Sisya: "Guru, What is the source of the various forms of attachment we suffer from?"
Guru: "Dear all- we take great care to see that the house that our own and live in is charming, impressive and comfortable! We get angry even if a poster is pasted on its walls. Then one day, we sell it.
It is no longer the object of our attachment. Even if lightning strikes it, we are not disturbed! With the money we got, we purchase some fields. Now our attachment moves to the fields. Over a period of time, we sell them and put the money in a bank. Now, our attachment grows towards the bank account. Now what exactly is us and what are we attached to? It is not the house, fields, or money; it is prestige, comfort, show, greed – things that arose in our mind as desires!
Truly it is our ego that we are attached to. Each of us must take up some spiritual effort in order to cleanse the mind of lust and greed, of envy and hate.
Namaste
By: I W Sudarma (Jro Mangku Danu)
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