You have to learn a new art of seeing your contentment, your peace, your silence, your happiness - not as something that you had yesterday too. You have to learn to forget the past completely.
To be more exact, you have to die to the past so that every day your peace and your contentment are fresh, ecstatic, as if you have discovered them just now.
Die every moment to the past and be reborn again and again. Each moment has to be a death and a resurrection. Unless you learn the art of dying and resurrecting you will feel a little bored because it is the same, always the same, nothing changes.
You have lived your millions of lives in the past only through changes, hoping for some excitement. Arriving, you have to learn some new art.
Some new dimension has to open into your being: how to live with the eternal.
You have known only living with the changing, with the impermanent, with the ephemeral. Now learn the new art of living with the eternal, the unchanging, the absolutely still, unmoving — something beyond time and space.
Once you have learned this new art, you will find every day new flowers in your contentment, new stars in your silence, new showers of blissfulness and ecstasy. But you have to forget your yesterdays otherwise it will look like the same repetition.
I am not bored, and I have lived in utter contentment, in absolute peace. Nothing moves within my being. All is totally silent and still. But because I never think of yesterdays I am immensely ecstatic every moment.
What is past is past; I have never looked back. It is the same contentment, the same peace, the same silence — but because I go on dropping the past it is always new for me.
Learn the art of keeping the eternal always fresh. Don’t allow any dustto gather on the mirror of the eternal.
Excerpt from Satyam Shivam Sunderam by Osho (Courtesy Pan Macmillan)