Enjoy Life

 

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Enjoy Life

A perception has been created in the minds of people that money and wealth are the tools for enjoying life. We spend our whole life chasing money and wealth and it is never enough. This chase just gives one a high, and the chase never ends ….. we want more and more and more ….. and suddenly we find that we are old and never found the time to enjoy the money and the wealth.

Money or wealth per se are not bad – how we make use of it is that matters. Have we ever seen any person who has money and enjoys life too? It is almost impossible. One has to be a highly evolved Master to have money and enjoy it! Actually, there is a fundamental rule – one can earn money only if we stop enjoying life. Because that comes first – the necessity to earn money to live comfortably in the modern world. If one keeps enjoying and spending what one earns, then one does not have enough for a rainy day. So, in the struggle to save for a rainy day, we actually stop enjoying what we earn!

In contrast, one can look at the poor urchins living on the streets in any big city. They play and enjoy life without a care in the world – their faces and laughter reflect their joy. They enjoy all the simple things in life, simply because that is all they have and need. If such poor families win a lottery ticket, then the misery starts, the money and wealth corrupt their minds and the joy of life is squeezed out!

Everybody thinks that they need money to enjoy. By and by they learn that they have started enjoying having money. Once we have learned that – enjoying having money – we cannot enjoy anything. So, whatsoever we have, start enjoying right now. And if we don’t have anything, start enjoying nothing. But enjoy it immediately; don’t postpone it for tomorrow. If we want to become rich, we have to postpone our enjoyment. If we really want to enjoy tomorrow more, practise enjoyment today, because fundamentally it is not money that will make us capable of enjoying life – it will be enjoyment itself. Just start enjoying! 

Enjoy the coming. Enjoy the going. Enjoy the profit, enjoy the loss. The only way to enjoy is to just be what we are. We are not going to enjoy by getting things. If we are going to enjoy by getting things, we will definitely be depressed by losing things. True joy doesn’t come from anywhere. Nothing brings joy. No person brings us joy. We ourselves are joyful always. So, enjoy that. That’s what is called enjoyment. Depend on nothing, because nothing from outside can make us joyful.