LOVE VERSUS ATTACHMENT
From what I have noticed over the years, a lot of people suffer because they are attached to things, to people, ideas, places… They can’t seem to allow things to just happen, they can’t allow people to just come and go in their lives, and they want to control everything and everyone.
Why? Because they are attached to all of these things. They are attached to the work they do, to their minds, to their egos… they are attached to everything and everyone.It is very important for us to learn that, with attachment comes pain, with attachment comes sadness, suffering, bitterness and anger, with attachment comes unhappiness.
Nothing is yours to keep, not even your mother or your father, your spouse or your children, your friends, your bank accounts or your career. You must learn to love them, value them, to be grateful for their presence in your life, to be grateful for the time you spend with them, but when the time comes, to let them go, to let them all go, with dignity, with love and with grace.
There is nothing wrong in allowing nature to take its course. Things are the way they are, neither good, nor bad, they just are. We are the ones attaching value to everything, we are the ones who call things good and bad, ugly and beautiful, we are the ones looking for reasons to always be offended all the time.
“All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no attachment there is no duality.”
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