Thoughts on Attachment (and Some Creative Writing Links)

I did something else with the previous post about writing, which we competence see during the later time. But for now, I'd only similar to to offer the few comments as well as links to my new beautiful writing blog, as well as the post here about attachment. For those of we who have an interest, we have posted the following over during Creative Writing the Dharma:

*a poem about second language learning

*some haiku
from my early days as the Zen student

*an letter about medieval maps, the house painter Vermeer, imagination, as well as Europe.

* as well as the short poetry poem.


Now, let's take the demeanour during the small comments from Dean's current blog post upon The Mindful Moment. About his sixteen month aged son, he writes:


The process of attachment, in saying him do this, is unequivocally utterly interesting. If we mark him before he makes his approach over to the TV remote as well as remove it before he arrives he's not as well upset. He'll only stand this the small unhappy demeanour upon his face as well as watch we walk divided with this prize. If we get to it when he's already hovering over it he'll cry the small which something so close to his learn was taken away. If I'm as well late as well as he gets reason of it the level of emotional angst he'll knowledge will be proportionate to how prolonged he's had reason of it. If only for the second afterwards not as well bad. If he had it for 10 seconds or some-more afterwards he'll let us know he's dissapoint which we've taken it away.

But isn't this something we all do? we see people craving after their iPad's or iPhones (or whatever it is they desire) as well as if the deal falls through they have been the bit disappointed. If we get the hands upon it however as well as it gets stolen we'll wail as well as cry many similar to my son. Even as adul! ts we do the same thing!! Our level of suffering is in proportion to the level of attachment.

This final line is many engaging to me. It gets during the approach in which, for example, the day to day we have for the prolonged time have been the hardest to break. For example, the fact which we infrequently bite my nails in reply to highlight and/or anxiety. This is an old, aged robe of mine, dating behind to childhood. And even yet it's not as strong as it used to be, it's rare which my finger nails have it the month without being chomped on, during slightest the small bit.

But day to day have been only one kind of attachment. Or one approach to report how we competence attach to someone or something. Lately, we have gifted the lot of opportunities to pay courtesy to attachments around identity. Honestly, they appear roughly endless. Just when there is the letting go which happens, as well as the small service seems to come, right behind it an additional narrative comes flaring up in an bid to fill the gap. This isn't the distressing thing; it's only how it is.

Dean talks in his post about pulling over the bounds you've created in your life. How the attachments to the certain approach of vital singular him as well as how he's been making the small conscious bid to change that. Right bid has unequivocally been upon my mind lately, generally since which we had outlayed many of the past multiform years vital the busy, infrequently in overdrive life, as well as right divided am in the duration that's utterly the opposite.

Attachment to spiritual teachings, rituals, as well as methods have been flattering common. And we think as such, it's substantially the great idea to go opposite the grain of whatever it is we reason precious once in awhile, to check which attachment. What's this have to do with Right Effort?

Here is the normal set of teachings from the Maha-cattarisaka Sutta: The Great Forty:

Abandoning the wrong factors of the path

"One tries to desert w! rong vie w & to come in in to right view: This is one's right effort...

"One tries to desert wrong resolve & to come in in to right resolve: This is one's right effort...

"One tries to desert wrong debate & to come in in to right speech: This is one's right effort...

"One tries to desert wrong action & to come in in to right action: This is one's right effort...

"One tries to desert wrong provision & to come in in to right livelihood: This is one's right effort."

All great stuff I'd say. And yet how easy it is to get hung up upon "right" as well as "wrong," perplexing to maintain the small sort of purity. If your similar to me, we substantially have had the small of which "good Buddhist" story using through your head. It's insidious. And if we have the total village of people using which narrative, afterwards it's doubly reinforced for any member.

So, what would it be similar to to upon purpose come in in to contend "wrong speech" or "wrong action," not to be contrary, though to notice attachments to being seen as the great practitioner? For many of the past two years, we have been skipping out upon shelter practice. The reasons behind this have been the churned bag, though newly it has occurred to me which doing meditation retreats is something which the small Buddhist communities - including my own - view as part of being the dedicated practitioner. Dedicated is unequivocally only an additional word for "good" when we demeanour during it closely. And I've beheld the tragedy we have gifted around this emanate - how we infrequently get hooked upon what my associate dharma brothers as well as sisters have been thinking about my absence from shelter practice. It's kind of stupid when we think about it - wanting to be "seen" as the "good student" - because in the end, it's unequivocally not about which during all. Being respected as well as towering inside of the village doesn't mean hunker when it comes to br! eaking t hrough greed, hatred, as well as ignorance. But it's so easy to dont think about which when you've outlayed many of your life perplexing to be liked as well as cared for by others.