thoughts on possessions From a Sufi mystic says, he was on his pilgrimage so disconnected from worldly things was that he carried a cup and a comb with him. But he threw away the cup after he saw a man drinking from his hand, and the ridge when he saw another man using his fingers instead of a comb.
This story points to the never-ending process that leads to the possession of possessions, and the gesture of throwing away is one that exudes something of beauty and liberation. Is merely the condition of receptivity.
once I got a letter from a family man who wrote to me that he had thrown off his car after he had informed on air pollution and CO2 emissions. He needs now almost three times as long to get to work, but felt freer than before. This letter was for me a kind of beauty that comes from a dignity to the soul.
possessions (in Farsi: Faqr) Rumi is home to all beauty.
What is property?
possession often seems like a life-threatening drug that weakens the Judgement. Lust for power, apparent safety and decreasing emergency for the real sets itself with possession, and fear creeps in with every franc, one has to guard it.
The slope of the Striving for possessions are really searching for the rest, because we think if we had everything, it was finally quiet. Paradoxically, however, represent the mentality of owning unrest and fears of losing one. We carry a latent knowledge in us, before which most people defend themselves with great effort: that the possession of things is incompatible with the thirst of the soul and nourishes us in any way, as our innermost being no single point of contact is with the things you may have. There are two types of disaster that not getting what one wants and getting what you want.
If you have achieved everything that we longed for and what the collective is desirable - wealth, Recognition, property, services - is the emptiness. You can tell that they just constantly moves the horizon of his desire. It does not feel satisfied - at least not for long.
In our secular society is lucky to be misunderstood as to satisfy the consumption possibilities (as sense gratification) and will be confused with an infinite "must-have" (greed). The basic desires - property, power need satisfaction are just compensating for the inherent lack of knowledge of an already - given by God - meaning.
will have for example, the dependence of the self. Possession of the owner occupied and impinges on the consciousness which is now only focused on objects. "When the mind is directed to the inanimate, whose dullness is the result." (BG 9:25 and 8.6)
The Own Will, the nude -. And permeability are for God, what actually constitutes a gift, now appears suddenly as a threat to self life easier things of daily use are a kind of seduction through to owner mentality of greed and avarice addiction. Are you a lean and get used to the ankle of the determinateness of circumstances in the outside.
The simplicity of the vulnerable openness fosters in us, the permeability for the Sri Krishna's reality. The anarchy of love maps the structures of the world very differently. They mocked the divisions of society that are based on ownership. It knows no boundaries and convention openings are a sign of their tender way.
What does to the possession of people, is that it is the nakedness in which we are born, destroyed. "I came naked from my mother's womb," said Job, after his property and children were taken (Job 1.21)
property is seeking to have that initial condition, it is a defense to a isolated from the original. The inner path leads to it, remove everything that one could protect the wonders of love. The Do-Do
adheres to a sticky element, namely the fast-growing dependence on consumption habits, without which no longer seems to get along. But as things always convey an emptiness, you think that we should only have more of it. The person loses his distance from the things-use and ownership is dominated by desire, then quickly grows out of a very different life relationship.
The ownership relationship, which assumes a right of the object as a matter of course, became widespread and the result is control. It is the antithesis of everything that is God's gift and the attitude is the gratitude in it.
"For those of temporary pleasure (pleasure) and wealth (power) depend, and whose thinking is distracted by this impermanent, it is impossible to concentrate with a determined will power on the Supreme. "(Bhagavad Gita 2.44)
When the Bishop of Assisi, St. Francis again on his perilous life of penury spoke, he was told: "Sir, we would have something, we should also have weapons in our defense. Hence come the arguments and battles that hinder so many ways the love of God and fellow human beings. Therefore we do not own anything in the temporal world. "
There is a connection line, a causal relationship, between I-claim Property and power.
If the ego is dissolved as a role in the outside, then it is also all claim that one of the world as the "I thought that it would be. Violence is all the energy and effort that you invested to implement the I-thought in the outside world.
will or desire, knowledge, or available, or possession are in a context of "governance" means.
Meister Eckhart mentions in his famous sermon three conditions of poverty "internal poverty": the nothing-Do, the not-knowing and the nothing-Do. be naked.
have meant nothing to dispose of anything as a ruler.
AUTHORITY dependent and destroyed the brotherhood of a group. About wealth creates order and subordination, domination and creates limits and creates war, because those same borders must be defended. Unity, participation and solidarity always mean the rejection of everything dividing, of all that divides life and splits. This is commonly seen, and in relation to nature.
for Francis of Assisi is the fire his brother and his sister the water. This is a stark contrast to what Descartes formulated as our human task, namely to be "maîtres de la nature et possesseurs.
When the poverty and Only be praised and appreciate, one must always distinguish between a freely chosen poverty and are pushed into the people, without being asked. Although there are overlaps, that inherited poverty adopted voluntarily or forced, even welcomed as a gift from God and subsequently to speak freely chosen poverty can arise. The joy
legitimacy on the poverty status of poverty is not.
Just as an ego is necessary to destroy the ego structure to proceed, it probably needs a piece of property, before you learn the throwing away.
How far can go as the voluntary poverty, Dorothy Day, an American anarchist who became Catholic. The city had expropriated the house of her community for an underground railway. Two thirds of the restitution has been paid, but the rest they had to wait two years. The city then gave her the final payment with interest for the delay. She sent the interest money back to the tax authorities with the following letter:
"This is to give back the interest on the money we have received from them recently, because we do not believe in loans with interest. As Catholics, we do not believe in the profit system. People who have a materialistic point of view, intoxicated with success and look forward to monetary gain. We will try to fulfill our duty as we do our services without having to ask our brothers and sisters pay, as Jesus was exemplified by his Gospel. to issue interest-bearing loans as a hostage of the basic culture is considered.
