LIFE | Are you free (or not) ?
"What are you afraid to lose? When nothing in the world actually belongs to you ." — Marcus Aurelius " 本来无一物，何处惹尘埃？" * — 六祖惠能 * There were nothing in the first place, so where the dust (worry/trouble) came from? — Sixth Patriarch Huineng 🇬🇧 [ français ci-dessous ] "I have my house, my car, my muscles, my youth, my relationship, my title, my kind deed, my travel and meal, my multilingualism"… Some may even add on their own memories and emotions. In a material world, we are easily attached to our "possessions"— we, unconsiously, create our own prison. ARE we what we HAVE? "You are good at drawing, you are really gifted." For a long time, whenever I heard people say this to me, I would feel a little physiologically repulsive: Could it be that my hard work in painting training was canceled out by a gift from God? ( Universe or whaterver you call it. ) "We don't even have our bodies. We are just renting/borrowing them...
