VBT – Meditation 54.1
No Conditions
Wherever satisfaction is found, in whatsoever act, actualize it – wherever! No conditions: wherever!
You see a friend and you feel happy; you meet your lover or beloved and you feel happy: actualize this. Be happy in that moment, and make that happiness a door. Then you are changing the mind, and you will start accumulating happiness. Your mind will turn positive, and the same world will look different.
One Zen monk, Bokuju, is reported to have said, “The world is the same, but nothing is the same because the mind changes. Everything remains the same, but nothing is the same because I am not the same.”
You go on trying to change the world, and no matter what you do the world will remain the same because you remain the same. You can get a bigger house, you can get a bigger car, you can get a more beautiful wife or a husband, but nothing will change. The bigger house will not be bigger.
The beautiful wife or husband will not be more beautiful. The bigger car will remain the smaller one because you are the same. Your mind, your approach, your ways of seeing are the same. You go on changing things without changing yourself. So only a miserable person leaves a hut and moves to a palace, but the miserable person remains the same. He was miserable in a hut; now he will be miserable in a palace. This misery may be palatial, but he will be miserable.
You go on carrying your misery with you, and wherever you move you will be with yourself. So no outer change is basically a change; it is just an appearance. You simply feel that there has been a change, but there is no change. Only one change, only one revolution, only one mutation can be there, and that is if your mind changes from negative to positive. If your outlook is focused on misery, you live in hell; if your outlook is focused on happiness, the very hell becomes heaven.
Try this! This will change your very quality of life.
But you are interested in quantity. You are interested in how to get more rich – in quantity, not in quality. You can have two houses and two cars, a bigger bank account, many things. Quantity changes: it becomes more and more. But your quality remains the same, and richness is not of things. Richness is of the quality of your mind, of your life. Even a poor man can be a rich man as far as quality is concerned, and even a rich man can be a poor man. Almost always this is the case, because a person concerned with things and quantity is totally unaware that a different dimension is there within him – the dimension of quality. And that dimension changes only when your mind is positive.
From tomorrow morning, for the whole day, remember this: whenever you feel something beautiful, satisfactory, something blissful – and there are many moments in a twenty-four-hour day – be aware of it. There are many moments when heaven is just near you, but you are so attached and involved with the hell that you go on missing it. The sun rises, the flowers open, the birds sing and the breeze blows through the trees. It is happening! A small child looks at you with innocent eyes, and a subtle feeling of bliss enters into you.; or someone smiles and you feel blissful.
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