Exercise To Start Working Detachment with Material Things

Where we end up, we don't take anything material

And says the famous phrase of Buddha:

“The root of all suffering is attachment.”

How many things and people are we not attached to? Attachments weigh; they consume us and make us suffer. And the more we refuse to let them go, the more pain they cause us.

I want to share this exercise of detachment from material things, which I usually use with some of my patients.

We all have things that we no longer wear: clothes, shoes, accessories, objects, appliances, and so on. We often don't want to get rid of them because we argue: "Someday I'll use them."

But the years go by and that day does not come and sometimes, those clothes don't even come to us anymore, those shoes, we don't like them anymore, and we even keep buying more things; but we refuse to get rid of existing ones because we keep saying that "someday I will wear/wear them."

When we least realize it, we become "compulsive accumulators." We buy things we don't need, or if we use them, it's once and then, they end up crumbling, or we won't ever use them; but they keep coming together.

The same thing happens…