Suffer for Fashion
One of my favourite blogs, Monkey See, Monkey Do has posted a video teaching by Ponlop Rinpoche on dualism.
Fashion is a very good dharma teaching. Right? When you see something in the window of the shop, “Oh wow! It looks so cool! This new design!” and we imagine ourselves being in that new shirt or trouser or skirt or what have you. And we have all kinds of concepts going on. What kind of bag I should carry, and what kind of shoes I should wear with it. And what kind of this and that. It goes on and on this fascination you know and we feel this is ultimate cool, ultimately cool, isn’t it! totally cool! I must get it. And we spend a lot of money. And after a few months, after a year, you open your wardrobe, closet and you see this particular shirt, particular dress that you have thought was absolutely cool. It looks so odd, right you wonder yourself why did I buy this? And especially when you think of the price that you paid, you get angry! Then that’s the time that we start to blame others. Oh! They ripped me off!
Of Montreal- “Suffer for Fashion” one of my fave songs of theirs…
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