Osho on Discontentment - Discontent is a habit of the mind

Osho - People are constantly living in discontent about everything. It is a habit. It is not that if they have more money and a better house and a better wife or a better son or a better job they will be contented -- it is not that. Whatsoever they have they will remain discontented. Poor, they will be discontented; rich, they will be discontented.

Discontent is a habit of the mind. Mind lives through it, it is intrinsic to mind; mind can never be
contented. Once you understand this a miracle happens; then you can put the mind aside because it is never going to give you contentment. That is not in its nature, so you are asking for the impossible. And what cannot happen cannot happen, it is futile. This has been the experience of the whole of humanity for centuries. Still everybody tries, hoping that he is an exception; nobody is an exception. And discontentment creates misery.

If you understand why you are discontented, if you don't find any excuses on the outside and you see
that it is the functioning of the mind, then the functioning can be dropped. It is very easy. The question is to see it. Don't believe it because I say it is so; you have to see it.

Watch your mind. Look at the past. Many times you thought if you could get a certain thing you would
be happy, and you got it and you were not happy. And you have not even taken note of it. This has
happened so many times but you don't learn the lesson, nobody learns the lesson. People go on landing in the same pitfalls again and again.

A sannyasin has to learn. That's precisely the meaning of disciplehood, the capacity to learn. Learn that
your mind is the cause of all discontentment and then there is misery and then there is hell. Drop the mind and with it all misery and all hell disappears and suddenly a revelation happens to you -- your innermost core is full of bliss. Just the layer of the mind has to be removed and bliss explodes. And bliss and contentment happen simultaneously. But first you will feel contentment because you will be removing
discontentment. So the first experience of your interiority will be of contentment and immediately you will
see bliss following it.

So watch the mind and all its tricks that it goes on playing upon you. To have a transformation nothing
else is required, only watchfulness of the mechanism of mind. And through that understanding things start happening of their own accord, effortlessly, quietly.

Source - Osho Book "I Am Not As Thunk As You Drink I Am"