The Search for the Eternal Lover

You are all in search of a secret love.

And you are all

trying to find it in somebody

Hence the frustration

all lovers

except those

who are never allowed to meet.

Only those who are never allowed to meet are remembered,

for centuries, for their great love.

In the East we know

Shiri and Farhad,

Laila and Majnu.

Because they were never allowed to meet

by their parents and society

they have become symbolic of great lovers.

But it is strange:

they were never allowed

even to meet with each other,

and they have become the symbols of great love.

And what has happened to

millions of lovers

who have been allowed?

Not a single one of them

has proved to be a great lover.

All are simply lousy.

Every love affair is a failure,

without exception.

You may accept it, you may not.

One tries to hide the fact

as long as possible,

but everybody knows what everybody is doing.

The reason is that Your frustration

is bound to happen.

Your real love

is for the eternal self,

hidden behind

the curtain,

and you never look

behind the curtain.

You are just playing on the stage

and befooling.

Everybody’s

great love is to know the secret

of the eternal and immortal life.

Because you cannot find it in another person.

When you meet on the sea beach

it seems that

to everyone

it is the same story

That “this woman

or this man

is made for me.”

And Nobody is made for anybody;

everybody is made for himself.

You are not some

kind of manufactured parts,

that you are made to fit with each other.

So when you don’t fit,

then the tragedy begins.

Before that all is goody-goody.

The real test is after the honeymoon.

After the honeymoon the lovers are finished,

they don’t look at each other eye to eye.

The husband goes on reading the same newspaper

to avoid the wife….

A man in the pub

was saying to his

friend

That, “Why do you always remain silent?

You don’t say anything.”

He said,

“The whole credit goes to my wife.

She talks and I listen.

She does not like any interruption.

So after years of listening without interrupting,

it has become a habit.

Wherever I am,

even though my wife is not there,

I sit silently.”

The failure of love in the world

shows a significant fact:

that our love is searching for something else,

and because we don’t find it

in our so-called lovers,

the frustration arises.

Nobody is responsible,it is just that our direction is wrong.

The real lover is within you.

The eternal lover is within you.

Once you have found it,

you are

absolutely content

with yourself.

There is no need

for anyone

because you are no longer incomplete.

Only a buddha

is fulfilled.

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