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it is humming, it is singing, it is celebration... and yet absolutely silent.
OSHO (TO JACOB): You've been chasing bliss for your whole life -- and there's the rub: bliss is a butterfly, a bird that can't be caught; you can only wait until one day you find that it has landed on your shoulder.
It happens only when you are in a state of no-desire, with not even the desire for bliss. That is one of the greatest dilemmas.
It is a natural desire to be blissful, it is instinctive. It is not only man who is seeking bliss, all beings are in search of it, but the problem is that the search, the very search, is a hindrance. It takes you away from the moment, and bliss can only be found here and now.
All seeking and searching takes you away from the present. It creates future. Future is not part of time, future is a projection of our desires. Only present exists; past is memory, future is desire. They are not part of time, they are part of mind.
Only the present is time, because only the present is real. There are people who are searching for money and there are people who are searching for God; they are not different people, not at all. They are the same kind of people, although down the ages they have been thought to be very different, almost opposite to each other. One is condemned as worldly and the other is praised as spiritual, but the truth is that both are of the same category.
It is not a question of what you are seeking; the object of your search makes no difference -- you are seeking, that is more important. You can seek God, you can seek money, you can seek power, you can seek bliss, but because you are seeking you will remain miserable. Modern man is seeking too desperately because money has been achieved. Now money is no longer a relevant goal and the mind feels empty. Now the mind is desperately looking for new objects.
Unless the mind finds new desires and new objects, it cannot exist. It exists through desiring, so it goes on creating new objects for you to desire and to rush and to run after. You are running after shadows; you will not find them. You are running after the horizon which exists nowhere; it only
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