The idea of property has a close association of our sense of self, our ego — Once upon a time there was the sage who possessed nothing in the world except a piece of cloth that he tied about his waist. One day as he was walking down the road, the cloth got stuck on a thorny bush and it pulled away from his body. As he was about to catch the cloth to hide his nakedness,the sage asked himself, “Isn’t the act of holding onto the cloth attachment? As a hermit have I not renounced the world? By holding onto the cloth does it not mean that I still cling to certain material possessions? Am I then a true ascetic?”

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