Just finished reading "The Perfection of Wisdom". These are my thoughts on how to apply Buddhism in my life as a Pagan. Buddhism teaches that attachment to the material world keeps us in a state of unhappiness and suffering, so detachment from that world is greatly to be desired. This has benefits even for those of us who see the material world as divine. It is easy for most people to recognize that who they are, the self, is separate from what they possess – car or home, clothes or jewelry, etc. But FAR less easy to understand that our sensations, our thoughts, judgements, ideas and evaluations are also things we have, not who we are. Acknowledgement of this separation frees us to abandon evaluations, thoughts, judgments, etc. that do not serve us at the moment that their usefulness ceases, because we know they are merely possessions, not the self. This frees us to see correct action in every moment.
2006-11-28
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