Mendalla ---you said -------Which, I think, is really the attitude Jesus is seeking. Lack of attachment to the material. Much like Buddha that way.
I say ---for me there is a big difference between the way Buddha tells people to seek detachment to the material and Jesus way to seek detachment to the material ------just thought I would point out the difference -----
Buddha does it through self meditation -------the person is on their own to try and attain that goal ------the question then becomes does that say we humans all by ourselves have the strength and ability to put down our self desires of wants ----if this is so then God didn't need to create the Bible ---and Jesus died for nothing -----all we humans have to do is meditate and all sickness and disease ---all stress ---all bad situations in our lives can be erased all by our selves through meditation -----
The way to beat detachment to material in the Bible is to rely on God's Grace which comes through Faith ----not through self meditation ----Grace is very powerful and gives people the ability to be able to resist stuff attachment -
Grace is a person -----Jesus is Grace
This says it best -for me ----
The Divine Power of Grace
www.churchofjesuschrist.org
Of all the attributes of Jesus Christ, perhaps the most significant is that He is “full of grace” (
John 1:14). In the scriptures the term
grace most often refers to the divine disposition and power to bless, bestow gifts, or otherwise act favorably toward man. The Bible Dictionary puts it this way: “The main idea of the word [
grace] is divine means of help or strength. …
Grace is an enabling power” (“Grace”). It enables the recipient to do and to be what he or she cannot do and cannot be if left to his or her own means.
