ECSTASY BECOMES FRUSTRATION 🌈🏵️🌈 No love affair ever succeeds. It gives you great hope, but always ends in frustration. That frustration is in-built, just as the ecstasy is in-built. In the beginning it is ecstasy; in the end it is frustration. That frustration will lead you to go beyond, otherwise how will you go beyond? If you think, "The door is enough and I am contented," then nobody will ever move. Just think of two persons sitting together, bored. All has been explored and there is nothing to explore any more. THIS IS THE MOMENT! Either you can start looking for another man, another woman, or you can start looking beyond love. You have lived love. You have seen its joy, you have seen its misery; you have seen its heaven and its hell. Passing through that hope and that frustration again and again, one day understanding arises. Not out of anger, but out of understanding, one goes beyond. It is fortunate that no relationship ever succeeds otherwise, when will you relate to the DIVINE? Man thinks of the divine because love gives a glimpse, love gives hope. Man has to think about the divine because love gives frustration. All HOPES turn into HOPELESSNESS. Without love there will be no search, because man will not have any experience of hope and meaning and significance and grandeur. Love gives you a glimpse of the beyond...don't cling to it. Take the hint of it, and search for something more, go on search ing. Use love as a stepping-stone. Talks from The Spiritually Incorrect Buddha