Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

Maybe some things in our possession used to make us happy, but upon reflection, perhaps we don’t really like them as much as we thought we were going to or they have outlasted their usefulness. Often, we continue holding onto our old stuff, or storing it away to convince ourselves that we like it. This dead weight should be identified and discarded as quickly as possible to win back space and ro om to breathe. Give that stuff away to someone who might really use it; we don’t need useless items hanging around that annoy us! Once we clear out the junk, it’s surprising how little we do actually need. ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~~ "Vielleicht haben unsmanche Dinge, die wir besitzen, einmal glücklich gemacht - aber wenn wir darüber nachdenken, mögen wir sie vielleicht nicht so sehr, wie wir es erwartet hatten, oder sie sind uns nun nicht mehr von Nutzen. Wir halten oft an unserem alten Zeugs fest, oder bewahren es irgendwo auf, um uns zu überzeugen, dass wir es mögen. ...

" Advice to the monastics... All I am saying is that I really do not want the White Conch monastics to work outside jobs. It does not mean this week or next week or next month. You think it could not possibly be so, but I promise you it can be so, but to make it work, we all have to pull together, mainly in food costs, fuel costs, electricity, etc. We do not have to live fancy. We should not live fancy. It is not good for us and makes us weak and incapable. Instead, this is how they did it when ordained monastics lived in caves or lived in monasteries; they were not expected to have comfort. They were expected to be there to learn how to be strong. Too elegant or too luxurious makes you weak. It also makes you feel that everything has to be perfect around you, otherwise you cannot function and be really you, and that is not true. This does not mean that you do not have any possessions at all. In India, at my before monastery, many monks' tiny rooms looked like some kind of a s...