Abundance Without Attachment
December 14, 2014 at 1:27 pm
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2014 at 1:30 pm by Whateverist.)
My wife, who is the exact opposite of woo in any form, handed me the New York Times Sunday Review section this morning telling me she thought the message in this article was really good.
In it an economics reporter asks a swami in India if economic prosperity is a good thing.
As it turns out the swami was born the son of Indian petroleum engineers working in Texas, graduated with an MBA from the University of Texas and made a lot of money. Long story short, he went to India, entered a Hindu seminary and six years later became a monk .. a renunciate possessing only a wooden bowl, two robes and some beads. (Some might object here that two robes is excessive.)
The swami answers that it isn't prosperity but the attachment to it which leads to unhappiness. He goes on to give three practices for avoiding attachment:
I have to agree with the wifey on this one. Pretty good advice.
http://nyti.ms/1uxAKge
In it an economics reporter asks a swami in India if economic prosperity is a good thing.
As it turns out the swami was born the son of Indian petroleum engineers working in Texas, graduated with an MBA from the University of Texas and made a lot of money. Long story short, he went to India, entered a Hindu seminary and six years later became a monk .. a renunciate possessing only a wooden bowl, two robes and some beads. (Some might object here that two robes is excessive.)
The swami answers that it isn't prosperity but the attachment to it which leads to unhappiness. He goes on to give three practices for avoiding attachment:
Quote:Move beyond attachment by collecting experiences, avoid excessive usefulness, and get to the center of your wheel.
I have to agree with the wifey on this one. Pretty good advice.
http://nyti.ms/1uxAKge
