PureInsight | November 11, 2007
[PureInsight.org] Every person has many things he can't let go of. These things will become a burden attached to that person. The heavier the burden, the slower one can walk.
But people cannot feel the burden on their back. On the contrary, these burdens are important to them. They cannot be separated from them and they are unwilling to give them up. When they lose them, they suffer great pain.
The things in each person's baggage can be different and the size may also be different. Some walk as if they have wings on their cultivation path; some are slow. When one's baggage is too heavy, they naturally cannot walk fast. What is in the baggage? It contains desires for money and fame, human feelings, ego, taste preferences, lust, and the concepts formed during one's life and viewed as correct. In any case, they are the human bonds of emotions and sensory pleasures.
People always live according to their own patterns. They want to be distinct from others. They love to get more. They expect to be better than others. They only want to listen to the things pleasant to their ears. They like to be comfortable. This is human. Being human is just like that.
People are kind to others in order to gain something from others or do bad things to others because of being afraid of losing something. People would rather others suffer or die rather than give up their baggage.
But all these things do not belong to them, regardless of what they think. The only function of this baggage is to lock onto them. These things can even overwhelm them. When people die, the things they cannot let go of will not go with them. People waste their whole lives pursuing the baggage, but their debts will always follow them.
In the end, what do they gain?
Some carry heavy baggage and it makes them breathless. When they want to untie them, they don't have the strength to move. Some people's baggage is so tangled up that even when they untie one piece, they are still tied up by others.
When they get tired, they are still willing to carry the baggage. They moan and groan, but they still do not want to unload it.
These filthy materials from the human dimension cannot be carried to heaven. Humans always pursue happiness, but no one can escape the miseries of human life. Only cultivation can free them from the suffering. Only by giving up all these things can one obtain the happiness of reaching the other shore.
Translated from:
http://zhengjian.org/zj/articles/2007/11/8/49243p.html
