Is Detachment key to Liberation

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Shanti Madathil Nair and thank you,

 

As Eastern Traditional Philosophy indicates, we should study

the subject rather than the object. The Western habitual mindframe on

the other hand

is that of studying the object (i.e. science, analysis, research), we

are subject, we study object.

 

Hence, for those of us who are Westeners, maybe you are not, what may

arise is a delusion of detachment,

i.e., due to our minds' historical and prevailing habit of studying the

object, we can easily fall

into believing that the image (object) of detachment, projected by our

mind, is indeed detachment.

Our habitual observation point is within the thinking-projecting mind,

not outside of it.

We have a reduced if not inexistent-underdevelopped ability to

study-observe from afar

the subject and its activity. This modality is part of our collcetive

unconscious,

and in turn we are a part of it.

 

Where is the location of this observation lookout? We do not know. How

to establish it?

 

The Sages teach that awareness (which is not the reasoning-dualistic

mind, nor is the emotional

consciousness) awareness that is, has its establishment in a realm

beyond the psichological

subject-object transient one, and that until that realm unveils in us,

and unless it does,

we do not have the realization-awareness of detachment, we simply talk

about it, think of it,

without 'knowing' what it is nor what it is like.

 

When we talk of detaching from family, work, etc., we automatically tend

to talk-think

about psichological detachment, precisely the one that involves

attraction-repulsion,

with the consequent tendency and conlclusion that detachment entails an

action of "leaving the scene",

i.e. repulsion, duality.

 

You talk about «...not a far away destination to reach...». Certainly

far away is not, but easily established

and reached it is not either, I think (sic!).

Delusion is the trap, and we are masters at delusion.We have been

trained to 'think', we 'think' detachment,

and therefore we are back to the subject that deals with a conceptual

object. In this case the object is,

our image-concept of detachment.

 

To begin and make room for this novel, never yet known, 'not far away

destination' realm, our inner

temple (do we really know this is not an emotional-sentimental place,

but something truly

yet unknown, which is so underdevelopped as presence that in effect it

is like as it did not exist?),

what the Teachers teach is a constant attention to the unceasing

activity of our body and mind, in order to attain

the establishment of the constant observer, the seat of

awareness-detachment.

 

To make room for it, the Masters theach that we should verify and

certify to ourselves this never yet known realm,

this silent consciousness by way of neti-neti, which is discernment of

the subject-object, of the emotional-conceptual,

of the kama-manas and this constant observer.

 

This is the work at hand.

 

And, the Teachers teach that, at this point,

.....Carlo better go back and apply himself to the work at hand !!

 

 

Shanti,

 

Carlo Frua

 

 

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