The Zen of Full Timing - Living Comfortably
The Buddha taught that Attachment was suffering. Attachment having to do with, on one level, the amount of stuff one has. Well if preparing to be full-timers doesnt bring you face to face with the ...
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UPdate: In some other posts in other topic areas there is the discussion about how to take all those things that one has NOW in ones home like the SAT/Cable TV, the phone plans and the constant WIFI, with one on the road.
While these things are nice and they may fit into this category of this topic I have posted...I am not so sure.
Do these things really satisfy us? I went almost three years without watching tv. I never missed it. Especially the 24 hour news cycle of hate and violence and political extremism. I found myself actually Happier without it. Now that I am back here in the states and have fallen back into the tv watching habit again I find myself increasingly unhappy with the world as a whole.
Part of the "Zen of Fultiming" might be to shed ones-self of some of these types of electronic baggage as well as keeping some of those things that make us feel truly at home and provide pleasure and comfort.
While these things are nice and they may fit into this category of this topic I have posted...I am not so sure.
Do these things really satisfy us? I went almost three years without watching tv. I never missed it. Especially the 24 hour news cycle of hate and violence and political extremism. I found myself actually Happier without it. Now that I am back here in the states and have fallen back into the tv watching habit again I find myself increasingly unhappy with the world as a whole.
Part of the "Zen of Fultiming" might be to shed ones-self of some of these types of electronic baggage as well as keeping some of those things that make us feel truly at home and provide pleasure and comfort.
