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Today I wanted...........
Today I wanted to get a computer of my own ( I've been using my dad's and mine is at the house with the kids ). I thought about a MAC and started to price and look for the best deal. I even went through the action of going into the store to check one out in person, ya know get the full tactile effect. I left without getting one and felt quite alright about it.
That is until I got home and did some reading, and I felt guilty for wanting the commputer.
From The Way of the Bodhisattva
8: 18-19
Indeed,oh foolish and afflicted mind,
You want, you crave for everything,
This "everything" will grow and turn
To suffering increased a thousand fold.
Since this is so the wise man does not crave,
for from such craving and fear anguish come.
And fix this firmly too your understanding:
All that may be wished for will by its very nature fade to nothing.
Just sharing.
That is until I got home and did some reading, and I felt guilty for wanting the commputer.
From The Way of the Bodhisattva
8: 18-19
Indeed,oh foolish and afflicted mind,
You want, you crave for everything,
This "everything" will grow and turn
To suffering increased a thousand fold.
Since this is so the wise man does not crave,
for from such craving and fear anguish come.
And fix this firmly too your understanding:
All that may be wished for will by its very nature fade to nothing.
Just sharing.
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"I would like a computer of my own, because then I can store written teachings, files, references to Buddhist websites and anything to do with Buddhism, so that I may sit and access what I need in that moment, to learn what I might learn...I know that I will not be attached, as all things are ephemeral, and this too shall pass..." :type:
.....And -
"IwantIwantIwantmyowncomputerIdoIdoIjustgottahaveitIwantitiit'smineallmineandnobodyelsecanhaveitIgothaveitIwantIwantIwant!!!" :rant: :hiding:
OK....?
I need a car for my job - there is no public transport. I don't need a Ferrari.
Huge difference.
I need a vehicle to get from A to B ... and the only time I had a "nice" car, it got taken away from me, which served as a wonderful lesson in non-attachment.
But I am a "materialist" ..... I do a lot of sewing and I cannot resist a pretty bit of material if it is cheap. Complete acquisitive magpie materialist on that count.