We own absolutely nothing in this world. Nothing that we own is ours, nothing belongs to us, unfortunately we cannot understand that the best way to relate to things, for our own good, is through detachment.
We still act like children who don't want to share toys, we create a deep identification with things and we don't realize the size of the mistake we are making, because when we lose them, we feel as if we have been amputated. Every exaggeration of importance we give to anything ends up imprisoning us. The greater the level of affective need in the individual, the more he tries to fill himself with things or people that become part of the prison of his illusions.
How many investors didn't jump out of buildings on that fateful Black Thursday, when the New York Stock Exchange crashed in 1929? How many millionaires have not committed suicide in the face of market fluctuations or unforeseen bankruptcies? The world is full of these tragic stories of bankruptcies and failures, because life is made up of vicissitudes, ups and downs, this is the dynamic that coordinates our experiences. Man needs to learn not to cling to the landscape, to let the Universe act, because he is in charge, just as he gives us, he also takes away from us, it depends on our evolutionary need.
It makes no sense to live clinging to material things, precisely because of this: there is a lot of instability in everything, nothing is eternal, even for those who have reached the highest level of prosperity, there is always the possibility of an alternation, it is necessary to be prepared to the fall and there is no other way to defend ourselves from the tests that life imposes on us other than letting go, so it is necessary to exercise detachment.
We need to learn to let go of what needs to go, nothing that we enjoy is ours, neither people nor things, one day we will have to let go, it is not uncommon to hear of cases of souls that were trapped in the houses they lived in, the objects they owned or haunting loved ones. Why all this? People lose their health, family, honor, friends, all because of extreme affection for riches, this is very sad!
Siddhartha Gautama – the Buddha once received a farmer who was willing to kill himself because a hundred cows fled from his property. Faced with the unusual and realizing that his disciples were shocked, he took the opportunity to give them a teaching:
My friends, do you know why you are happy? Because you don't have a hundred cows to lose.
As long as we are sporting this strange blindness, victimized by the disturbances of reason, serving Mammon, our consciousness will continue to be obscured by a veil, where reality will have distorted contours. True wisdom is letting go, looking at the world without the traces of unhealthy possession, making the most of what life is offering, but understanding that everything is impermanent. You don't have to give everything you've conquered to the poor, nor do you have to be afraid to prosper, you just have to not be possessed by the unhealthy fixed ideas of power and riches.
As sad as attachment to things is attachment to people, for it is the same principle. Every exaggerated affection for someone signals some emotional problem, it's sad, but it's true, and only a deep reflection can make you understand this phenomenon. Passions are emotions inflated with affective load, whether they are our guilt, remorse, frustrations, in short, everything that holds us with exaggerated intensity to someone is a sick feeling, we are being much more selfish than we think, because we are not expressing the true love, in reality, we simply choose the other as the solution to our internal conflicts. Past life therapists know this, unfortunately the subject deserves further consideration and the space here is short and the subject is quite complex, in addition to not being the central theme of this study, but know that passion has absolutely nothing to do with it. as love.
