How is it that nothing really belongs to you?

Question

If you'r most prized possession cannot be made manifest when and where ever you desire, then it doesnt really belong to you in any kind of real way.Does this then point to liberation?What is it that we are 'holding on' to?Our minds ,apparently,work in six different ways.Will it really not matter if, upon leaving this life ,we're unknowingly stuck in second gear?Who rules the airwaves?What is it we all watch for,most every night,before the flickering screen?Proof of a ghost in the machine?Whose hope are we flattering?Hope of what?Can the' conflict resolution ' model of human thought ever truly satisfy?What is The Problem,exactly?
I ask these questions sincerely.Please answer openly,prejudice aside.

Answer 1

Wow!! Too much for my brain to digest right now... that's a lot!!! You've got a lot on your mind huh? Hope you find answers, but I don't know if anyone can answer those for you. It sounds like you're at a frustrated point in your life and that I can and do understand. My advice is..... THIS TOO SHALL PASS!

Chin up!!

Answer 2

I´ll will answer the Top Question, since all others are not on top. When one dies, we take Nothing with Us. Nothing is THE most important element: no mathematics without the ZERO (represents Nothing).

Also, the whole Universe fits in the VOID (Void=Nothing). Nothing is Infinity, since it has no Begining and no End.

Our Dreams are Nothing. Dreams don´t have the boundarys of Time and Space three dimensions, Dreams don´t have limits. And in our Dreams, we posses nothing: we are free.

In exchange, we do have the USE of everything. The Possession is not Ours, but the Use is. We can Use everything, and we do decide How we Use it. So, the Decision is also Ours: even when we don´t want it to be!

Ideas are not Ours either. The whole Universe existed much before Sciences, Religions and Arts. Even Technology is so primitive compared to Life, with is not Ours either. We just decide how we Use this Life. And we continue with Life after this Body decays, or abruptly finishes its existence. This body is not Ours, either.

It´s Us that want to believe this LifeSpan is all there is. It´s Us that want to cling to possessions, to this body.

Instead, it´s Us that travel through the Eternal Now of Life. It´s Us, not our possessions

DonYan the Barefoot

Answer 3

One amazing fact I learned recently is that even the matter, or energy, that makes up our body is constantly re-cycled. We like to think that we are 'solid' but in fact every twenty years or so somethimg like 98% of the molecules in our bodies are gone. The different tissues re-cycle at different rates but that's an average. Some of the matter even ends up in space.

So if we don't retain ownership or full control of our body's matter while we are alive, it kindof puts ownership of external material objects into perspective doesn't it. Everything belongs to nature and we fool ourselves if we think otherwise.

Most Eastern religions work on the principle that you are liberated once you renounce all ownership and all 'wanting' ownership. You can 'assume responsibility' for stuff for a while, though, until you get the hang of this concept.

We are irrevocably a part of nature's energy and that's where we end up, our molecules spread all over the place, some in new babies, some in the rocks, some in different life forms and some off to explore the universe. Stuff from our bodies is even being re-cycled while we are watching the box - I don't feel so guilty now.

I love that returning to nature thought.

Answer 4

Haveing material thoughts and possessions is healthy ,without debt(conscience) incurring.
All we see is ours through GOD the creator.
It is our Stweardship,that keeps all free or the wrongful use of that steawardship that not only puts our home(EARTH)in deficit but ourselves.
As for second gear on dieing.I believe we either have no existenence ever again or we go to be told in front of our Creator that we merit a good life in a new dimension of life,or that our Creator tells us we do not merit that life.
After the latter I could not express an opinion,theologians try but surley the love of Jesus in our way of life shall then express itself as the benifactor of "our future liveing"

Answer 5

how u ask? well lets say what u "own" really belonged to u, well there would only be one of what it is. u "own" a knife, a kitchen knife, well if u own it, u have never cut yourself. because u own it.
if u really did own it. the knife u cut yourself with would have given u a heads up about cutting yourself.
if what we buy, do we own it?
no we don't.
the money u use came from someone else.
maybe yer paycheque?
nothing we see here on the earth, we don't rule or own.
if we truly did, then would we have all of lifes answers?

there would be no problems.
like global warming fer example.
the cars we drive, the factorys we build, and the fuels and whatnot we make cause global warming, but we built these things, therefore we own them right?
if we did truly own them, there would be no global warming.
they would'nt harm us or the place we are.
if we did truly own them.

if something did really belong to us.........................

Answer 6

That's too many questions. What do you want a doctrinal thesis on everything in the world. Be reasonable with what you ask and you might get a full answer.

Answer 7

After reading the initial question I thought you may have been the guy that stole my bike, I had no idea I wandered into the "deep end" of the pool.

Answer 8

We don't leave this life stuck in second gear. We leave exactly as we are now. The personality/soul does not die, we live on and continue to learn, there is no God controlling us.

Answer 9

The only thing that belongs to you is your soul. You own it in such a way because it is the only thing you entered life with and it is what carries you into heaven or hell your choice of course. Liberate your self by learning to control yourself.

Answer 10

The reason nothing ever belongs to you, not even your soul, is that, when you fall in love, the woman owns your soul and you cannot resist her every whim. All those material possesions matter not if you can never even own your own soul.