We enter a gift shop. We see so many small things, feeling of abundance arises. We see that heart shaped gift and suddenly mind is filled with love and thoughts of person we love. We see new things and are awed. We see nicely designed small things and we wonder the satisfaction of person who created would have. We entered the shop with worries, fatigue and bad mood, those have left us or are standing outside the door.
We don't own any of those products. We are going to be in the shop for only few minutes. We cannot modify/make changes to the shop. We know that we might buy one or two, rest we are happy just seeing. Can mere seeing and walking around make people happy?
The fact that we cannot make any changes or violate the expectation of shop is what is called non-violence. The fact that we don't own any of the items falls into the scope of non-attachment. We could have a view where we walk into life like that, not violate anything, be non-attached and stay here constantly being happy.
The only way to wear a white shirt and tour a coal mine and come out clean will be to not play a lot with coal. Inner Self or call it Soul is like a white shirt that gets dirty in this world resembling a coal mine.
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