Shoes The Old Dad

An old man on a day trip to the city bus.

When set foot into the ladder, one shoe off and fell into the street. Unfortunately, the door closed and the bus ran fast. This bus will only stop at the next stop is far enough away so that he could not pick a shoe that had been released. Seeing the fact that, the old man calmly took off his shoes and threw the other one out the window.

A young man sitting in a bus astonished, and asked the old man,''Why is the father of the father who threw the shoes, too?''The old man calmly replied,''To anyone who can use it to find my shoes.''

The old man in the story above is an example of a free and independent. He had managed to break his attachment to the body. It is different from most people who keep things simply because they want to have it, or because they do not want anyone else to have it.

Attitudes to maintain things, including maintaining what is already no longer useful - is the root of greed. The cause of greed is an excessive love of wealth. This gave birth to a love attachment. If you are bound by something, you will identify yourself with something. You can even equate happiness with having the object. If so, it must be difficult to give you everything you have because it could mean losing some of your happiness.

If we think more deeply greed actually comes from our thoughts and the wrong paradigm of the property. We often think of our property as our own. This thinking is wrong. Our treasure is not ours. He is just a deposit and trust that one day should be dipertanggung - accountable. Our liability is the extent to which we can maintain and use.