Aparigraha - Abstention from greed. Not coveting that which is not ours. Avoidance of unnecessary acquisition of objects not essential to maintaining life or spiritual study.
I heard someone in a meeting once explain the difference between needs and wants. Needs are food and water and a dry, warm place to sleep. Everything else is a want. I like simple explanations.
Maybe I should stop looking at pictures of Porsches on the InterWeb.
The word parigrah means ‘to amass’, ‘to crave’, ‘to seek’, ‘to seize’, and ‘to receive or accept’ material possessions or gifts from others. The word also includes the idea of doing good with the expectation of benefit or reward, not just for the sake of merely doing good. Parigraha includes the results as well as the intent; in other words, it means the attitudes of craving, possessiveness, and hoarding, but also the things that have been acquired because of those attitudes. The virtue of aparigraha means taking what is truly necessary and no more.
Always be yourself. Unless you can be a unicorn. Then always be a unicorn.
Non-possessiveness.
Let Go or Be Dragged. Letting go is not the same as giving up.
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