All desires are insane.
Desire as such is insane
because desire means living in the future
and the future does not exist at all.
What exists is the present.
To live in the present is the only sanity there is,
but to live in the present
you have to drop all desiring.
Desire takes you away from now and here.
Desire means fantasizing about the tomorrow.
Desire means:
"If this happens,
if I can manage this, then I will live."
You are sacrificing the present for the future,
and the present is and the future is not.
Sacrificing that which is for that which is not
is insanity, sheer insanity.
But that's what you all are doing:
sacrificing the present for the future,
sacrificing that which you have
for that which you have not yet
and may not have ever.
The tomorrow never comes.
All that comes is always today,
and you can become addicted
to sacrificing the today for the tomorrow.
Then you will go on doing the same thing
your whole life....
always sacrificing the now
for something which is not.
Desires are crazy.
They make you sad in two ways.
If they are not fulfilled
you will be sad, frustrated.
If they are fulfilled
you will be sad and frustrated, in fact,
more so,
because when your desires are fulfilled
then you suddenly recognize
you have been chasing shadows, illusions.
You have been trying to catch hold of a rainbow;
all that you find is that your hands are wet,
that's all!
All desires are insane!
The only sanity is to be desireless.
The only sanity is to be herenow.
This moment is more than enough.
Desire as such is insane
because desire means living in the future
and the future does not exist at all.
What exists is the present.
To live in the present is the only sanity there is,
but to live in the present
you have to drop all desiring.
Desire takes you away from now and here.
Desire means fantasizing about the tomorrow.
Desire means:
"If this happens,
if I can manage this, then I will live."
You are sacrificing the present for the future,
and the present is and the future is not.
Sacrificing that which is for that which is not
is insanity, sheer insanity.
But that's what you all are doing:
sacrificing the present for the future,
sacrificing that which you have
for that which you have not yet
and may not have ever.
The tomorrow never comes.
All that comes is always today,
and you can become addicted
to sacrificing the today for the tomorrow.
Then you will go on doing the same thing
your whole life....
always sacrificing the now
for something which is not.
Desires are crazy.
They make you sad in two ways.
If they are not fulfilled
you will be sad, frustrated.
If they are fulfilled
you will be sad and frustrated, in fact,
more so,
because when your desires are fulfilled
then you suddenly recognize
you have been chasing shadows, illusions.
You have been trying to catch hold of a rainbow;
all that you find is that your hands are wet,
that's all!
All desires are insane!
The only sanity is to be desireless.
The only sanity is to be herenow.
This moment is more than enough.
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