Attachment

Some have asked about the nature of attachment and why the mind attaches its self to the material and the psychological. Many people have the view that to merely "detach" themselves is all that is needed to follow the "Buddhist" nominal ideal of unattachment. One must look deeper into the origin of attachment and not get bogged down by whether one is attached or not. On the surface it seems a simple thing to simply deny attachment which is what most people do. If you ask yourself this question: In truth, do you have an expectation? Then it is possible to realize that all expectations are the result of attachment. All the very subtle movements of thought are ingrained with expectation. Indeed to think about anything is to expect. So you may begin to see that the mind exist in a state of attachment. To merely say that you are unattached is in the reality of the moment, just another form of attachment. As long as the mind holds any ideals that suggest a conclusion you are attached. You may be a "Buddhist" that is just in denial. There are many articles that purport to explain attachment in the Buddhist sense and to provide understanding. But true understanding is never the result of something provided by another. Understanding is in the "experiencing" of the absolute moment. The moment reveals the true self. No amount of practice or study will bring you to that place. Logically and intuitively it is realized that the self as the one who knows cannot possibly be unattached.

Is there a state of existence that is beyond the ideals of attachment and unattachment? That is can one realize the subtlety of a mind that is seeking to be unattached through attachment? If one defines the other then are we not in the illusion of a self that is caught in the duality of time/space, a movement toward a desired end. Which in its self is just a continuity or continuation of what has been...our self created state of defined attachment. So one cannot through the efforts of a practice or a philosophy or ??? "become" unattached. Seeing that the conditioning of self is that one be attached, then it is realized that all attempts at unattachment are simply the illusion of the defined therefore the attached.

When you are totally free of the conditioned mind then a byproduct of that freedom is unattachment, which goes beyond the defined. It is not a conceptual ideal of accomplishment or a sign of "arrival" or any other such nonsense which you may feel separates you from others. One who is "unattached" does not "know" that he or she is "unattached". One only stays with the truth of the moment and realizes a peace that cannot be disturbed. If a person says or thinks that they are unattached, they are in reality, the most attached.