044-When is it enough? - Buddhism in daily life

It is very difficult for man to get "enough", always something more, more money, more health, more of life, more love, more sex, more of all kinds of things.

When is it ever "enough", why do we always want "more", where does the road lead to? And who "needs" all the things he/she acquires?

The trend to minimalism comes up again and again, especially in the consumer society, because deep inside people realize that the buying frenzy also brings nothing, indeed can bring nothing.

For my part, I will now in the spring again dig through all my possessions to sort out everything useless, to make my life lighter and leaner, to find myself again. Because all the possessions, they're not me, they're largely useless items that are mainly collecting dust.

Usually this results in other activities that are not even foreseeable now, that arise from the tidying process.

But this is for the spring, I am speaking generally, when will it ever be enough, who will do without, who will give up wanting, stop wishing? More and more we humans also accumulate as a collective, we consume more and more, without measure and goal everything is exploited, nature, animals, man is insatiable.

Do we want to think about it, or go on and on? Do we want to see the animals as living beings, or do we always call them farm animals? Do we want to finally deal with the environment sensibly, or not?

When is "enough", when is "enough" for you?

What do we need, where should the journey go? For us as humans, but also for humanity?

Do you want to think about it for once, think about where your journey should go? When you as a person have "enough"? When you want to focus on content and values?

Deep inside we know that all possessions are just filthy trinkets, that everything can't really be important, that there is something else, indeed there must be. From the fact that you are reading Buddhist texts on this page, you can see that other things count for you as well, things that are not of a material nature.

The philosophy of the teacher of all teachers says that we suffer because we cannot keep anything, we will lose everything, because impermanence is the all-determining element in the life of every human being. The most important question is, how we ourselves stand to it, which lessons we draw from this certainty; what follows from this certainty?

The way is the goal!

When you live in one place for too long, you accumulate too many things. You take on too many duties and businesses, associate with too many families, and when you move away, you feel pain of separation.

- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero

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