Clinging causes the pain
Genuine love and kindness is desperately needed in this world. It comes from appreciating the object, and rejoicing in the object, wanting the object to be happy and well, but holding it lightly, not tightly. And this goes for possessions too. You are in an extremely materialistic society in which the possession of more and bigger and better is held up as the total criteria for being happy. Read more
A crafty dobberman
A wealthy man decides to go on a safari in Zimbabwe. He takes his faithful pet dobberman along for company. One day, the dobberman starts chasing butterflies and before long the dobberman discovers that he is lost.
So, wandering about, he notices a lion heading rapidly in his direction with the obvious intention of having him for lunch. The dobberman thinks, “OK, I’m in deep trouble now!” Then he noticed some bones on the ground close by, and immediately settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the approaching cat. Just as the lion is about to leap, the dobberman exclaims loudly, “Boy, that was one delicious lion. I wonder if there are any more around here.” Read more
