Mind Can Not Hold Pleasure, Relief, Happiness
You can not escape, undo or erase any unpleasant feeling or thought. When you are safe and secured in the moment, only then unpleasant thoughts disturb you.
Can one see this?
Mind is troubled as it wants to solve the ‘unpleasantness’ now. It wants to feel the comfort of solving something Now, which can not be dealt with or solved Now. It becomes busy in fighting with unpleasant thoughts as if to feel comfortable Now.
Can one see that the fight is illusory?
Just seeing that nothing can be done Now to feel comfortable about the unpleasant thoughts attunes you to supreme relaxation. You are open to a new dimension.
Mind can not be at peace, it can not hold pleasure, relief, happiness. The more we try to hold peace, happiness, pleasure-the more frustration follows.
You feel pleasure, relief only against lack, desire, discomfort, uncertainty. Brain can not sustain stable pleasure, stable relief. It has to find some contrast (desire, problem, lack) to remain alive, to remain working.
If you can notice this fact-fused state may touch you. You are now able to concentrate on what you want or want to do from moment to moment. The issue of staying happy, relieved, satisfied drops.
The rest, the relief one feels by acquiring something or by solving some difficult problem vanishes when the momentum is over. Whatever you may get in the form of money or possessions and so on-the relief, the pleasure experienced has its momentum only for sometime. Brain requires fresh momentum to operate.
Can you see every time contrast is being created between ‘what you want’ and ‘what happens or what you think should happen’. You have to be comfortable with this contrast, this gap, this discomfort, if you call it so. This contrasting process is life, it never stops.
Once you notice the above, the issue of restless mind itself drops as this issue itself adds to the restlessness. The total ground is realised.
