Gratitude

I have heard....

There was a large Jeweler's shop, the largest store in America; The shop had completed a Hundred Years. So, the owners of that shop had decided that whichever person will enter the shop tomorrow morning, he/she will be given a necklace of a Million Dollar.

The shop has completed hundred years; So, he organized to celebrate the ceremony on the completion of hundred years. This will start the ceremony, Whichever the first customer will enter….

And the doors of the shop opened and a woman entered very fast. They played the band and all, surrounded by all the shop workers. The boss came; Put a necklace of a Million Dollar around her neck. But the woman remained standing like that. They explained to her that we had decided to give a necklace of one Million Dollar, whichever the first customer would come and You are blessed...

Then they asked her what did she come for? So he said, "To file a complaint." Major shops in America keep a register of complaints. 'To file a complaint'! And the woman did not forget to lodge a complaint even after losing a million dollars. That a Million Dollar necklace is nothing!

As soon as the festival was over, she ran and went inside the office and to the complaint register, writing the complaint she had to write. Even this gift of a million dollars could not please her! Even this a million dollars could not be prepared to thank him. The Complaints hs to be filled.

There will be some small complaints. You must have bought some jewel or something, there will be some complaints. The mind is full of complaints. The mind is always ready to complain.

You'd have seen how fluently and efficiently you speak, When you start complaining! Listen to people's suffering, Every person is a speaker when speaking sadly; Speaks very efficiently. Every person becomes a poet while discussing grief. They look for similar analogies.

Listen to a sad guy and he spends hours! They go on narrating; The end does not come. The tongue stumbles in happiness...

What are you suppressing? Why so much miserliness in giving thanks? What is lost in thanking something or someone? Nothing, you get a lot. And you may lose a lot in complaining, get nothing.

But you are your enemy. You do such work, which is ambush with yourself - is suicidal. What to ask? Just give thanks. And you will find that as soon as you gave thanks, and the joy came.

Because giving thanks means that you accepted the joy that had landed - accepted its truth, embraced its authenticity. Only then you can thank.

'I wish to thank you, but I do not know whether it really brings joy or imagination or exaggeration!'

Now how do you find it? It is raining.

Osho.