Quality
Respect your body the same way as you respect your soul.
But to our body we have attached different identities to it like of a Father, Mother, son, daughter, doctor, Engineer, Lawyer, Politician, Businessman etc.
When a person disidentifies with his body, he experiences his soul. Try to understand this clearly. When a person drops attachment to his body, then the luminosity that comes to his eyes for the first time is that of his own flame, his own soul; it is that of the ghatakash – the sky within the pot. And when somebody becomes free even from the universal body of the whole, what he experiences then is that of the flame of Brahman, the absolute.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
The Buddha taught that attachment, which is the desire to hold on to a permanent state or keep a thing or person, generates craving, wanting, and insecurity, and he believed it is one of the main causes of human suffering.
Non-attachment, on the other hand, aims to cultivate a mind free from these limiting desires. Once we do this we can then move towards a mind of oneness, which involves compassion, clarity of vision, and an understanding of impermanence.
Not only do humans become attached to physical objects or things, but also to relationships, ideas, opinions, and success and failure. Most of the problems we face as a species and planet are a direct result of our attachment to one or more of these things.
If there is one thing that remains certain in this life, it is change. As soon as we realize the impermanence of our existence it becomes much easier to let go of attachment. While in theory this sounds easy, however, even the greatest of masters struggle with letting go…
Humans tend to hold on to things, but this futile grasping, this attachment, most often leads to pain and suffering. This is because we internalize possessions, relationships, or other objects of desire. Let me explain. Suppose I have access to something or someone from whom I derive pleasure, happiness, or some form of enjoyment, then suddenly this access is taken away. What happens? If we are attached, we suffer; we feel like we have been robbed. We feel like something that was once ‘ours’ is no longer. Hence, we suffer and experience pain.
The human mind is an aggregate of conditions, beliefs, experiences, and perceptions. We start building mental models of the way things should be. As most of us do not live in the present, we hang on to these illusions which exist only in our minds. When something comes along that doesn’t correlate with our illusory mental states, we again suffer and again experience pain. This is because we have anchored or attached onto some object, experience, or desire that we wish to possess.
Quality of Bottle: Drop Attachment
