The Detachment
Autor: William Malinverni | Publicado: 2011-07-18T17:27:00-07:00

Hello everybody!
This week&nbsp;we'll talk about&nbsp;detachment.&nbsp;But what&nbsp;would be the detachment?&nbsp;According to the dictionary&nbsp;detachment is&nbsp;indifference, disaffection,&nbsp;disenchantment,&nbsp;and lack&nbsp;of attachment.&nbsp;Is that right?
In parts, yes,&nbsp;detachment&nbsp;would in reality be&nbsp;just the lack&nbsp;of attachment,&nbsp;detachment&nbsp;does not mean&nbsp;it&nbsp;at any time&nbsp;disinterest, dislike&nbsp;or&nbsp;disenchantment&nbsp;(which are just&nbsp;"synonyms"), detachment understood&nbsp;realize&nbsp;the impermanence&nbsp;of things&nbsp;that pass&nbsp;by our lives, but at the&nbsp;same time&nbsp;he understands&nbsp;it that&nbsp;does not diminish their love or&nbsp;affection,&nbsp;much less&nbsp;act&nbsp;with indifference.
People&nbsp;attached&nbsp;people&nbsp;become&nbsp;restless&nbsp;and suffering people, as&nbsp;if lost in the&nbsp;past (recent&nbsp;or&nbsp;long) and&nbsp;brings into&nbsp;the present,&nbsp;in an attempt&nbsp;to revive&nbsp;their memories, so&nbsp;the attachment&nbsp;would be&nbsp;the memory of the&nbsp;"pain" or&nbsp;"pleasure" past&nbsp;behind,&nbsp;every pain&nbsp;or sorrow hide&nbsp;an attachment.
The people&nbsp;attached&nbsp;attaches to&nbsp;mental&nbsp;crystallizations&nbsp;and ends up becoming&nbsp;a prisoner&nbsp;of his&nbsp;own memories, bringing&nbsp;into his inner world&nbsp;the suffer&nbsp;and anxiety.&nbsp;As&nbsp;a&nbsp;Buddhist thought:&nbsp;"When the wind comes&nbsp;and swings&nbsp;bamboo, bamboo&nbsp;does not save&nbsp;the sound&nbsp;after the wind&nbsp;has passed. When the&nbsp;geese&nbsp;cross the lake, the lake&nbsp;does not keep&nbsp;their reflections&nbsp;after they&nbsp;are gone.&nbsp;Likewise,&nbsp;the minds of&nbsp;enlightened people&nbsp;are present when&nbsp;the events&nbsp;occur&nbsp;and&nbsp;empty&nbsp;when the events&nbsp;end. " We find&nbsp;in this thought&nbsp;a&nbsp;great learning experience&nbsp;that we must always carry&nbsp;with us, who&nbsp;would&nbsp;learn to appreciate&nbsp;the beautiful moments,&nbsp;joys, but&nbsp;returning to our own&nbsp;inner stillness&nbsp;when they&nbsp;end.
When we&nbsp;dear&nbsp;something, or&nbsp;think we have the&nbsp;very&nbsp;possession of someone&nbsp;we love, we suffer&nbsp;when&nbsp;we parted,&nbsp;an&nbsp;example of the manifestation&nbsp;of the&nbsp;attachment&nbsp;in this case is&nbsp;jealousy&nbsp;(fear&nbsp;of losing) everyone who&nbsp;suffers from&nbsp;jealousy&nbsp;automatically suffers&nbsp;a concussion in&nbsp;his inner world, and find themselves&nbsp;always&nbsp;ulcerated&nbsp;and disgusted&nbsp;by unhappy thoughts, opening&nbsp;field&nbsp;to various forms of&nbsp;spiritual attacks of low vibration, to our brothers&nbsp;who are still&nbsp;in&nbsp;lower vibration in the spiritual realm,&nbsp;they know&nbsp;our weaknesses and&nbsp;work&nbsp;on them to&nbsp;get us out of our&nbsp;perfect balance&nbsp;and the desire to&nbsp;keep ourselves grounded in&nbsp;the divine light.
The&nbsp;mind attached&nbsp;to facts,&nbsp;events and people are&nbsp;unable to realize&nbsp;its essence.&nbsp;A healthy mind, balanced&nbsp;and detached&nbsp;is&nbsp;at peace, because they do not&nbsp;suffer&nbsp;at the time of&nbsp;separation,&nbsp;or even&nbsp;advance as with&nbsp;a mind attached.&nbsp;Because it believes that&nbsp;despite the separation&nbsp;occurs, the&nbsp;essence&nbsp;(feeling), doesn’t&nbsp;weaken just&nbsp;turns&nbsp;and takes&nbsp;new forms. The&nbsp;mind attached&nbsp;besides&nbsp;becoming&nbsp;restless&nbsp;and suffering, becomes&nbsp;blocked because it&nbsp;begins a cycle&nbsp;of thoughts&nbsp;that end upholding&nbsp;it and&nbsp;prevents it from&nbsp;seeing&nbsp;their&nbsp;surroundings and&nbsp;assimilate other information, preventing&nbsp;even their&nbsp;mental clarity,&nbsp;making&nbsp;it becomes&nbsp;somehow&nbsp;a prisoner to itself.
There is&nbsp;on the other hand&nbsp;defensive&nbsp;detachment, which&nbsp;would&nbsp;be&nbsp;the individual&nbsp;upon seeing&nbsp;a situation&nbsp;where he comes&nbsp;to care for someone, or&nbsp;something,&nbsp;"closes" with&nbsp;fear&nbsp;to love, to&nbsp;feel&nbsp;trapped in&nbsp;a feeling or&nbsp;idea and&nbsp;become "dependent"&nbsp;of that feeling. These individuals&nbsp;contain their&nbsp;feelings and isolated themselves from&nbsp;social life, with indifference&nbsp;and contempt&nbsp;of their&nbsp;sensory world.&nbsp;People&nbsp;who live this way&nbsp;find themselves&nbsp;insensitive&nbsp;and self-sufficient, but&nbsp;in fact&nbsp;they use&nbsp;the withdrawal of expression,&nbsp;the desire, will and&nbsp;somehow restrict and maim&nbsp;their&nbsp;active lives.
Detachment&nbsp;on the contrary&nbsp;brings&nbsp;inner peace, a joy&nbsp;for the events, whatever they are, for the simple&nbsp;fact that they occurred&nbsp;and have been part&nbsp;of our&nbsp;intimate and personal&nbsp;experience&nbsp;and&nbsp;enriched as individuals.&nbsp;Detachment&nbsp;leads us to develop&nbsp;a&nbsp;broad sense of freedom and&nbsp;confidence in ourselves, and causes&nbsp;us to live&nbsp;without fear,&nbsp;leading to growth&nbsp;in&nbsp;an&nbsp;intimate&nbsp;and&nbsp;wider&nbsp;expansion&nbsp;of consciousness.