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There are a variety of ways to
discuss attachments. All that really needs to be understood is that
attachments are the essence of how we create the experiences we
have. Our attachments are what gives rise to
creation/Creation.
It is through our attachments that we bind our
creative life energy for the purpose of creating a particular
type and kind of experience. In this regard, attachments are really
neither good nor bad, they are just part of the process. The
question is whether or not we hold onto them. Our attachments arise
from holding onto people, places and experiences that need to pass
out of our life. To create something new we will need to release
that to which we are attached that is creating our current
experiences.
On this notes it must be realize that a dislike and avoidance of
something is just a powerful attachment as a desire for something.
For example, if we desire to “leave” the
Physical Creation for whatever reason, we need to understand the
reason for wanting to leave is an attachment that will hold us to
the physical reality we desire to escape. If we desire to leave the
physical plane because we dislike the
pain of the physical, that dislike will keep us bound. If we
desire to become spiritual because it is some how perceived as being
“better” than the physical, that too is an attachment. If we like
the physical plane, that too is an attachment.
What we will find is that until we find
true freedom and become like the wind, coming with nothing (no
expectations or attachments) and leaving with nothing (no
expectations or attachments) , we will not become free of the
physical.
The issue of attachments is a matter of learning to become happy
with is as it is. It is not a matter of becoming desires less for
desire is the
raw material of creation/Creation. Rather it is being happy with
the desires we have and happy with what our desires create. On this
point it must be realize all the desires we have are not necessarily
ours.
Our body has desires just to sustain it and we have
incarnated to play a role. That role will require us to do
certain things. Some of the desires are from the
Physical Creation. Some things our
mind may judge as acceptable and some we may judge as
unacceptable. If however we learns to align with the flow of our
creative life energy surrendering to its lead, freeing ourselves
from our attachments and learning to be happy with what is and where
it takes us, we will find that they can live like the wind, free and
unattached. We will also be able to be in the state of
wonderment and “Ah” at Creation. We will live in the spontaneous
and innocent
childlike play
of discovery and exploration for we will truly be exploring the
unknown depths of our own being and that of Creation.
The problem with attachments is they cause us to become rebellious
within our own nature moving us closer and closer to our external
physical creations and further and further away from the
source/Source
of our being and our own creative power. Similarly to push away from
the physical world to seek some spiritual realm or heaven also
pushes us away from the source/Source of our being. In addition to
moving to the opposite side of the duality of
Physical Creation we deny the
creative powers/Creative Powers
that created Creation as it is.
The more and more we attach to our creations we eventually become
completely attracted to our creations, physical or otherwise, we
actually forget we are the creators of what we experience. In doing
so, we lose the very power and ability of creativity that we had set
in motion. We become one with our creations, rather than remaining
in the state of oneness with the Source of our being and our
creation. When we associates with the creation the loss of creative
power is so complete that we become that which they create totally
forgetting our power to create. In doing so we experiences
pain and fear on the physical level and no longer see the
pain as the gift it is. We lose our conscious awareness of being
the creators that we are. When we lose the conscious awareness as
the creator that we are, our
creative spirit becomes lost and move to an
nonconscious state, unaware of its divine origin as a being of
unlimited creativity
and unlimited creative ability creative power.
It is interesting to note that hell has traditionally been
characterized as a place of being cast into a darkness and being
separated from the illumination of the Divine. Yet that is what
happens when a human becomes so attached to their creation or
Creation and lose touch with their own
creative
ability and creative power. In doing so they loose touch with
the
source/Source
of their being and the source/Source of their passion for life and
for living. In this realization it can easily be seen how one can
create hell here in the present world simply by how and what they
think, believe and to what they become attached.
Our attachments give rise to all the phenomenon we face in life for
are attachment are how we create the experiences we have. For
example it is our attachment to experiences we have that we use to
define ourselves that gives rise to our
ego. Our ego is simply
a cage of our own making in which we put our
creative spirit and use to hold captive our
creative power and creative ability to have the experiences we
have. We each need to discover how we have come to believe who we
think we are so that we can transform that ego identity to recreate
our selves in a way that allow us to create and experience both the
experiences and the reality of our choice.
In this regard,
death is a failsafe mechanism use to prevent us from becoming
trapped. Death as you experience it is needed so that we don’t get
trapped as a result of our attachments. In reality there is no
death. There is only the transformation of what is into something
else. Death as it is currently experienced is a safety measure put
into place so that you don't become trapped. There is no reason to
die other than to release all that you have come to think you are.
In this regard a part of us will need to die for every creative
endeavor we undertake and is reflected in the
sacrifice of creation in the
creative/creation process. Otherwise there will be not room for
a new creation.
The alternative to living with attachment is to be fully present to
now that is, to allow ourselves to die each moment. To be present to
now is to be mindful and aware. It is to not live in the past nor
the future but to be present to what is, as it is. To be present to
now is to be
out of mind
and what we think and the judgements we have. If we observe
ourselves at any given moment we will find we are thinking how we
like or dislike what we are experiencing. Or, we are thinking about
what we will do at some future time or remember something that has
happened in the past. The more we are doing something that is of
habit the more we can allow ourselves to not be present to what you
are doing but off thinking about something else.
To become free of attachments, we must become like the wind, no
past, no future. Coming with nothing and living with nothing and
living in the moment. It is very hart to live that way in life. But
what we only really need to do is to be able to be present in the
moment
out of mind
and what
mind thinks and believes when our
body wisdom and
intuitive guidance present what they know. We need to be able to
see what our body wisdom and intuitive guidance presents before mind
jumps in and judges or some how changes what is presented. If we can
be mindful, awake and aware to be unattached to a past and a future,
it is in that moment when body wisdom and intuitive guidance speaks
that anything is possible.
To release our attachments, we need to reach out unselfishly and
unattached in our actions. We can hope for the best and long for
what we desire. Hope and longing are fine. Expectation is not. When
we expect, disappointment is always lurking nearby. Think of the
difference in opening several birthday gifts when we hope for
something and we expects something and it doesn’t arrive. There is a
sadness and disappointment in hope but there is no feeling of
betrayal in it as when we expects. With betrayal,
trust is lost. With hope, trust is never lost. Hope just looks
to a new way to manifest.
Related topic
How we bind the free flow of our creative life energy
How we create our experiences
Becoming like the wind
The question of love
Attachments in Physical Creation
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