NOT Being Owned by Own ''STUFF''

CONSIDER THIS...
PSYCHOLOGICAL FREEDOM -
Getting RID Of
Own ''STUFF''

---I had a good friend whose situation or Life wasn't working for him. I think he read somewhere that a way to Spiritual Enlightenment was to give up all ''worldly possessions.'' Spiritual Enlightenment was a new ''avenue'' for him- trying new things was not. So he decided to ''get rid of his stuff.''
---He picked his friends as recipients for his ''things.'' What he had was very little anyway, so the actual dispersal was not a long drawn out process. Basically, he had a TV, a stereo, some records. He had sold his guitar to me a few years earlier. He would still visit those of us to whom he had given his stuff, but I always felt an obligation to ''offer'' it back during the course of the evening.
---He longed for something to fill the void left by the stuff. You saw a wearing down of his physical self and a rise in his beer consumption. Of course the two go hand-in-hand, but you could now see there was something he cared about no longer in his situation. Well, what was missing was his ''stuff.'' These were things ''he'' used as Creative Self-Expression. He gave them away, BUT NEVER DID. Part of himself still ''identified'' with these things. Truly, he really didn't seem ready to ''give-up'' his stuff. It seemed more ''necessary'' to hold on and learn more from his instruments of Self-Expressionism.
---What should we learn here? Be Where you are at and be Honest about it. This is not the real way to give things up.
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---Be Honest, To Be FREE, Psychologically---
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---To be free of something and still have it in our presence is like understanding ''to be in it, but not of it.'' It is also the understanding of, to ''Love something, we let it go.'' We can be psychologically free of our possessions and not be possessed by them. The attachment-detachment situation. If something affords us the luxury of Creative Self-Expression, then we have a Love Relationship with it and to it, and this ''thing'' has importance. It has value. We find we may not be through with it even if we do ''give it away.''
---Desire does not become a ''problem'' when we have a Love-Relationship. It is a Right Relationship. It is Creative Self-Expression. When it becomes ''not that'' is when the trouble starts. We then find ourselves dependent and not free of our things and really find we are possessed by our possessions. Our ''stuff'' owns ''us.'' We notice a weight in its presence and a weight in the trying to give it away. We still have ''issues'' with it, and in a sense have more to ''learn'' or ''unlearn'' from it. We have a Relationship to it or what it represents and it will live on until we bring the Relationship to Fulfillment. ''What we resist, persists.'' Be Well.

Ask Yourself If: ''What We Are Holding On To, Is Worth Holding On To?''