Takes Commitment and Resolve

I know I can get caught up when I go window shopping on the computer. I was doing some reading at Buddhanet and I had this great idea to get a larger Buddha statue for the meditation room. There is a small one in the room now that is suffient but of course my untrained mind went looking on the internet. This led to an onslaught of information I did not need and some craving I did not need. I saw some beautiful Buddha statues I could not afford and for what? After a web page loaded that was full of advertising and flashing colors I thought what am I doing and I regained control. I could try to blame this on something I learned today about meditation but that would be wrong. I know you don't need anything special for your mediation practice. It was just another example of my western conditioning to be a wasteful consumer. To fight the impulse takes commitment and resolve and I did it today.