When it comes to healing the discontentment within, we believe that one object is better than the other. We are desirous of happiness and scared of sadness, but we can’t see that neither can give us what we really want. Feelings and experiences are not to be taken so seriously. Don’t resist tears, cry gently, without suppression. Similarly, laughter can be organic, beautiful in its purposeless flow.
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Originally published in the The Sunday Guardian on 21 dec '24.
You look at the world, you look at two or twenty things, and an immediate discrimination arises within. You pick one of those things, thinking that one particular element, object, or option is better than the rest. That’s how the mind operates — it perceives diversity, and diversity bewitches it.
“Here is one thing, and there is another thing. I like this, I dislike that. I have to go after this and have to drop that. This thing is higher than that. Now, I need to go for the next thing.” At the centre of all choices is the assumption that when it comes to healing the discontentment within, one object is better than the other.
One feels continuously incomplete because nothing really satisfies us. There is always something more to be had. Also, there is the threat of the attained objects being lost. One event seems more favourable than the other. One object seems totally different than the other, and hence better or worse. After all, don’t different objects have different names, forms, shapes, sizes? All their sensual properties seem different, so they have to be different!
