--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity <no_re...@...> wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <drpetersutphen@> wrote: > > > > Let me jump into this attachment discussion. > > > > I'd like to argue that you don't know what attachment is until > > you experience pure consciousness while the mind functions. Any > > attempt to become unattached through the mind is pure > > mood-making/manipulation which is worthless. > > I don't know that I agree. I think that detachment can occur > through maturity and experience, through living in accordance > with your values. Even if this had nothing to do with pure > consciousness, I disagree that it is irrelevant mood making or > is worthless. It is functioning in a self actualized way, with > empathy and at your best. This is worthwhile, whatever the label.
I suppose an affectation of non-attachment may have some relative value, but it reminds me of the people I saw on the Oprah message boards, trying to imitate Eckhart Tolle being present to what is and thinking that is what it is to be awakened. For all its relative value, it's still not freedom.
