Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Nature provides you with more than you deserve. Understanding this fact will reduce your suffering. So keep this fact in mind: that at this moment Nature has given me more than I deserve. Then you will be grateful every moment of your life. The more you are grateful the more you will get. But if you think you deserve something more then whatever you may get you will feel a lack. This lack consciousness will keep on growing and will make you suffer more. So be humble. This is what is called trust, trust that Nature is giving you more than what you want, that I don't deserve but Nature has provided me with more than I deserve.

You know there are two kinds of joy. One kind of joy comes through getting. Oh if I get something I will be happy, if I get a toy I will be happy, if I get a toffee I will be happy. Getting will bring you certain kind of joy. Getting is the joy of a child. However this joy doesn't seem to grow, you feel stuck in this joy. But there is another kind of joy, a mature kind of joy, the joy that is in giving. The joy of a mother, you know a mother doesn't cook different dishes when she is at home alone but when her kids come home she cooks a lot of dishes, the joy of giving. We have shift in our lives from the joy of getting to the joy of giving.

When I woke up this morning, I felt joyless, wishing oh God why do I have to wake up? Not another day. Then I went back and listened to this talk and what I have transcribed above struck me like a hammer. That's what I had been doing all weekend. Yes there was pain but I was the cause of my own suffering by wishing, oh I wish I get some love.

The above meditation on reflection has made me more peaceful. Why even the sunlight falling across this table even seems much brighter and clear, full of suprise and possibility.

May all beings be happy. 12.30 PM