Expectation inevitably creates Disappointment:
How does one create future
frustration for oneself? By expecting!!!
Ooh May I enjoy such & such form in the future.
Ooh May I delight in this & that feeling in the future.
Ooh May I experience exactly these lovely things in the future.
Ooh May I receive my beloved favourite experiences in the future.
Ooh May I relish in only those mental states I like in the future.
Ooh May I be satisfied by solely preferred types of consciousness in the future.
Ooh May I Not meet this & that disliked person, event, circumstance, etc...
On the contrary: One is always content if without any expectations:
Let the past be past, passed & forgotten, for never to return to it again!
Let forms, feelings, experiences, hopes & mind here & now be as they may!
Let whatever arise & cease... May I relinquish all hoping & wishing for whatever
future forms,
feelings, experiences, constructions & types of consciousness...
May I
just
remain aware, calm, clear, content & unagitated!!!
Let it be, as it may!
Let it come, as it comes!
Let it go, as it goes!
Good is contentment,
with just what one has!
More on calm satisfied Contentment:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Contentment.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Calm_and_Content.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Cause_of_Contentment.htm
Source: The Grouped Sayings by the
Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya III 11-12
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
