Satisfaction

There is a great difference between satisfaction and contentment, not only is there a difference, in fact, they are opposite to each other.

Satisfaction is pseudo. It is just an effort to cover up your wounds. The wounds are not healed, they are there, but only covered. And they go on growing, they go on becoming bigger, they go on collecting more pus; they can become cancerous.

Contentment is healed wounds. One has become whole. It is authentic. Satisfaction is only a consolation because we cannot create bliss we are miserable, so we create many methods to console ourselves. Contentment is not a consolation, it is bliss itself.

Once your bliss starts functioning contentment is follows it like a shadow. So don’t teach contentment, teach bliss. For centuries the other religions have been teaching contentment, but if you try to be contented it will be only satisfaction, a consolation, a false coin. That’s why this pseudo humanity has come into being.

 I start with bliss. The old religious approach was to start with contentment, and they used to say – and it has been said in many scriptures of the world – that the contented person is blissful. I say just the opposite is true, the blissful person is contented. And one who is not blissful, his contentment is bogus.

So start by being blissful