Mr Old Shoes

An old man one day about city bus travel. When set foot into the ladder, one of his shoes came off and fell into the street. Unfortunately, the door closed and the bus ran fast. This bus will only stop at the next stop is far enough away so that he could not pick shoes that despite earlier.
Given that, the old man calmly took off his shoes the next door and threw him out the window.
A young man who sat in the bus was amazed, and asked the old man, "Why is the father of the father who threw shoes too?" You old man replied calmly, "So that whoever can use it to find my shoes. "
Old father in the story above is an example of a free and independent. He has succeeded in releasing attachment to objects. He is different from most people who defend something entirely eye because they want to have it, or because they do not want anyone else to have it.
Attitudes to maintain something - including maintaining what is already no longer useful - is the root of greed. The cause of greed is an excessive love of material possessions. This love for delivery attachment.
If you are already bound to something, you will identify yourself with something that. You You can even equate happiness with having the object. If so, you must be difficult to give anything you have because it could mean a loss of some your bliss.
If we think deeper greed actually comes from the mind and our paradigm is wrong to property. We often think of us as our own property. This thought was wrong.
Our treasure is not ours. He is just a deposit and trust that one day must be accounted for. Our accountability is to what extent we can keep and use it.
Our role in this life is a media and intermediaries. Everything belongs to God and one day will return to Him.
God has entrusted to us many things: possessions, wealth, spouse, children, and so forth. Our task is to maintain this trust well, including continuing to anyone who needed it.
The paradigm of the past will make us address the problem differently. If normally you get annoyed that there are people who need help, now you just feel grateful.
Why? Because you see it as an opportunity to become "extended arm" of God. You do not feel annoyed, knowing that your job is just to continue "surrogate" God to help people in difficulty.
This way of thinking will give birth to live a full berkelimpahruahan and grace for us and the environment. Living like this is a life that always increases and never decreases.
Everyone will feel victorious, no one will lose. The universe is actually working with this concept, all the elements together, producing a win for all parties.
In closing, allow me to write a string of poems from a wise man:
"You can never have anything, You only hold it briefly, If you can not let go, you will shackled by it. What are your treasure, the treasure should you hold with you hold your hand like water. Hold me tight and treasure it off. I am as yours and you contaminate him. Let go, and all of it be yours forever. "

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