The pessimist is the common variety. Out of a hundred
persons, ninety-nine are pessimists. They are looking for misery, they
are waiting for misery. They are convinced that something is going to
happen which is going to be wrong. They are ready for it. If it doesn't
happen they will be very disappointed, but they are waiting for the
negative, for the dark side. These people are certainly wrong, but then
because of these people -- and they are in the majority -- the other
rarity becomes very valuable: a person who is looking for the morning,
who looks for the white lightning in the darkest of clouds. When the
night is very dark he waits, because he knows now the morning is very
close. He is always hopeful. But I again insist that both are wrong
because life is both black and white. In fact, life is grey. On one
extreme end it looks white, on the other extreme end it looks black, but
just in between the two it is nothing but shades of grey.
One who understands both becomes choiceless. He is neither pessimist nor
optimist. You will not find him in either of the rooms. You will not
find him unhappy, you will not find him over enthusiastic about
happiness. That is the goal of the Buddha's: they are not in agony
and they are not in any ecstasy. They don't know any excitement; they
are simply peaceful, silent. That is what bliss is, satchitananda. Bliss
is not happiness, because happiness has a certain excitement in it -- it
is feverish. Sooner or later you will be tired of it; it is unnatural.
Sooner or later you will have to change, you will have to become
unhappy. Bliss is neither; it is neither negative nor positive -- it is
transcendental, it is beyond duality. One remains tranquil, calm, quiet,
centred. Whatsoever happens, good or bad, one accepts both because one
knows life is both.
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Thanks and best regards
J.Suresh
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