When you enter into a space where gratitude becomes your meditation, contentment automatically happens. The normal contentment that we all know always comes with a reason. It is related to something that has happened in the outer world that has temporarily put your busy mind to rest, that’s all. When your mind is restful, you say you are contented. Real contentment is not this.
Real contentment is when you feel permanent gratitude towards the benevolence of Existence. Real contentment asks for nothing more. It simply enjoys everything without a reason; it needs no reason. When you reach this state, you will not know what discontentment is all about.
A small story:
A man once went to a doctor and complained of insomnia.
The doctor asked him, “So, you are unable to sleep at all at night?”
The man replied, “I sleep well at night doctor.”
The doctor asked, “Then what is the problem?”
The man said, “I am unable to sleep in the afternoons and evenings.”
(Loud laughter!)
We are all asking for more and more without any scale of measure. Even if we have a scale, it is infinite; that is the problem. We are completely blinded by our attitude of asking for more. We don’t even know where we stand, because of this. We haven’t looked inwards at all in a long time. We are just deluded by our minds. We are living such an ignorant life. We create suffering for ourselves inside and go in search of relief outside.
You are able to laugh for this joke because you know you are only watching it; you know that you are not a part of it. In life, many times, you are in this same situation and you don’t know it. At those times, you are not the watcher. You are so involved in the whole thing that it becomes such a serious thing for you. It becomes such a solid reality to you.
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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.
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