Be in bliss: Enjoy your suffering!

There are three simple ways to reach bliss, three keys.

The first key is acceptance of life. Never grudge or grumble. If you accept, you will have the intelligence to accept life!

A middle-aged lady went to Buddha with her son’s dead body one early morning, and pleaded: please revive him. Buddha knew that what ever he might say would be unacceptable to her. He said: go and get a handful of mustard seeds from a house where no one has died. She went from house to house, and was unable to find even one such house. Just like her, everyone had lost someone. There is no house in this world where someone had not died.

You worry and you feel others do not have worries. If you realize every one else has worries too, you will not worry. You need to see others unhappy to reduce your unhappiness.

When the lady understood the truth she became a nun. She said, ‘Even if you had given my child life, my life would have gone on as usual. Now I am transformed.’

Giving life is not a miracle; transforming one’s life is the miracle.

If you welcome all that happens with intelligence, you will be ever blissful.

The second key is the conscious decision to live joyfully.

The great master Abdullah was always happy, in laughter, in bliss. Some one asked him: how you are so joyful? Please teach me the secret of your bliss.

He said: every day when I get up I ask Abdullah, ‘what do you want today? Joy or suffering?’ Mind says, ‘I want bliss.’ I say, ‘have bliss’ that’s all.

It is like the radio that is tuned to a particular station. You get what you consciously tune in to. If you tune to bliss, you will get bliss.

The third key is this.

Abdullah is asked what happens if the mind chooses suffering instead of bliss. Abdullah says, ‘if your mind wants suffering, enjoy the suffering!’

The problem is the conflict that you have when you want something and you cannot enjoy when you get what you wanted. It’s like ordering food in a restaurant and not wanting to pay the bill. You do not like the consequences of what you desire. You forget that pleasure is not forever; pain may follow.

So if suffering happens, enjoy it as your choice.

Follow these three techniques, and your path and goal will be bliss.