middle East, West Asia, and Central Asia. I will ride through Mongolia, Azerbaijan, and then to India. So it may take thirty to forty thousand kilometers of riding to bring awareness to the world. At this stage in my life, maybe that’s the end of me.”
As for the rush of adrenaline that accompanies many a high-speed rider, he has a different take. “I am not somebody who experiences adrenaline, as people say, as speed happens,” he shares candidly.
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