The title of this post is from the Eesha Upanishad: a text so old that it's authors are unknown.
Proclaiming you have a right or title to something is like eating sand: doesn't make sense, isn't natural, not much nutritional value. You do it because it's an option... maybe you do it because everyone else is a sand eater. Don't be a sand eater.
Don't hold onto things! What do you own now that you owned as a baby? What function does a pacifier, a rattle, a perambulator hold for you as an adult? As you grow the things you possess shift beyond your needs.
Don't hold onto ideas. They rot. You change and so should they. There's nothing embarrassing about being a communist last year and a democrat this year. Allow your ideas to be shaped by your life, don't allow your life to be crippled by your ideas.
Even the body you have always lived in will become refuse.
There is a tremendous surrender in renouncing possessions and you become free.
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