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Attachment / Desire / Greed

• Craving is a sign of attachment. Attachment is bondage.
• Wealth and possessions are necessary. Attachment is not.
• Attachment gives rise to a need which was not there before. Need creates bondage. Sense objects become like a rope that tie you up. Attachment is nothing more than the state of the pretas. Keep alert mind on guard. Be content, whether elaborate or simple.
• If you have attachment, you cannot transfer consciousness. Bird cannot fly away if it is tethered.
• Transform desire into practice. Arise love and compassion. Generate the wish to benefit.
• Practice contentment. If it’s here, it’s here. If it’s not here, it’s not here.
• Don’t grasp as real. See as illusory. Like a reflection in the mirror.
• Attachment is like a poison that tastes good, but it will still kill you.
• ‘Fear of losing’ is a sign of attachment.
• Sustain mindfulness. Otherwise we will start thinking I am lost without this.
• When we are grasping to external object, we are grasping to an internal ‘I’ at the same time. This is duality.
• This is an indication that mind has not turned.
• The moment you are attracted to sense object, endure. Practice patience.
• Offer object of attachment as a mandala. This is a very simple action but it reduces self-grasping.
• Like salt water, craving only increases.
• When you see better, good seems bad. We attach because we don’t realize emptiness.
• When you have attachmet, the result is cyclic existence.
• Seed to be reborn in the human realm.
• Keep awareness of empty of self-nature.
• ‘I need this to be happy.’ Then what happens when we don’t have?
• Grasping is bondage.
• Release conceptual thought into the natural state. Don’t grasp.
• Make effort to lessen. It will take effort to get it out of the mindstream.
• Purify over and over again – don’t get discouraged. Every time you purify, it gets weaker.
• Desire is unsatisfiable. We have taken so many lives, but still we are not satisfied.
• More. Good. Better. These are deceptions of mind.
• Be content with whatever you have. Temporary sustenance is all we need.
• Food is food. Don’t have craving for variety.