What can we live with, what can we die without

Let’s assume that the attachment to desire is the most dangerous generator of dissatisfaction and frustration.

Then the quickest path to better mental health is the moderation our longings.

The tricky part is putting ourselves out of the reach of the seductive powers that be which aim to hypnotize us. Because they are now attacking us from every angle.

Even before we realize we have been attacked. Carlin famously referred to this as the advertising lullaby, since the whole purpose of marketing is to lull the customer to sleep.

That’s how this machine operates. Every marketing message, one way or another, is making the following announcement:

Excuse me, but you are forgetting, you have this problem, and it hasn’t gone away, and if you want to make it go away, you need to buy this thing from me, right now.

That’s what causes us to feel the overwhelming sense of urgency that we are one purchase away from happiness.

But if we’d rather not be completely dragged around in the dirt by our desires, there is a way to defend ourselves. Because what the machine doesn’t want us to know is, their power only exists because of our wants.

Change that, and we’re free.

Here’s an interesting question to think about:

What is one thing in the past year you have grown in your ability to live without?

Everybody has some kind of answer to that question. It doesn’t have to be anything substantial. Attachments of all sizes are worth giving up.

It’s good practice. Every time we let go of our attachments, the truth of who we really are unveiled just a little bit more.

We unencumber ourselves from the weight of want and we empower ourselves to become freer and freer from the institutional chains that seek to bind us.

Maybe that’s all life really is.

A game to see how many things we can live without.

Only to find that we already had everything we need.

LET ME ASK YA THIS…
What you liberated yourself from desire’s choke hold?