How much time do you spend yearning for things? How much time are you really living in the present?
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- How many hours of your day do you spend on an activity treadmill trying to get what you think you want?
- At what point do all those endless hours amount to obsession?
- How much of your mind and time is spent fantasising about the things you want?
It is very easy to spend most of the hours of our lives obsessing about romance, career, money, unrequited or turbulent love, hobbies, sex or pleasure.
Like a cloud of mud, desire obscures your boundless, radiant spiritual nature.
In this culture, who can resist an almost insane thirst for sensual pleasures, wealth or power?
There are so many billboards, so many advertisements, and so many shopping malls beckoning our attention.
Don't you often feel hit by the flurries of "coming attractions" clamouring for your attention?
Promotions arrive in email daily. Social media is full of superficial consumerism.
How can we learn to look at them without longing for the Adirondack chairs, the outdoor gear, the overstuffed sofas with removable slipcovers, the perfect winter jackets worn by equally perfect models, or even the models themselves?
