Episode 71 - Letting Go of Attachment

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Attachment is defined as a mental affliction, which is a habit that robs causes us suffering. Attachment arises like this:</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>We encounter something pleasant + inappropriate attention/exaggerating its good qualities = attachment arises (the feeling we can not be happy without it)</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sometimes we are attached to people being different than they are, to being right, drugs, alcohol, or unhealthy food. In all these cases, it is not the person or object that makes us unhappy, but our attachment that causes us to suffer.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What attachment is not:</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Letting go of attachment does not mean that we don’t own things, but that those things don’t own us. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Letting go of attachment doesn’t mean that we don’t have love others, but that we love them without attachment. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Longing gives rise to grief; </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Longing gives rise to fear. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For someone released from longing </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is no grief; </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And from where would come fear? (212) </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Affection gives rise to grief; </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Affection gives rise to fear. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For someone released from affection </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is no grief; </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And from where would come fear? (213) </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Infatuation gives rise to grief; </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Infatuation gives rise to fear. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For someone