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I figure it is a most natural process for us ordinary sentient beings to begin our lives as innocent children, who "uncontrollably" grow attached to more and more things as we grow up through the years. The list of attachments evolve with our maturity (or rather, spiritual immaturity). From toy guns, to that puppy in the pet shop window, to credit cards and that shiny black sports car. The true beginning of spiritual maturity seems to be the beginning of realising the pointlessness of our picking up of more and more unnecessary things along the process of life. Letting go begins.
Ideally, the spiritual practitioner would have let go of every single thing, including his craving for life, before his death when he would have to go. Yet, how many of us are still shopping around? Picking up too much baggage equals to too much baggage to be put down. You had heard it countless times already-time is not necessarily on our side. It is time to grow up and let the letting go begin. The intensity of your attachment to your car now might be no much different to your attachment to your favourite toy car as a kid. Isn't that funny? Have we grown up in the truest sense at all? Are we are all not children playing with toys (the simple and the sophisticated) in the eyes of the Enlightened? Toys break and we cry.
Anything conditioned is but a "toy" of cause and effect-not the real thing you thought it was. A grown up grows out of toys. Let us want only our needs, not our wants. Letting go is self-liberation not self-deprivation.
Ideally, the spiritual practitioner would have let go of every single thing, including his craving for life, before his death when he would have to go. Yet, how many of us are still shopping around? Picking up too much baggage equals to too much baggage to be put down. You had heard it countless times already-time is not necessarily on our side. It is time to grow up and let the letting go begin. The intensity of your attachment to your car now might be no much different to your attachment to your favourite toy car as a kid. Isn't that funny? Have we grown up in the truest sense at all? Are we are all not children playing with toys (the simple and the sophisticated) in the eyes of the Enlightened? Toys break and we cry.
Anything conditioned is but a "toy" of cause and effect-not the real thing you thought it was. A grown up grows out of toys. Let us want only our needs, not our wants. Letting go is self-liberation not self-deprivation.
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