Post by dan on Jan 8, 2014 21:40:40 GMT 1
Dan, are you referring to the strength of the "habit" which keeps me locked in "material" mode or something else?
Jeff
No, I was referring to the thread you started, "How close to reality do you operate?" wherein you mention financial security being with you, but no less worrying about money/business. The part Matt quoted above which I think that is specifically relevant:
These habitual tendencies are the most difficult of all to purify because they are constantly retaining the memory of what you are doing. They retain that memory and, although so far as we are concerned, that memory is not important, nonetheless we will always be referring to that memory.
Financial security is being with the motivation to avoid its conceptual opposite while "constantly retaining the memory of what you are doing....always...referring to that" motivation.
It seems to me that security of any sort is built on the basis of insecurity, which isn't a stable foundation, hence the refuge, the four thoughts--especially impermanence & death--the four immeasurables, etc.