Most peoples´ minds are busy
with things, and it requires understanding to grasp our right relationship with
them.
It is not about asceticism, or
love of lust, not about giving renunciation, or gather into barns, but about
being yourself present in passive listening, and herein understand your natural
needs, without this clinging to the things.
It was this realization Buddha
came to after he as itinerant ascetic in 5-6 years had practised all possible
penances, where he, among other things, tried to live of one corn of rice a
day.
He realized that this
self-torture didn't lead to enlightenment; that does instead the middle way,
where you give the body what it needs, but without being in the control of the
senses.
When you understand this, it
is no sorrow to give up things, or an eternal fight to keep them.
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