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Originally Posted by BlueSky
It's not about clinging to the wants and desires for me, it's about clinging to those wants and desires as them being mine.
Thanks for listening
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Exactly.
''Mine'' is ego in the sense of attaching yourself to something and ''owning'' it. Things come, things go. It is getting to a place of genuine comfort and acceptance of this, which I don't think is easy, if we're all truly honest to ourselves.
Of course we own things, it is life, and we say the words ''That is mine'' often, but if we can come from a place of knowing things are impermanent in the physical world, that either they leave us, or we leave it first, at some point whatever
it is, is going to end, be it a car or a house, for example.
Seeing them for what they are is essential, IMO. As I said, it's not easy as we're so conditioned to act in the opposite way, but if we can strive for detachment from these things we are on our way to freedom.
Thank you for your thoughts.