Attachment And Non-Attachment

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Attachment And Non-Attachment

 

We must learn how to live our lives to facilitate the

process of liberation. We should always accept life as

a challenge and not be disappointed by anything, for

life is simply a vehicle for us. Sooner or later we

will find God or truth within ourselves. We will

realise that we do not exist as individual entities.

It is only our ignorance that makes us think that we

exist apart from the whole. We need to replace manhood

by God-hood, and for this we must become real human

beings. We need to realise that we are ancient

travellers in this world and that our purpose is to

attain perfection.

 

In the West, there is a widespread fear of losing the

ego or personality. Through meditation we find that we

can expand the ego, not lose it. We must become

large-hearted. We must take in more and more of our

fellow beings and the rest of the world rather than

identify with the individual, isolated self. We must

think of ourselves as travellers temporarily passing

through life in this world. We must realise that we

are only using this body, these experiences, these

material objects temporarily on loan. They are not

ours. We are borrowing them. Sooner or later we will

leave them behind. There is nothing to fear; our

purpose is not to possess these things but to use them

in order to transcend them. This is the truth, which

goes beyond the law. We must learn that our actions

are not our personal possessions. We need not be

attached to them.

 

It is of utmost importance to understand the principle

of detachment in order to become free from the fruits

of our actions. Detachment, or better, non-attachment,

does not mean non-enjoyment. Normally when we perform

an action we are not free from the fruits of that

action. For example, when we pray we usually ask for

something. This is known as man-centered prayer in

which demands are made. Even though we are praying

this is not a liberating act for we are attached to

the fruits of our prayer. There is another kind of

prayer called God-centered which is for the purpose of

enlightenment. Examples are " Lord, help me in

enlightening myself, " Or " Help me to attain freedom. "

However, even in these cases, to consider God outside

of ourselves does not help us. It is more important to

think that God is within us so that we see ourselves

as an instrument, a son, and a servant of the Beloved,

of God. In this way we may approach a prayer as an act

of non-attachment.

 

 

 

 

 

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