April 30, 2024
The yogi knows that all things in this world are subject to change, and therefore he doesn’t crave for anything, and he doesn’t endeavor to hold onto any pleasures. It is when you try to capture pleasure – to hold it back from flowing on, or to enjoy it again and again - that it becomes boring. As long as it comes floating, it is delightful; but you have hugged it and crushed it; it is dead. Now you are dancing with a skeleton - the pleasure is gone, only the dullness is left.
In the case of pain, if you allow it to go on, it will go away; it is gone. Otherwise you are unnecessarily and stupidly immortalizing that pain and suffering it day after day. It is gone. Leave it; let it go.
Prayer enables us to see the truth of the continuity of change, and thus we are rooted in the wisdom, which is the continuity in the change. The wisdom, the understanding, the perception, the realization of this truth, is the continuity in this constant change.