seems like you or me

he said you give up your links to material goods
you give up your jewellery and clothing
you give up your links to your friends
you give up your links to your brothers and sisters
but what got me was when he said you give up your choice of what food you were going to have
how can choosing food be bad... i mean i understand giving up desires but please if i couldn't have a chilli and cheese mrs macs pie every now and then i'd be like "why the hell not, i love the shit"
and this is in order for you choose a little room on a hill
with a courtyard you can pace on and be able to spend the rest of your days trying to reach enlightenment
buddists talk about this blissful state of just being in order not to be reincarnated
we are less "wise" i suppose by being human, we still have things to learn... this is what is taught

in my thinking i suppose i don't believe in this higher state of existence, or perhaps i do but its not something you only get after you've lived a certain way
a clear, not worldly orientated existence seems strange when you are of this world
its like saying im being but in order not to be here... slightly contradictory

anyway i think the strength it would take to live that existence is admirable
i suppose its a question of whether it would be worth it and because i don't consider this higher conciousness state something that is seperate from myself anyhow... i suppose i do consider it would be worthwhile if more parts of the whole / more humans were on this wavelength tho, so i guess i do think its worth it, i just don't know whether knowing i gave myself a human existance that it isn't a human existance that i am to lead