August 25, 2025
Whoever created the world and 'me' not intend that I must be miserable. It depends upon me. The moment you see this truth you begin to examine life to see what it is that makes you unhappy, miserable. Again it is basically these two - love and hate. Must all relationships be either swallowing each other or antagonistic hitting each other? Can we live without clinging and kicking? Unfortunately, these things have become so commonplace, so acceptable today. We don't mind extremes of emotion, but we don't like calm, tranquil life. We have reached such a state of perversion that we value those things.
We have begun to mistake possessiveness for love. If you see that jealousy makes you unhappy and it arises directly from this sense of possession, if you want to avoid the pain that jealousy causes, you will drop the whole thing. You cannot keep only one part of it. It is quite simple! This does not mean that you are indifferent to the world, or you hate the world (that's impossible). What happens is delightful, beautiful.
I don't see any difficulty or problem in this, nor do I see that such a life can be unhappy, sorrowful or miserable. Such a life is full of joy. You take the fullest advantage of every spell of happiness that comes your way, but you don't cling to it. If it goes, it goes. Therefore you are safe from the terrible distress that formerly possessed you when happiness left you
The second third of life's misery is expectation. You are expecting another spell of happiness to come. That expectation is more excitement, more tension. If it doesn't come you are miserable. If it comes and it is not up to your expectations, you are miserable again. What must you do? Drop the expectation and let life take over. If it has to come, let it. Why should you worry about it now?
You don't get hung up on past unhappiness or happiness. You don't get hung up on the future happiness or unhappiness. You're just left with the present happiness or the present unhappiness. Then you are quite not intend that I must be miserable. It depends upon me. The moment you see this truth you begin to examine life to see what it is that makes you unhappy, miserable. Again it is basically these two - love and hate. Must all relationships be either swallowing each other or antagonistic hitting each other? Can we live without clinging and kicking? Unfortunately, these things have become so commonplace, so acceptable today. We don't mind extremes of emotion, but we don't like calm, tranquil life. We have reached such a state of perversion that we value those things.
We have begun to mistake possessiveness for love. If you see that jealousy makes you unhappy and it arises directly from this sense of possession, if you want to avoid the pain that jealousy causes, you will drop the whole thing. You cannot keep only one part of it. It is quite simple! This does not mean that you are indifferent to the world, or you hate the world (that's impossible). What happens is delightful, beautiful.
I don't see any difficulty or problem in this, nor do I see that such a life can be unhappy, sorrowful or miserable. Such a life is full of joy. You take the fullest advantage of every spell of happiness that comes your way, but you don't cling to it. If it goes, it goes. Therefore you are safe from the terrible distress that formerly possessed you when happiness left you.
The second third of life's misery is expectation. You are expecting another spell of happiness to come. That expectation is more excitement, more tension. If it doesn't come you are miserable. If it comes and it is not up to your expectations, you are miserable again. What must you do? Drop the expectation and let life take over. If it has to come, let it. Why should you worry about it now?
You don't get hung up on past unhappiness or happiness. You don't get hung up on the future happiness or unhappiness. You're just left with the present happiness or the present unhappiness. Then you are quite happy!