non-attachment - Jack Kornfield

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My teacher, Achaan Chah used to wander around the monastery at times and

talk to people and just say, "Are you suffering much today?" And if you

said, "Yes," he said, "Oh, you must be quite attached," and kind of giggle

and go along. There wasn't much more to say. You come to see that you

don't own this body because it changes by itself, that you rent this house;

you get it for a little while, and you can honor it and feed it and walk

it, and jog it if you want, but it's not yours to possess. You can begin to

see, in fact, that none of these things are possessible because the nature

of life is nonpossession. You're an accountant in the firm -- you get to

count it for awhile and that's all.

 

Jack Kornfield

 

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All religious and spiritual differences

melt away the nearer you get to God.

Net Sufi

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