New Hair....

Someone I know who recently cut her long, thick, gorgeous hair short said to me when I asked her why she cut it: "I didn't want to be too attached to my hair."

A few thoughts on attachment to material and physical things:

Buddha says in the Sutta Nipata, "Greed, I say, is a great flood; it is a whirlpool sucking one down, a constant yearning, seeking a hold, continually in movement; difficult to cross is the morass of sensual desire. A sage does not deviate from truth, a brahmana stands on firm ground; renouncing all, he is truly called 'calmed.'" Those that have reached a calm nature and have renounced material things are free from this world of difficulty and constant yearning.

Buddha spoke elsewhere about greed: "Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind."

Mother Teresa said, "It is easy to let yourself get smothered by material things. Once you have them, you have to devote time to take care of them. And then you have no time for one another..."

I'm perusing this philosophy quite a bit these days, I guess. And it was time for a change. And I WAS too attached to my hair! So...new hair!!!