My Neighbor’s Grass is Greener

There is this saying that “My neighbor’s grass is always greener”. It is all about desire, desire to have something that you don’t have yet. The problem with desire is that it never stops. You want something that you see today and you fight for it, you struggle for it, until you have it and once you have it, desire strikes again for something that your “neighbor” just got. Desire is the root of unhappiness. How do you stop desire? You can’t actually. Trying to deny it, to repress it, it will make it even higher. Look at children. Try to tell your child not do something. He will start crying and he won’t accept anything else. He will wait until you will not be around, and still do what you told him not to do. Repression is not the solution. Repression creates something more dangerous – the obsession. The solution is to understand the futility of desire. Just watch your desire getting born, getting higher. Just watch yourself trying to accomplish the desire, and at the moment when desire is accomplished, contemplate carefully that moment, and say “Now what?” You will see that there is nothing there. You didn’t realize anything. Your mind will instantly pick something else for you to urge for having. The desire will never stop, unless you understand there is no point in it.