Life is full of Problem-

Life is not easy and simple but it is filled with many problems that can never be solved. Every single situation demands that we review all the options before we can come to any solution.

We should not worry and become upset because we cannot solve problems permanently and forever. Sometimes we have partial solutions to the problems. But we should not forget that way solution brings new problems. This does not mean that we should not try partial solutions. Each of us has abilities but we have to develop these abilities to overcome a problem. Abilities without efforts are nothing.

Many times in life we put the cart before the horse. We do not put things in proper perspective and therefore, we come to false conclusions. It is very difficult to know what the right way to solve our problems is.

Sometimes we must confront them head on. Other times, we must be flexible, diplomatic and be willing to zig and zag and maybe even backtracks a little in order to solve them. We must overcome our obstacles in order to thrive and grow.

Life is filled with all sorts of unexpected twists and turns. Life is filled with darkness, thunder and lightning. Tears are inevitable in life but there is still also a lot of joy in life and we can feel that joy.

The light, the joy must be refracted through the tears. But life can still bring us happiness and joy like the rainbow. It is the love and concern for each other, which allows us to overcome all obstacles. It is the love and concern of our parents, which allows us and still allows us to overcome the many trials and tribulations of life.

George Bernard Shaw said that man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

One of the difficult problems in life is how can we be reconciled with our enemies. In life, there will always be disputes, exchange of words, threats and blows. This happens within families, friends, within and between Nations. War many times is a product of these disputes.

The major problem on earth is not the bomb or nuclear or chemical weapons. These are actually the products of the problems. The main problem is that the human imagination has not yet expanded to the point where it comprehends its own essential unity.

That these unfortunates/seek after the goodness whose source within they bear’ this golden verse of Pythagoras reveals the meaning of life, which has been cursed and poisoned by none else but human beings themselves. Pythagoras says that people who go on seeking and searching for bliss and happiness are unfortunate. No body has cursed them, they have cursed themselves.

We are constantly running after power, position and self in the hope that they will provide happiness but we are sadly mistaken. We are searching for happiness in the outside worlds whereas the source of happiness is within us. This is the folly we commit.

Seeking means we are running after something – some shadow, illusion, dream, and desire. And it is this desire, dream that makes life miserable. What Pythagoras says in not different from what Buddha said: that we suffer on account of our desire? Here both Buddha and Pythagoras spell the same message to drop the desire, which means to stop running after something and to stop running after something means to drop the mind. Mind always thinks in terms of achievements. To achieve more money, high flying post and much popularity. Mind exists through goals, mind exists in the future.

That’s why human suffering is tremendous. In suffering we run towards temples, mosques, synagogues, churches etc but alas! Our suffering doesn’t come to an end. Even when we go to the temples and mosques to offer prayers, we go with our minds that are with some goals and desires in our minds.

That’s why Pythagoras says, “Don’t be goal-oriented. Goal –orientation is the way of mind. Mind exists in ambition, in future. So drop the mind that is, to live in the stage of no-mind.”

Pythagoras calls those peoples unfortunate who live in the mind, who live in the tomorrow. And when one lives in the tomorrow, he automatically lives in the yesterday also. But the yesterday is no more and the tomorrow is not yet. Between the two is the present moment, which we have been missing and unfortunately we are sandwiched between theses two falsities.

Acharya Rajneesh says that our misery is our whole invention. Nature knows no future; nature is always here – this very moment. The enlightened person lives in no-mind. No- mind is enlightenment.

The Enlightened one can’t be goal-oriented for he has no future, for him all is present. The stage of mindlessness is the stage of being religious – when no desire exists, no passion exists. Buddha laid emphasis on meditation that simply means no-mind-stage of “mindlessness”. But the term mindlessness should not be confused with the term “unmindful”. Buddha says that it is possible only when we drop our egos. The moment ego disappears, everything becomes crystal clear inside. And when there is no body inside, only god remains. When one disappears, he appears. Then whole existence overflows with godliness.