If spending a bit of money is ok, you can implement the policy of throwing away things you don’t need. Then after a few cycles of buy thing → receive thing → throw away thing you’ll be deconditioned from buying useless things.
Most purchases I on reflection would prefer not to make are purchases where what I would receive would be worth much more than nothing but still less than the asking price, so I would never actually be compelled to throw out the superfluous stuff I buy.
Many times the purchase would even be worth more than the asking price, but I would like for my preferences to change such that it no longer would be the case.
If a bhikkhu monk can be content owning next to nothing, surely I can be happy owning less than I currently do. The question is how I change my preferences to become more like that of the monk.
If spending a bit of money is ok, you can implement the policy of throwing away things you don’t need. Then after a few cycles of buy thing → receive thing → throw away thing you’ll be deconditioned from buying useless things.
Most purchases I on reflection would prefer not to make are purchases where what I would receive would be worth much more than nothing but still less than the asking price, so I would never actually be compelled to throw out the superfluous stuff I buy.
Many times the purchase would even be worth more than the asking price, but I would like for my preferences to change such that it no longer would be the case.
If a bhikkhu monk can be content owning next to nothing, surely I can be happy owning less than I currently do. The question is how I change my preferences to become more like that of the monk.