Someone complaint to me that he has been giving while someone has been taking, he felt that it is difficult to keep up with such a one way demand for kindness. From this we started talking about desires and attachment and how to curb them.
He felt that to be able to curb these things, one has to have no life, since he/she should let go of a lot of luxuries. I however disagree. The fact that he use the term 'No life', he is already looking at things from the perspective of someone who has a large appetite for desires and attachments. To a person with simple needs, his life is far from being the 'no life' that others see. It might be true that he goes home after work, stays home over the weekend, perhaps his favorite pass time is cycling or something simple, but does that mean that he is not happy?
The analogy i drew was that of a small tea cup and a beer mug. someone with desires the size of a tea cup can be easily fulfilled compared to someone with a beer mug.
Being a buddhist is a road to make that beer mug become a small cup, and ultimately that small tea cup into an ocean without a container - holding other people's water.
Me? I do not deny i have a big beer mug to fill, i can't promise i will acheive anything but would promise that i try, in dad's name.
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