The Detachment

Hello everybody!

This week we'll talk about detachment. But what would be the detachment? According to the dictionary detachment is indifference, disaffection, disenchantment, and lack of attachment. Is that right?

In parts, yes, detachment would in reality be just the lack of attachment, detachment does not mean it at any time disinterest, dislike or disenchantment (which are just "synonyms"), detachment understood realize the impermanence of things that pass by our lives, but at the same time he understands it that does not diminish their love or affection, much less act with indifference.

People attached people become restless and suffering people, as if lost in the past (recent or long) and brings into the present, in an attempt to revive their memories, so the attachment would be the memory of the "pain" or "pleasure" past behind, every pain or sorrow hide an attachment.

The people attached attaches to mental crystallizations and ends up becoming a prisoner of his own memories, bringing into his inner world the suffer and anxiety. As a Buddhist thought: "When the wind comes and swings bamboo, bamboo does not save the sound after the wind has passed. When the geese cross the lake, the lake does not keep their reflections after they are gone. Likewise, the minds of enlightened people are present when the events occur and empty when the events end. " We find in this thought a great learning experience that we must always carry with us, who would learn to appreciate the beautiful moments, joys, but returning to our own inner stillness when they end.

When we dear something, or think we have the very possession of someone we love, we suffer when we parted, an example of the manifestation of the attachment in this case is jealousy (fear of losing) everyone who suffers from jealousy automatically suffers a concussion in his inner world, and find themselves always ulcerated and disgusted by unhappy thoughts, opening field to various forms of spiritual attacks of low vibration, to our brothers who are still in lower vibration in the spiritual realm, they know our weaknesses and work on them to get us out of our perfect balance and the desire to keep ourselves grounded in the divine light.

The mind attached to facts, events and people are unable to realize its essence. A healthy mind, balanced and detached is at peace, because they do not suffer at the time of separation, or even advance as with a mind attached. Because it believes that despite the separation occurs, the essence (feeling), doesn’t weaken just turns and takes new forms. The mind attached besides becoming restless and suffering, becomes blocked because it begins a cycle of thoughts that end upholding it and prevents it from seeing their surroundings and assimilate other information, preventing even their mental clarity, making it becomes somehow a prisoner to itself.

There is on the other hand defensive detachment, which would be the individual upon seeing a situation where he comes to care for someone, or something, "closes" with fear to love, to feel trapped in a feeling or idea and become "dependent" of that feeling. These individuals contain their feelings and isolated themselves from social life, with indifference and contempt of their sensory world. People who live this way find themselves insensitive and self-sufficient, but in fact they use the withdrawal of expression, the desire, will and somehow restrict and maim their active lives.

Detachment on the contrary brings inner peace, a joy for the events, whatever they are, for the simple fact that they occurred and have been part of our intimate and personal experience and enriched as individuals. Detachment leads us to develop a broad sense of freedom and confidence in ourselves, and causes us to live without fear, leading to growth in an intimate and wider expansion of consciousness.