If you know how to enjoy a rose flower, a green tree in your courtyard, the mountains, the river, the stars, the moon, if you know how to enjoy people, you will not be so much obsessed with money. The obsession is arising because we have forgotten the language of celebration. Osho
Subject: That day you become mature
The day you decide not to ask for things you like but rather to like things that happen, that day you become mature.
We can always keep wanting what we like. But that will make you always miserable, because the world does not run according to your likes and dislikes. There is no guarantee that what you want, life also wants; there is no guarantee. There is every possibility that life is destined toward something that you don't know anything about at all.
When sometimes the thing you like does happen, you will still not feel very happy, because whatever we demand, we have already lived in fantasy. So it is already secondhand. If you say that you would like a certain man to be your lover, then in many dreams and in many fantasies you have already loved that man. And if it happens, then the real man is going to fall short of your fantasy; he is going to be just a carbon copy, because reality is never as fantastic as fantasy. Then you will be frustrated.
Its also a part of Sikhism where there is a clause...Tera Bhana meetha laage, meaning whatever you ordain for me is sweet...or acceptable.
But if you start liking that which is happening-if you don't put your own will against the whole, if you simply say okay-whatever happens, you simply say yes--then you can never be miserable. Because no matter what happens, you are always in a positive attitude, ready to receive it and enjoy it.
Osho
