Psychological Luxury is Enjoyment
We have added physical conveniences and luxuries. But have lost psychological luxury.
Can you see that you are physically safe and sound now, not feeling any physical inconvenience? The role of physical luxury is over here. One adds more physical conveniences as if it will give psychological luxury. The mind creates as if discomfort and uncertainty, confusion, conflict of choices, and so on will also be over.
Enjoyment happens when you have the psychological luxury. Psychological luxury is not linked to having more or less.
When you do not run away from the uneasiness of irritating situations and uncertainty by complaining or solacing explanations — You begin to see psychological luxury. You begin to see psychological self-sufficiency. Awakening happens.
You want to escape from your daily life which is beset with compulsions, adjustments, and unsolved confusions by holidaying, by entertainment, by intoxication, by religious-spiritual activities, and ideas. In fact, we want to run away from the uneasiness, compulsions, unsolved confusions, adjustments create in us.
If you can rest with this uneasiness, this discomfort — the need for escape is no longer there. You have found the source of entertainment, and enjoyment.
You have to stop all solace or complaining that arises to divert from the pain of sadness, confusion, fear, and frustration.
Mind is hooked on hopes and future promises, and tomorrow will be alright — thus misses contact with ‘what is’.
Why abandon hope?
Hope as an escape from what is being experienced now is bondage to pain from where one is running. When you do not run away from your pain, an image for the next moment comfortable to you is automatically created. This is the natural momentum on which the brain works. Otherwise, you are trying to fix the next moment to your pattern. You miss the automation. You become busy fighting an illusory battle.