Since the Scriptures teach that loving money is the root of evil, we use this opportunity to live our faith in practice. "
Voluntary Poverty is the condition for credibility in the outer and inner freedom. The coexistence of
Erdlebewesen is so threatened that the resistance against profit - greed and consumerism is not only an ascetic religious calling, but has become a beacon of hope of working together is.
voluntary poverty, simplicity, freedom on the one hand from bondage to things, but also has a cosmopolitan component: in a world that lives in which 2 / 3 of humanity with less than 2 dollars a day, I may wrap it with all that junk? It is always easier to do something voluntarily, when under duress. The release will happen so easily, but the death penalty is then to a terrible struggle.
What is renunciation?
waiver is essential to let go of my imaginary relationship to things in the world that you thought that things could be per se a joy or sorrow.
Umesh has a wife, a son, a close friend, a servant in the house, neighbors and anyone who owes him money. Suddenly he dies ....
The woman is crying bitterly unconscious from the pain, the son, the friend is sad, the servant is insecure - because he might lose his job - and the neighbors sit together at the dinner table and a neighbor informed her husband that Umesh had died today .
A person is happy when he hears it .........
Somehow, doctors Umesh but back to life ..... The woman faints with joy at the son is crying tears of joy, etc. .......
Now the important question arises: Is Umesh the cause of happiness and sorrow?
No, it's just our relationship with him, the joy and suffering generated.
If the external world, the cause of happiness and sorrow? It is only our relationship to it, the happiness and suffering generated. Nearly all mankind is in a war in a battle with the exterior. Simplicity, corrected possessions, our relationship to the world.
believe people to be able to expand by holding their inner trophy collection. This is a hope for fulfillment, which was projected into the outside. On a path of knowledge is not to say that we are to win anything at all, could we still do not have to believe - freedom, happiness, peace, silence.
But, it is anything to lose.
The psychotherapist and sociologist Erich Fromm (1900-1980) In "To Have or being" made a distinction between ownership pertaining to the use or "functional", and the mere possession, has no practical value, but the social status of the ego, securing the future or who Autonomy is pure greed.
identity can not be compensated with ownership.
The loss is associated with the pain of parting with the pain of losing and of being lost, with loss of identity, which is precisely happened to these things and where we hold and orient ourselves. We have no positive relation to the moment of loss.
We are like beggars on their last shirt , Want to hold in reality but in a kingdom of abundance, we can recognize, because we are so busy to fight our last shirt.
of Knowledge is always a path of conscious and completely accepted losing.
The willingness to lose everything is not something external. That would be a trivialization. Children give up, partner, residence, all their possession, occupation and all the collateral - that is not even the forecourt of the internal dissipation at issue is essential. It is the loss of all that we might call "me" and knows "my" and acceptance. This is the old world, people are not ready to leave, because they follow the old teachers of fear and uncertainty - the fear of the infinite void, if this identification role is no more.
By Francis of Assisi once said: 'Every kingdom a thief or a thief heritage. " The word of the French Enlightenment and the cornerstone of Marxist philosophy to modern times, 'Property is theft', has a venerable tradition.
Saint Francis put it more precisely: 'By the property of the people will fight and make the love of God and neighbor prevented, it is harder from the palace, but to come out of the cabin in the sky. " "Jesus Christ himself
called absolute poverty," Will you be perfect, go, sell what you have and gibs the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me "(Matthew, 19, 21-24) Even with the release of the twelve Apostle he told them
"Fill your belt not with gold, ¬ silver or copper coins Carry no bag is on the way, no other dress, no shoes, no bar, because the worker worthy of his hire you coming but!. in a city or village, then to ask who it is worthy. stays there until it moves on [...] Behold, I send you as sheep among wolves [...] "
Matthew 10, 9-16.
goods be brought quickly into the status of a surrogate identity.
The simplicity also has a practice-related page, because the trashing of property, the use of things around you are less complicated if the property must not replace missing parts of the personality. Learning to make do with less time and energy releases for the essentials. Our relationship with things is more relaxed and you can see everything around you as short-term leave to when hired. Is freely chosen way of life and possessions is not poverty, but not be obsessed with possessions. Single.
The madness of many radical traditions ownership of critical points to this celebration leap to freedom.
All in this world we have been lent, not given. So you go with the things around in concern and compassion, but without claiming ownership.
be concluding, I would like this little observation with a prayer:
Dear Krishna
If my practice of renunciation and contentment in yearning for the essence, for you, again sparked a whole new life-enhancing power is released:
allows the disclosure of the superfluous to me now a guide to the essentials.
frugality and consequent simplification of my existence by breaking my state, in which just needs provided only as a habit must be, and the obtaining absorb me so, so clouded in me the very basis of my discontent
as possessing a human being I've become a person who is busy.
standard of living, property, comfort and worldly relations are the "skin" of my happiness has become, in which I am used to hug me.
is why the discovery for me so amazing to notice that I was never so happy as in those moments when I deleted all of this and I "skinned" quite immediately get back into touch with the reality of my soul.
I will now let go of what occupied me where I have brazenly taken possession claim for goods, yes the are your really to be free from the spell of care for goods that block the depth dimension of my life.
Available for reality.
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