Attachment Isn’t the Enemy. The Struggle to Let Go Is
Stillness in the Storms
- Published
- July 27, 2025
- Duration
- 23:27
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Oct 11, 2026
Discusses health, mental, religion, society, culture.
Summary
Is attachment really the enemy? No. It is the struggling to let go that hurts.I smoked for the best part of thirty years. I am attached to pleasure, to hope, to feeling well. The Western version of this is that you must give everything up, and that is not it. Try pushing a bird off your hand and telling it to go. It leaves and it comes back. My council pu…
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Is attachment really the enemy? No. It is the struggling to let go that hurts.I smoked for the best part of thirty years. I am attached to pleasure, to hope, to feeling well. The Western version of this is that you must give everything up, and that is not it. Try pushing a bird off your hand and telling it to go. It leaves and it comes back. My council put a new kitchen in and I hated going in there for weeks, and then I did not. Stop chasing the carrot and it stops running. Just let the hour pa
Themes
- health
- mental
- religion
- society
- culture