To live a pure unselfish life,
one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
Why is it that the "American Dream" is to have it all? And we have it all right now? We have become a society of instant gratification of the very best. Could we really do without a lot of our "stuff"? They are just things after-all.
Is this saying from Buddha telling us that we should live like Mother Teresa and have no worldly possessions or just less reliance on those things? Is that what makes us selfish, this need to have the very best and to have it now?
2 comments:
I drive a lot of folks crazy because I feel the same way.
I don't need it all, and I certainly don't need it all RIGHT NOW!!
I try to live by the creed "want the things you have, don't have the things you want."
Works pretty good for me.
Alas we are not buddists.
on the other hand we are supposedly christian which has similar views yet we don't really
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