Unwise wrote:
But you misunderstand. It is not ME who speaks of attachment and non-attachment. It is YOU. You people.
So, I'm only asking you to consider the attachment of food. You could all exist quite well (and more healthily) on a very low calorie Spartan diet. So why don't you?
Why do you speak of sex and companionship as attachment, career as attachment, nice things and nice homes as attachment......but you ignore your unnecessary food items as attachment? How logical is this? Also, why are some here attached to the dole? This is fear. Go out and beg as others who seek 'non-attachment' have done.
I do not practice non-attachment because all acts of volition are attachment to the body. It is all nonsense. Once you discover that you are NOT the body, none of this makes any difference whatsoever. This is why I flaunt it.
Unwise, you are missing the primary motivation as to why one negates these things in the first place, its not that a big house is an attachment, although I suppose there is a possibly that one could be attached to it. One negates a big home, a career, and nice things because a sensitive person doesn’t want to be a slave to have these things. The avoidance of suffering is the primary motivation.
And one eats a healthy diet with the same motivation, namely the avoidance of suffering.
And being on the dole is much easier than begging, if survival became too much of a struggle for me, I would let myself die, I don’t care. Begging is not worth the effort. The burden of securing basic food, clothes and shelter should be minimized as much of possible.
Question: How do you afford to flaunt material possessions? Did you inherit money? Do you work a job you hate to pay for it? You see I don’t work a job I hate, but I have nothing to flaunt either. However, the freedom associated with this negation of worth it for me.
And if you inherited money, couldn’t you find something much more intelligent to do with your money than flaunting a bunch of tacky possessions?
you're problem is that you are relying on your imagination to tell you what a spiritual man should be or do, when you should be listening to the suffering of the body. And why are you a man of imagination rather than a man of senstitivity? probably because you idolize a bunch of charlatan gurus.