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Learn that Hope Is the Only Way to Change Your Life By Saha Nathan
If you are a robber, know that you are a robber, and live the life of a robber fully.
How can a robber do this? He feels relief in thinking that although he is a robber today, he will stop robbing one day. His ego derives some gratification from this thought. With hope for tomorrow, he steals today.
In fact, he is deceiving himself. He tells himself that he is not really a robber, he blames his circumstances for compelling him to be a robber, and he thinks that in better conditions in the future, he will no longer steal. These thoughts make it convenient for him to continue being a robber.
If a robber is fully aware that he is a robber, he cannot remain a robber for long.
If we know rightly what we actually are, if we accept ourselves as we are, a revolution can happen.
How do we accept ourselves as we are? If you know that this life has nothing to offer, then you do not expect anything except happiness. Expectation only creates pessimism. When there is no expectation, there is no need to feel depression. There is nothing to feel frustrated about. We know that everything happens for a reason. Even death no longer causes us anguish, because death is certain and we accept it.
Once you understand the nature of life, of the repetitive circle of birth and death, you will become a much calmer person. You no longer hold out hope for something better, and are freed from feelings of hopelessness. You are at ease. The more you are at ease, the more you are composed, in the moment, and unwavering. Standing still.
To be in the moment is the secret door, or you may say the “open secret.” People who seek happiness through events in their life will fall deeper and deeper into depression, because every time they hopes that a particular event will bring happiness, their hope will be shattered as soon as the goal is attained.
Whenever you feel that your happiness comes from another person, the other person is not the cause of your feeling. Only sorrow comes from others; happiness always comes from within yourself.
If you feel that you are in love with someone, the presence of that person feels pleasing. But is it really the presence of the other that is giving you happiness? Or is it your idea that you are in love and that the presence of your beloved gives you happiness? Which is giving you happiness? If it were the presence of that person that gave you happiness, her presence should give everybody happiness, but that does not happen. That same woman’s presence could make another person feel unhappy.
If water quenches thirst, it must quench everyone’s thirst. If you say, “This water quenches my thirst and mine only,” your words have only to do with you, not with the water. Learn to distinguish between subjective truth and objective truth. If water is water, it will quench anybody’s thirst.
Sometimes beauty pleases one person but does not please another. If it is true beauty, then anyone in search of beauty should derive happiness from it. But this does not happen. The same beauty may pierce someone else like a thorn and make them want to run away. One person may feel unhappiness from it, another may not seem to notice it, and another person may laugh and say that you are out of your senses, seeing beauty where there is none.
What does it all mean? It means that the beauty you are seeing is attributed by you. There is nothing real there; you are the cause and the owner of the beauty. For this reason, the same beauty that gave you pleasure in the morning could just as easily bring you unhappiness in the evening.
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