There are only two types of people in the worl
There are only two types of people in the world: a few people are deceived by the past -- their golden age is always in the past; and a few people are deceived by the future -- their utopia is in the future... and both are deceived.
There are only very rare, fortunate people who are not deceived by the past or by the future... who live in the moment like the lilies in the field, who don't think of the morrow, who are utterly satisfied with this moment whatsoever it brings.
Yes, sometimes it brings sadness but to be satisfied with sadness is blissful. That may look paradoxical but it is true.
If you can be contented with your sadness, suddenly you will see a bliss arising out of it.
Bliss has nothing to do with happiness or unhappiness, bliss has something to do with contentment. If you are contented even with unhappiness, there will be bliss; if you are discontented even with happiness, there will be un-bliss, there will be misery.
So bliss is not equivalent to happiness, bliss is the attitude of contentment.
Whatsoever is... sadness, it's okay. If there is unhappiness it's okay, one accepts it. What else can one do? -- one is helpless. Out of that acceptance, suddenly a great bliss arises. That bliss comes only by being true.
We have been taught to be untrue in a thousand and one ways: we have been taught how to wear masks, how to have false faces, how to act, how to play -- all games.
And because of those games and those lies, we become unavailable to bliss. Bliss is whenever we are true, whenever we are authentic, whenever we are not pretending, whenever we are absolutely the way we are and there is no hide-and-seek game going on.
If one can be just the way one is, suddenly there is benediction, there is bliss, there is great blessing.
_Abridged From:_
*Far Beyond the Stars*
(A Darshan Diary)
_Talks given from 1/7/77 to 31/7/77_
*OSHO*
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