Don’t look for results

The ego is result-oriented, the mind always hankers for results. The mind is never interested in the act itself, its interest is in the result. “What am I going to gain out of it?” If the mind can manage to gain without going through any action, then it will choose the short-cut. That’s why educated people become very cunning, because they are able to find short-cuts. If you earn money through a legal way, it may take your whole life. But if you can earn money by smuggling, by gambling, or by something else—by becoming a political leader, a prime minister, a president—then you have all the short-cuts available to you. The educated person becomes cunning. He does not become wise, he simply becomes clever. He becomes so cunning
that he wants to have everything without doing anything for it. Meditation happens only to those who are not result-oriented. Meditation is non-goal-oriented state.