It is a great undertaking to look into the life within yourself. It reveals what you are. You are likely to find the familiar things like the stuff in your living room. Things to make you comfortable and support your comfort.These are the conditions.
Some of these things you carry in your wallet or wear around you like an ID bracelet. Your name, where you were born and when. The Buddha was born a prince in India. Everyone is born somewhere. Everyone puts together these things in order to be comfortable and to be recognized. Everyone puts together a resume.
And then you recall innumerable events, those moments that stand out for good or ill. They serve to comfort you as they are familiar and you may think you can count on them to continue to do so. They are formidable and you may feel bound to them.
The Buddha left behind his princely comforts in order to get to the bottom of what is going on here. He left his impressive heritage.
When you get right down to it, you may want to clear up the neurotic mind without being uncomfortable. Most of us want to add stuff to our broken pieces rather than let them go. You want it easy and your way.
If you're lucky, you might begin to get to the bottom of things. It requires an inner strength to confess the conditions of your life. To stretch them out on the game board and have a look at the moves you make to get what you want, to get what you think you need.
You need to be willing to unveil your self in the middle of all your reflected stuff.
And then there is a whole lot of giving up of all these inner conditions that keep you trapped.
Renunciation is slow and small at first, but it is necessary, otherwise your hoarding continues and the bare facts of where you are, who you are and what is going on here remain covered over.
