"Learn to let go, that's the key to happiness." (Buddha)
There is a story of how to catch a monkey in a simple way: It takes a box with a hole just large enough that the monkey can tuck in his hand. In the box you put a banana and now clings when the monkey a banana, he is a prisoner of himself, the clip effect is so strong that he would rather voluntarily binds to the box, let go and go on as in freedom ...
What fruits of life we cling? To which cases we are bound, rather than living in freedom?
release is a fine art, the Buddha said, it teaches the Bible and actually we do but also the almost daily experience that the one who manages to let go one of the winners.
But all of human history is marked by the brackets. With the first handle to the "forbidden fruit", the man has made a slave of himself. We are caught in our greed, our "Must-do-just-have-but-now-and-now." Eva said that everything would be better with a handle to the fruit. Since then we think again that we would make this handle the fruit happy - and we make ourselves like the monkeys at ridiculous prisoners, which include volunteer themselves in a box - the grip effect of the "Must-have-will" (or is the idea of how to be God), in this Moment greater than the mind that we could say otherwise.
The fruit was then not the problem, which it remains today: In the garden, the fruit hung just at the wrong tree and the fruit is easy for us in the wrong box. God gave Adam and Eve a whole garden full of fruit. But Eva wanted "them". God blessed us with abundance so often - but we want this very seductive fruit in this box.
Why?
Jesus: "Anyone who clings to his life shall lose it. Who uses it but for me, who will win forever. " (Matthew 10:39)
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