There is a vast difference between satisfaction and contentment.
Satisfaction is something invented. When people cannot reach they have to create a certain consolation around themselves. That consolation is satisfaction, that consolation functions like buffers… This helps you to carry on the routine life but this is not contentment; there is no joy in it, because deep down you know that it is only a deception. You can deceive others but how can you deceive yourself? … People don’t want to accept facts. They create fictions around themselves. Even if a person dies, people don’t say directly that he is dead; they say “he has gone to the heavenly abode,” or that “he has become God’s beloved…” So what was he before that? People want to avoid facts, and they create smoke around themselves. That is not contentment.
Contentment is a totally different phenomenon. It happens only to the meditator, only the meditator becomes so blissful, so peaceful, because he has arrived!
Osho is known for his revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation, with an approach to meditation that acknowledges the accelerated pace of contemporary life.
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