Faster and bigger = better
You can subscribe to that, it seems everywhere you go everyone subscribe to that equation as their life’s philosophy. Just because something is pervasive and loud is not guarantee to be the “one size fits all” panacea.
Buddhism is about individuality, it’s about you within your true self, and it is just as pervasive as faster and bigger if you know how to look, and what to look for. Meet our friend Mies, as in Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who adopted “Less is More” as his mantra for his work as the Architect that brought to the world timeless icons like the Barcelona Chair and the Farnsworth House.
So, what would happen is you were to adopt the Less is More mantra? Will a gift to yourself be to donate some of your possession to reclaim some space in your home? What if for the upcoming holiday season you give the gift of love to your friends and family by marking on your calendar some special time to spend together enjoying their company, their presence, their conversation, and just the sense of BE-ing?
Let Less is More sit with you like a Kōan, let it be part of your vernacular, and try it on for measure, it might fit funny at the beginning, but you might find out that – as you progress in your journey to the center of yourself – it might grow on you, you might find out that it was always a part of you, you were born with it and enjoyed it, it was only obfuscated by the faster and bigger habit. Time for new habits, time for the real you.
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