ATTACHMENTS - My Take
ATTACHMENTS ! The word somewhere sound a bit heavy and the immidiate reaction is to get rid of them .Truely , the moment we get attached , a new journey begins ! The journey to dettachment ! Every relationship goes through loneliness, attachment and then the need to be free .
Wonder what happens when you dont have attachment ?
Ever met people who are not attached ? I get two kinds of clients - not attached and lonely & attached and suffocating . The happily attached and detached dont come to me for counseling .But would be great to know that phase .
Actually there was this intresting phase when you were attached to fun , games , excitement ! Even a roller coaster could make me happy and winning a chor police was exhilirating . Then the inevetable happened . I got attached to the friends who played with me and the game was lost . The focus shifeted so gradually that i never realized when one by one i lost intrest in all games and the attachments were the leftovers that remained with me . Still trying to make the fun come back but now it is the fear of loosing attachments .
Someone just told me a while ago that attachments cannot be dissolved as they emanate from the basic human need to give , love and nurture ,ATTACHMENTS can only be diluted or expanded !
The technique is very simple - work in areas of no feed backs ! Which means selfless social work without telling anyone and not wanting to be the secretary or chairperson of NGO . Not taking friends while helping the underprivileged ! Not even disclosing your identity ! The idea i was told is to expand your consciousness and expand the periphery further away from your vision . Can you think of some one you know of someone who did this or a time when you did it ? Worth exploring !
Wonder what happens when you dont have attachment ?
Ever met people who are not attached ? I get two kinds of clients - not attached and lonely & attached and suffocating . The happily attached and detached dont come to me for counseling .But would be great to know that phase .
Actually there was this intresting phase when you were attached to fun , games , excitement ! Even a roller coaster could make me happy and winning a chor police was exhilirating . Then the inevetable happened . I got attached to the friends who played with me and the game was lost . The focus shifeted so gradually that i never realized when one by one i lost intrest in all games and the attachments were the leftovers that remained with me . Still trying to make the fun come back but now it is the fear of loosing attachments .
Someone just told me a while ago that attachments cannot be dissolved as they emanate from the basic human need to give , love and nurture ,ATTACHMENTS can only be diluted or expanded !
The technique is very simple - work in areas of no feed backs ! Which means selfless social work without telling anyone and not wanting to be the secretary or chairperson of NGO . Not taking friends while helping the underprivileged ! Not even disclosing your identity ! The idea i was told is to expand your consciousness and expand the periphery further away from your vision . Can you think of some one you know of someone who did this or a time when you did it ? Worth exploring !
I relived our thurs vedant class-Bharati
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