Attachments To Material Possessions?

Do you have any?

I hardly ever do....could take or leave most things in this house and never feel sad....

I would feel sad for lost photographs.....those I am attached to......

and once in a blue moon, I find something that makes me happy, so I can get attached to it,, but that is a very rare occurance.

How about you?

 

I like my paintings, so I guess I am attached to some of those...and letters and cards from family members and loved ones.......so I guess....those, too.

 

Im attached to a lot of things of this realm and I have to reminds myself that there is so much more sometimes.

Like, for instance im attached to my hobbies and things that I love doing; but my earthly possessions are not knick knacks or junk, they are essentials of creativity, reflection, self importance and help me make sense of what doesn't.


So basically, I could get rid of all my shit and accept it on a whim. But I wouldn't do that because I like my shit.

But life, you have to wonder whether or not to take it seriously sometimes.
Maybe I should cast out what I love and live as a hermit, this would be true understanding.
The moment I decided to respond to this was the same moment I decided to put off the practice of Zen until im old enough to have patience.

You just fucked me hard, thanks...

 

I don't posses anything. Gravity keeps it in place until I use it.

 

I've got a lot of replacement stuff for the things lost in the house fire... some things just can't be replaced though.

 

Hobbies are not things...I am talking about things.....I like the volumes of books of here I have written...and would never get rid of those ...and by that I mean...I filled up my own empty books here or notebooks, and mostly by handwriting and not typing.....

memories...in photographs, writings, etc....I think that may be different.

I mean something that is just a material item....that you did not create yourself......

 

I know I should be attached to things here that are not replaceable, like some of my mom's furniture, dishes, etc...., and I hold it for my brother here.....
I know I should be, but just am not....maybe because I have to take care of it all, and house it, so I don't have time to just enjoy most things...and things feel more like a burden?.......maybe...I do not know why I am not....they are just things....too.

 

and alot of things here were just forced on me, by inheriting from a few people, and not things I actually went out and picked myself...so maybe a sadness is attached to most things for me.... and that is not a happiness in that way.

I found something yesterday I really love, though, and makes me happy.....so I started thinking about all of this very philosophically.....as I do not feel this way about most things here.

 

If you were attached to them I suppose you would feel burned.

 

Why should you?

 

That is a good question....I am not sure why I should, but I feel I should be. My mother saved most of these things for both my brother and me...I guess that could be why, and some things would never be replaceable.....but I look at something and look away feeling very burdened by many things....

 

I was talking about my skateboard or my car. things like that.

 

What did you find?

 

i used to be a packrat...the older i get i the easier it is to throw away stuff or sell things

 

18" long, about 10" high...not a chip or scratch in it.....very ornate....and its history is that it was with the first owner of the house, which was built over 80 years ago. It just makes me happy tolook at. It emits a happy, positive energy......one lady in the carriage....
I need to find its place of honor...am not usually into porcelain itmes to just look at, either. I like things I can use and are useful. This is just decorative....

 

I have a few things that I'm attached to. I have an old icebox that came from my grandparents farm. It sat in a leaky shed ever since I was a kid. About 30 years ago I decided to take it and I restored it. Its been in my house ever since. Another is my 1968 Fender Telecaster bass I bought in 1972. Its seen a lot of gigs and a lot of miles, and a car I bought in 1982. Mercury Capri RS, its in almost pristine condition.

 

I'm not attached to any material possessions really. I have some family heirlooms with some sentimental value and I do value beauty a lot, I enjoy decorating my home with items I consider beautiful. But its all replaceable.

 

I'm a spiritual materialist,so yes,stuff is very important to me.However it is good to let things go occasionally.For example I recently let a friend choose 20 books and 15 cds from my collection,as he wanted to start his own.

 

Meliai, I appreciate beautiful things, as well, and don't want anything ugly in my immediate environment, either, and most things I have here are beautiful.....not much junk here....but I guess what I meanis certain things can make you feel certain ways.....It is how you feel around something...I guess the same holds true for anything in life, though.......

 

I have an old lamp that belonged to my grandmother and it makes me happy to look at it because it reminds me of her and it makes me think I inherited mt quirky style from her. But its still replaceable, I'm not really attached to it per se. I can't really think of any material item in emotionally attached to.