Lost Property

Dear friends lovers sinners and saints





The term ''you never know what you truly have until its gone'' came to mind today. That being said alot of what we depend upon is taken for granted whether it be out of ignorance or greed.





A monk i have known all my life has taught me that in this world we are surrounded by suffering, brought about by craving and we have to find a path out of that. Safe to say this is a grim and ghastly topic to explain to a 7 year old so she explained as such. ''Suhada your parents may one day bring home a bag of chips(the thought of which was pretty epic, who doesn't enjoy a bag of chips!) so you decide to eat some. Once you have obtain the taste of it you figure that you enjoy it and begin to crave more so you continue eating and such you keep repeating this process until there is nothing left to eat. Once it is gone you are sad at the fact it is over and wish for more yet can't attain such. That is suffering.''





Such a profound concept explained so simply in a lesson that I don't think I will ever forget. Yet my understanding of what I learnt that day is due to greed we all crave certain things, never being content with what we have and we eventually become dissatisfied, thus leading to suffering.





I and anybody reading this blog right now live a privileged life. Yeah some of us may not have the latest iPod or the trendiest set of clothes but we have a roof over our heads, warm food on the table every day and a bed to sleep on. Im sure all of us have heard of the difficulties in third world countries like africa or parts of south-east asia. That being said im sure it makes us have some sort of remorse for what we take for granted. I think that goes to show that the value of something isn't weighted by price tag it comes with but by its hold upon the invidual. We all have attatchments(don't think i spelt that correctly) to certain objects. It may be an object, person or thought but it is dear for reasons known only to that person the term ''one man's trash is another man's treasure'' can all but sum this up.



I've started to wonder whether so much of the adversity we are faced with is due to a lack of understanding of the value something holds to another and how attatched(probably spelt wrong again =[) we as individuals become to certain things. The material things we hold close whatever it may be always have a way of slipping loose from our grips, until it is no more. What can we do once it is gone? After becoming so dependant upon something, we crave for it eternally but ultimately we are left with suffer

Its like making a cut upon ones body. Only the person who is cut knows that pain of loosing something. Yet ulitmately like all things even that suffering is impermanent. It will one day so the suffering may cease. Instead of beating around the bush with meandering similis and metaphors I will just blatantly say that everything is impermanent, such is life. I guess striving for simplicity with no real attatchement where we are content with all thats surrounds us leaves us free to the ups and downs of attatchements. In the long run attatchements is merely a ways of finding security and to delude ourselves with the fact that we may be content.

Yet how can we find such equilibrium and overcome such nature so deeply set within ourselves

I will leave you with that

Sleep easy kids
suhada.xx