Of course the ultimate would be to renunciate everything, take on the monk vows and continue to pursue our spiritual goals. Of course for us up to our necks in samsara find it extremely difficult. But is it?
Sure it sounds "scary" to give up everything you hold dear in your life (at least what you have been told from a child), but if we think of how we came into this world and how we ARE going to leave it, it really is a no brainer!
Of course it is easy to hypothesis and say this, that and the other, but the crux of the matter is, the only thing that is holding us "back", so to speak, from continuing our spiritual journey in that ultimate path is our sense of greed, selfishness and pride. No ifs, whats or buts about it really!
Sometimes I ponder on these very attachments I have and I think of what it would be like to actually renounce all I have. I ask myself these questions which I would like to put out here for us to all ponder on from our samsaric views:
1. Would I be able to do it?
2. Am I "losing" anything?
3. What do I gain?
4. What is it to really "renounce" in this day and age?
The last question is a very valid and pertinent question as we all have varying "degrees" of attachments (or so we think?
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. For example, some of us are married with kids and of course "abandoning" them for our spiritual goal is not exactly the right thing to do. As the saying goes, "you make you bed, you lie in it".