One of the false belief is a sense of belonging. We think we can own something. So, when we get what we want we are happy. It will lead to greed. And when we don’t get what we want we feel unhappy. It will lead to anger. In such a way we are bonded with greed and anger. We are not free. But we can’t notice about that bondage because of delusion that we assume that we can possess something.

Actually we have a false sense of belonging. This is a delusion. Based on delusion greed arises in our mind when things are pleasant and agreeable with our sense. How do you know there is a greed happened in our mind? If you differentiate or distinguish between need and want, you can notice the greed once it happens in your mind.

If you have a right knowledge that there is no ownership, there is just the relation between two things. It may be persons or it may be things or it may be person and thing. When you ride a bus you have to pay for your ride. You can use the bus but you know it is not yours. In the same way you take a taxi and you pay for it. It is not yours. There is no question for the ownership, just the relation. But when you buy a car paying some large amount of money, you think you own your car. This is the delusion, a false belief of belonging.

So, you don’t have right knowledge or you don’t know the reality there is the delusion. If there is the delusion, there is a greed. If there is a greed, there is an anger. You can’t differentiate between need and want there is an ignorance. It will lead to false belief or delusion. It is a source of greed and anger. If there is greed and anger happened in your mind you are bonded or fettered or chained with them. You can’t feel free. You can’t feel eased. That means you have no peace of mind.

If you realise the thing the way it is you can expel the delusion. If there is no delusion, there is no greed. If there is no greed, there is no anger. With the absence of greed, anger and delusion you feel peaceful and you can stop the suffering.

Light and Darkness

When the light is blocked darkness appears. In such a case everybody cannot deny is that the darkness is not possessed by anybody or anything because it is a nature. But, when you walk in the sunlight there is a shade. In such a case what you think of it is my shade. Is it impossible to be a shade of somebody else. You take it as your own. You can’t realise it is a false belief of belonging.

Actually, when the sunlight is blocked, the darkness gets appeared on the ground. It is a nature. It cannot be owned by anybody or anything. It happens according to the natural law of cause and effect. If you know the way it is as a natural process your false belief of belonging will be dispossessed and come to stop.

In the world everything happened has a cause. Without a cause nothing happens. It is a natural law of cause and effect. This is the relation, not belonging.

Your Life is your choice

When you open your eye, seeing the thing is unavoidable or inevitable, not because you want it, but because your eye comes into contact with the sight. In such a way when I speak something you hear not because you want it, but because the sound strikes the ear. Hearing cannot be avoidable. You can’t control it. Seeing and hearing are happening according to their cause, not based on your desire or irrespective of your desire whether you want it or not.

Suppose you plant a tree. You have to do what is necessary, just pouring water, feeding manure, cleaning weeds, taking care of it not to be destructed by insects. But you can’t own it. The tree cannot grow and bear the flower and fruit the way you want. It is growing on it own. It will blossom and bear the fruit, not because you want, but because the cause and condition are fulfilled. You have to wait for such a time.

Otherwise, you will suffer because everything will not happen the way you want. You become unsatisfactory and unhappy. If you see the cause and condition of whatever you experience, you will accept and understand what is happening in the world and you try to fulfill what is needed as much as you can.

If you want to draw the conclusion from that situation, this natural law will come out.

If there is a cause, there is an effect. No cause, no effect.
Everything happened has a cause. Without a cause nothing happens.

So, in the same way, if you want to do something you have to fulfill the cause. Don’t worry about the outcome. It will arise according to the cause. Your duty is to pay full attention to the cause.

What you have to do is to fulfill the present what you need, the future will take charge of itself. You don’t have to worry about it. In this way, the fear in the future that is uncertain will be lost in your language.

Your life is your choice. Your choice is in your hand.
(Your life should be well planned and well managed.)
You are the result of your action.