--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> --- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>
> > I could gain by loosening my attachment to attachment? 
> 
> I think so.

<snip>
> What I was thinking of when I first wrote that was the
> attachment we all have to *formula*.

Such as, "being attached to attachment"?

  We'd all like to
> believe that there is something we can *do* -- a tech-
> nique, a mantra, some behavior we perform, some
> behavior we give up -- that could be the "trick" that
> allows realization of enlightenment to happen.

Such as, "loosening attachment to attachment"?
 
> I think it's the attachment to there being some "trick"
> or "something else" that "has to happen" before we 
> realize our enlightenment that seems to prevent the
> realization of enlightenment.

Oh, so it's *not* a matter of loosening attachment
to attachment.

> Not much of an explanation, but I'm on the last few
> chapters of the new Harry Potter book, and that's 
> much more important than spouting theory about
> enlightenment...  :-)

But not more important than spouting a few formulas
about attachment, it seems.






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