the grass is always greener

Before enlightenment, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

Afterwards, the grass is always lush and green right here

It is strange, is it not, this psychology, ordinarily, of wanting what we don’t have. When we have that thing, then we want something different. The mind is never satisfied. The thinking mind is always imagining somehow things could be better, things were better in the past, things could be better in the future. Always there is this comparison and always what we have in the moment seems inferior. In fact, this is coming from deep within our unconscious. The mind has a part to it which has become thoroughly discontent and it doesn’t really matter what we have, contentment eludes us.

With enlightenment all this changes. To begin with, comparison tends to drop away and without it, who cares whether the grass is greener or not on the other side of the fence? The grass right here right now is lush and green. The moment becomes intoxicating, always an adventure, always new, fresh. There is no need to look elsewhere, no need to look over the fence, no need to compare. The moment can be lived intensely in itself. In fact, with enlightenment, the fences themselves drop away. It is the comparison that creates the fence, the boundary, the delineation, the separation. So, when the comparison stops, actually there is no here and there. There is no fence. What is left is a lushness, a lushness of life, to be enjoyed right here, right now.