Tuesday, September 1, 2009

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Two ways of renouncing material posessions:

To give them up with a view to some spiritual advantage.

To Conceive of them and feel them as conducive to spiritual well-being (for example: hunger, fatigue and humiliation cloud the mind and hinder meditation) and yet to renounce them.

Only the second kind of renunciation means nakedness of spirit.

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