Cleaning Out The Closet

You know how you feel when the day comes (usually in the Spring) when you open your closet and say to yourself, "I need to get rid of some of this stuff!  Do I really need all of these things?"  It's pretty easy to do if it is your closet. You take a deep breath, get a couple of bags and dig in. You keep going until the closet looks less cluttered.  You have a sense of having actually done something about the closet after thinking about it for so long.  How about your life?  I don't mean to be Forest Gumpy, but what if you looked at life the way you look at the closet?  What if you got rid of all the stuff you didn't need? Maybe, just maybe, when your cleaned out some of the life clutter you may find that things like frustration, anger, judgment, disappointment, dissatisfaction are cleared out as well.  Remember that the Buddha teaches that the roots of our "clutter" are anger, greed, and delusion.  Maybe it's time to start thinking about some Spring cleaning of the closets that are our lives.  Maybe, just maybe, we will suffer a little less in the process.