"Non-possession does not mean having nothing; it means not having unnecessary things. When we possess something, we end up being possessed by it."
Today's Question
Among the things you own, what is a 'burdensome possession' that robs you of time and attention to maintain rather than being a tool of convenience?
The practitioner who lived non-possession in a cabin
Venerable Beopjeong warned that material desires and complex possessions wither the human spirit, advocating for voluntary simplicity.
Publishing his essay 'Non-Possession' in 1976, he lived it by moving to a remote mountain cabin without electricity, grinding his own ink and fetching water to find true freedom.