The Buddha

I love everything that Buddha is saying. I’m not sure what name I should call him. I think he has a really good point on everything. If something is unwholesome and bad for you, just don’t do it. And when something is wholesome and good for you, then do it. So many people today, even myself, hear that little voice in the back of our head telling us something is bad for us morally or physically, but we choose to ignore that little voice and do it anyways. I think most people know the difference between right and wrong to an extent but when we choose to ignore ourselves and just do the wrong anyways, the line between right and wrong becomes thinner and thinner. Some of the excuses people use to justify the wrong they’re doing are really stupid. Whether it’s “Oh, that girl has been really mean to everyone so I don’t care about being mean to her.” No, that’s not okay. Or “Everyone in my family has drug problems so there’s no hope for me, why fight it,” even stupider. If it’s bad-don’t do it, if it’s good-do it. That’d be amazing if everyone could follow that.

I just wrote a long paragraph about the raft, but now I don't know where I was going with that. I think if you look at what he's saying in a physical way is that once you've used something for what it was needed to do, then leave it. I think about everything most American families have used, and can no longer use, but they still keep everything. Think of all the old skis and snowboards and stuffed animals in everyone’s garages. Even all the old clothes that we no longer want to wear or no longer fit us, but we still keep everything in the back of our closet. Most people have soooo much stuff that we’re never going to use, so I don’t know why we hold on to it. And I don’t know why we can’t let go. Think of all the good our stuff could do for other people if we just let it go. There’s a lot of people that need our clutter more than we do.