Learn to be dispassionate

Observe your mind. What is happening in there? Constant likes and dislikes. Wanting and not wanting - I want this, I don’t want this. Constant debate, fluctuation, cynicism, criticism, apathy, dejection;

Do you see all these fluctuations? Are you aware of these things happening in the mind? For a while, throw off everything. Just sit. What is happening?
That is dispassion, centering.In true intimacy, there is dispassion.

What big joy can you ever keep? Have you observed after laughing a lot and being very excited, that excitement cannot be held in your mind? It feels awful. You want to throw off the excitement and just be quite for a while. Have you had this experience?
Wisdom dawns the day you recognize that joy is painful. Your dispassion begins on that day when you notice joy is disturbing, exciting. You want to be a little quiet and calm. We have lost that sensitivity. That is why there is so much craving for joy, for something bigger. “Something must be better for me, something must give me more happiness.” This is feverishness. We move from one feverishness to another feverishness. The pain of joy is feverishness. So you move from this feverishness to that feverishness and from that feverishness to this feverishness. It is a constant struggle.Dispassion is that delicate balance that is beyond both joy and sorrow. In dispassion, any great joy can come up and it will not shake you. That is enlightenment. Even if you are offered the heavens, you won’t move an inch from your seat. That is attainment. Dispassion is the secret.You can learn techniques and you can learn to meditate. You can learn many things, but dispassion you cannot learn. It can only blossom in your life in time or with the presence of your teacher, your master. There is no other way dispassion can blossom. You cannot get it in books. Only experience will teach you.The highest wisdom that can ever be achieved on this planet is dispassion.

Anything can be shaken, but not dispassion. Anything can be bought, but not dispassion. If you are dispassionate, if you are centered, nothing whatsoever can shake you. The only rich one is the one who is dispassionate. Otherwise you can be tempted, you can be shaken. If someone offers you two million dollars and tells you, “Do this, do that,” you will move from your position. But that person can’t move one who is dispassionate. Suppose someone comes and says to you, “You tell this lie and I’ll give you a million dollars.” Just imagine what you would do! Think of it. Your mind will put forward one hundred and one justifications for whatever you will do. You’ll say, “Okay, so what. I’ll say this and it may be for good and if I get two million dollars, I’ll use it for the benefit of the whole humankind. I don’t want it for myself, but I can do some good work for the whole world.”