Why physical attachments bring us pain?

Extract from Tommy Wong's book, "Wisdom on How to Live Life"

Tom: Okay, why physical attachments bring us pain?

Guru: You see after we take up a body, everyday of our life, we walk with the body, we sit with the body, we talk with the body, we eat with the body and we sleep with the body.

Tom: Yes.

Guru: So we spend every minute of our life with the body.

Tom: Yes.

Guru: So we are very close to the body. In fact, there’s no other physical object that can be closer, right?

Tom: Right.

Guru: Yet on the day we die, can we bring the body with us?

Tom: No, actually that’s the definition of death.

Guru: Then can we bring other objects that are external to the body?

Tom: Since we can’t bring the body, how can we bring objects that are external to the body?

Guru: That’s the cause of pain. We’re attached to objects and yet we can’t keep them. In fact, we’re bound to lose them - sooner or later, and the latest time is the moment of death.

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