Comments on: Catching a Monkey http://www.karmadude.com/2007/04/06/catching-a-monkey/ Change your Mind, Change the World Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:34:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: KarmaDude http://www.karmadude.com/2007/04/06/catching-a-monkey/comment-page-1/#comment-11734 KarmaDude Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:53:45 +0000 http://www.karmadude.com/2007/04/06/catching-a-monkey/#comment-11734 @Tracy, I had a feeling this technique for catching monkeys applied to other places too. Thanks for sharing your childhood memory. Even though the story is an example for how attachment can bring us suffering, I wonder if attachment is a necessary natural instinct for survival? Could suppressing it lead to more suffering, especially the attachments necessary for survival? @Tracy, I had a feeling this technique for catching monkeys applied to other places too. Thanks for sharing your childhood memory.

Even though the story is an example for how attachment can bring us suffering, I wonder if attachment is a necessary natural instinct for survival? Could suppressing it lead to more suffering, especially the attachments necessary for survival?

]]> By: Tracy http://www.karmadude.com/2007/04/06/catching-a-monkey/comment-page-1/#comment-11732 Tracy Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:32:50 +0000 http://www.karmadude.com/2007/04/06/catching-a-monkey/#comment-11732 Thanks for a reminder of childhood, and a lesson learned. Where I grew up in Africa, boys would catch monkeys by using a hollowed out melon, and putting something in it that the monkeys wanted. As a newcomer to Buddhism, I am trying to learn non-attachment, this story illustrated it beautifully for me! Thanks for a reminder of childhood, and a lesson learned. Where I grew up in Africa, boys would catch monkeys by using a hollowed out melon, and putting something in it that the monkeys wanted. As a newcomer to Buddhism, I am trying to learn non-attachment, this story illustrated it beautifully for me!

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