Post by air on Jul 21, 2015 17:30:36 GMT
Some people find it difficult to understand this simple truth that nothing belongs to us. Why is it so difficult to understand this? When we are born, we are born even without a shirt or a pant and when we die we don’t take anything with us. Even our body remains here after death, to be consumed by the soil, but we still believe that this belongs to us. This land belongs to us. This car belongs to us and this house belongs to us. My wife belongs to me. My son belongs to me, but in reality nothing belongs to us!
I come into this world empty-handed and everything is given to me just to use. Even if my father gives me a multimillion dollar business, it is just for me to use because I cannot take it with me anywhere. I have to leave all these behind and hand over to the next generation. So, how did it belong to me? Somebody may say this villa in French Riviera belongs to me. Great! House or property may be in your name, but what can you do with it? When you die, those things cannot belong to you. You have to leave it behind. So, nothing permanently belongs to us. It only belongs to us temporarily. And we are so foolish that we keep seeking and adding to that list of temporary belongings which truly don’t belong to us. We don’t pay attention to things that might belong to us, to our spirit, to our soul, that might belong to our subtle self, the self that lives beyond the body. Therefore temporary wealth is ours, but the real wealth never becomes ours. Only because we don’t realize the truth that nothing belongs to us.
I come into this world empty-handed and everything is given to me just to use. Even if my father gives me a multimillion dollar business, it is just for me to use because I cannot take it with me anywhere. I have to leave all these behind and hand over to the next generation. So, how did it belong to me? Somebody may say this villa in French Riviera belongs to me. Great! House or property may be in your name, but what can you do with it? When you die, those things cannot belong to you. You have to leave it behind. So, nothing permanently belongs to us. It only belongs to us temporarily. And we are so foolish that we keep seeking and adding to that list of temporary belongings which truly don’t belong to us. We don’t pay attention to things that might belong to us, to our spirit, to our soul, that might belong to our subtle self, the self that lives beyond the body. Therefore temporary wealth is ours, but the real wealth never becomes ours. Only because we don’t realize the truth that nothing belongs to us.
