Contentment

 Peace is a state of mind, when there is love and only but discontent takes hold of the whole being and one starts to question a perfect entity. Contentment of the mind seeks ways and means to establish new boundaries and pastures in which it can live happy ever after.

And it is this zone of safety that most of us are seeking, the desire to be safe, to be secure, that puts us to the dullness of not being awake.

Circumstances, words, a gesture or an experience may awaken us and disturb us, but we want to be put to back sleep again.

This is happening to most of us all the time and it is not an awakened state.  It is the desire to be undisturbed that must be understood.

Desire takes many forms and is the urge to escape from what is.

When this urge drops away - but not through any form of compulsion, either conscious or unconscious -then only does the convenience and the pain of discontent is able to disappear.

Freedom from desires comes not through the conflict of the opposite, but with the understanding of what is.

As long as the mind and its desire is seeking to change itself from one to something else all changes are superficial and trivial, and the full significance of this fact must be felt and understood.

 When the mind is attentive to the present, without comparison then there are all possibilities of other things happening.

 Contentment raises the individual above the strife of worthless things and beyond the limitation of human nature.