Life Is Already Perfect
Everything is futile. One has to understand this. If you don't
understand it, you will always remain in illusion. Everything is
futile and in life there is no progress, no improvement, because
life is eternally there. Life is already perfect.
All that you try to do to make it more perfect is futile, but it
takes time to realise it. Now you are feeling stuck. You can do two
things. You can change your style of life and then for a few days
again you will be on a honeymoon - hopes and desires and
ambitions... and the possibility of tomorrow again becomes alive.
But after a few days that tomorrow never comes. Again you are stuck
and the whole thing again becomes routine.
It is just like when you love a woman. The honeymoon over, the love
is over. By the end of the honeymoon you are again seeking and
searching for another woman. But you can go on in this way from one
honeymoon to another but it is not going to help in any way. You
have to realise that there is nothing to achieve in life. Life is
not goal-oriented. Life is eternally herenow. It is already perfect.
It cannot be improved upon.
Once you realise this, then there is no future, no hope, no desire,
and no ambition. You live this moment; you enjoy and delight in it.
The feeling of stuckness is coming because you still have ambition
left in the mind. That ambition is creating the frustration that
nothing is improving - but there is nothing to be improved! The
trees are happy because they don't try to improve. They don't listen
to any foolish sermons of Vincent Peale or others. They don't bother
at all about the future.
Look at life. Everything is so delighted, right this moment. So be
delighted. This time, don't change and don't create another
illusion. If you are feeling stuck, feel stuck. But tell the mind,
'Now I am not going to create another dream for you so that you are
riding on the wind again for a few days. No more !'
Live with this stuckness and try to understand why you feel it. You
are feeling it because you are always keeping a goal ahead. You have
to reach somewhere, you have to go somewhere. Where? Life is here -
where are you going? There is nowhere to go.
Once you understand that, the stuckness will melt away. It is
created by you, by your idea that one should be always growing,
always growing. Where will you reach by always growing? Now you are
mature enough to understand that life has no meaning in the future.
The meaning is intrinsic, herenow, in the present.
So enjoy your food, enjoy the woman you love, enjoy your work, enjoy
your sleep, and forget all about the future. Then the stuckness will
melt by itself. Nothing is to be done. It is not a problem. The
problem is deeper than your stuckness. The problem is that you are
still hankering; the mind is greedy.
One day everybody has to come to that point and to realise, 'What
nonsense am I doing with my life? - wasting it in improving it while
it is already perfect.'
That's what I mean when I say that you are gods - nothing is to be
done.
Delight in the fact of your being. Enjoy the way you are and enjoy
the world that's available to you. Then each moment becomes a
diamond in itself. Life is no more a means. Each moment is an end
unto itself. That's what Jesus means when he says 'Think not of the
morrow'.
For one month, live in the moment, and even if you feel that
stuckness, let it remain there. Nothing is to be done. Tell it,
'Okay, I accept you, but I am not going to do anything. I am going
to live moment to moment.' And enjoy yourself. For one month,
without any goal, without the achieving mind constantly boiling
within, without any desire, simply live. That's what a religious man
is.