Viirenunciation

Book Id: WPLBN0000705750
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Viirenunciation
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Language:	English
Subject:	Religion, Buddhism, Buddhism and literature
Collections:	Buddhist Literature Collection, BuddhaNet: Buddhist Information and Education Network
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Publisher:	Buddhanet: Buddhist Information and Education Network


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Excerpt: In order to embrace the spiritual path fully, be able to grow on it and walk along it with a feeling of security, one has to renounce. Renunciation doesn't necessarily mean cutting off one's hair or wearing robes. Renunciation means letting go of all ideas and hopes that the mind would like to grasp and retain, be interested in and wants to investigate. The mind wants to have more of whatever is available. If it can't get more, then it makes up fantasies and imaginings and projects them upon the world. That will never bring true satisfaction, inner peace, which can only be won by renunciation. Letting go is the key word of the Buddhist path, the fading away of desire. One must realize once and for all that more is not better. It is impossible to come to an end of more, there is always something beyond it. But it is certainly possible to come to the end of less, which is a much more sensible approach.