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We are advised to travel light when we undertake a journey.Why can't we travel light in our lives too to make it beautiful and enjoyable?
If we travel light the journey is enjoyable. In the journey of life i want to travel with no burden on my body or mind. Burden on body is due to sickness and obesity. Burden on mind is due to possesions and relationships.
"With no burden on body and mind
I want to travel and unwind"
W. Ying 10+
To travel light in life is easy if we know:
(1) The goal of our life is to keep our DNA alive.
(2) To have too much money makes happiness invalid (ineffective, untrue, unreal, HARMFUL).
(For INVALID (ineffective) happiness, see the 1st article, points 1-3, 14, at https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=D24D89AE8B1E2E0D&id=D24D89AE8B1E2E0D%21283&sc=documents)
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Fulya Özkara
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W. Ying 10+
Yes.
Too much money enslaves us.
(See my comment above herein)
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Random Chance 30+
Perhaps part of the answer is not only found in "traveling light" but in also holding with a "light" touch or grasp.
The natural position of the human hand is open and supple, ready to receive. So too, can be the mind.
It isn't a closed fist, holding on for dear life and for forever.
I find there is something worth having in my life, just one thing, and no matter what happens or doesn't happen, it shrinks all problems down to the size of a tiny drop of water, that then "pings" or explodes into nothingness and is gone.
I trust this one thing completely, thus I don't worry because something good will happen.
If it doesn't, I don't worry, because something bad will happen.
I am and will be okay.
Where do we get possessions? We buy them in stores. How do we get into the stores?
We walk through the..... "en-trance".
When we let go of possessions we are letting go of being possessed.
Ultimately it is letting go of all attachments of all kinds, somehow with love and even letting go of love.
One of the hardest things to learn to do is not grab on when one falls. We are a very coordinated animal, that doesn't fall too often, but when we do, it is very scary.
Not grabbing and holding on when we do (not in a strictly physical sense as that is most times the correct time to hold on), is not falling. It is flying but one doesn't or will not learn that until they let go and do that.
Don't worry, something good will happen. If it doesn't, don't worry, something bad will happen.
When the walls come tumbling down, when the loss of what possessed one happens, don't try and hold up the wall.
It will crush you. Step back, let the possessions fall where they may and there will be an opening through which to walk through. In other words, this total type of loss, doesn't involve a nervous breakdown so much as it involves a nervous breakthrough.
I got rid of everything about 8 years ago. Very freeing and I can clearly see the possession that takes place inside the psyche of others.
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greg dahlen 20+
I would say I have a light attachment to relationships and objects, probably stronger to relationships. I would feel abnormal if I had no attachment, as I worked to get them; and abnormal if I had too much attachment, as that would be too clinging. So a light attachment works for me.
ZX Style 10+
The answer is investment.
People invest a lot in relationships and thus losing them means that you lost the investment.
Plus people take things personal.
Gail . 50+
I admire the teaching, but it is in conflict with the US cultural paradigm.
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"Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it." Luke 17:30
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Fritzie Reisner 100+
george lockwood 20+
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"Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it." Luke 17:30
Ross G
Deciding who to place the burden of my wealth on wasn't as easy. I didn't want to remove my own chains and clamp them on anyone else. Christ instructs us to give it all to the poor. Perhaps because this is where the greatest impact can be achieved.
Everything we possess is unconsciously given a certain amount of control over us. Many people become almost entirely enslaved to worldly possessions. They spend much of their life in pursuit of material gain, and the rest of their life is spent maintaining, protecting, and worrying over their acquisitions. In effect, they have lost their life.
"Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it." Luke 17:30
For me, the greatest burden was sin. Or rather, it was until Christ.
I must confess, I am both surprised and excited to come across someone else who is entertaining these thoughts. A big thumbs up for you Adesh.
ZX Style 10+
Most people tend to avoid risks.
Because they have a lot to lose.
If you want to continue this question, you firstly have to answer this for yourself.
Why don't you give everything up and travel with nothing?
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Lejan . 30+
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Lejan . 30+
Fritzie Reisner 100+
When one has empathy for the many who are suffering, though, it is hard not to have burdens on the mind.
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