Mitsubishi 6D22 ME657125
In daily life, we develop numerous desires, attachments, habits and
dependencies. Once these attachments, habits, needs and
dependencies take root within us, we feel as if we simply cannot
carry on living without them. Yet if we pause to reflect: before
these habits and needs were formed, we got along perfectly well
without them. It was as though such things had nothing whatsoever
to do with us, was it not? Therefore, as Buddhist practitioners, we
need to establish a wise understanding anew, and consciously
nurture wholesome, sound, positive and constructive states of mind
and habits.
People nowadays are fond of mobile phones and cannot live without
them. Is it because you love the device itself, or because you have
built up an inner psychological dependence on it that makes you
unable to let go? Which factor carries greater weight? I believe
hardly anyone would claim they love the physical phone. More often
than not, it arises from this mental attachment we have cultivated.
Likewise, all worldly people’s clinging to and craving for wealth,
social status, poetry, books, music and painting, and everything
else in life, are in truth all cultivated tendencies of the mind.
