We’re control freaks. We’re varying degrees of control freaks, but we’re all control freaks. We can’t help it, it’s in our biological makeup. I’m pretty sure even cavemen and women knew something of jealousy, possessiveness, and greed, and I’m also pretty sure that the capabilities of these tendencies to flourish have evolved along with our brains and bodies.
We are such control freaks that we have convinced ourselves that we are able to tell the future. We can’t. What we can do, is fear that we will go down a path that is mysterious.
Give it up! You aren’t in control, and all that means is that you actually don’t know what will happen when you venture out in any given direction. Of course there is a time for trusting your instincts, but
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In South America, some hunters employ a very interesting practice in order to capture wild monkeys. These hunters set traps by placing rice, a favorite of these monkeys, inside a coconut. The hole cut in the coconut is large enough for the monkey to get its hand into the coconut, but not large enough for it to be able to remove its hand after it makes a fist around the rice. The monkeys are always captured because they refuse to let go of the rice.
Sound familiar?
Time and again we allow ourselves to become entrapped by attachment.