--- In [email protected], Alex Bunard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Carlos, > > When Buddhist practitioners talk about attachment, it > only refers to the attachment to self. There is an > erroneous idea of a separate personhood, separate > individual. We all tend to get attached to that idea. > > Getting rid of the attachments means strictly getting > rid of the idea that there is a separate personhood, a > separate special individual who is 'forced' to undergo > various travails and calamities in life. > > Working on getting rid of the so-called 'outer' > attachments (i.e. attachment to drugs, to booze, to > food, to sex, to money, to any other 'other' substance > and/or service), is completely wrongheaded, according > to the Buddhist teaching. It is easy to negate the > world, to see through the delusion of the world. But, > that's not our practice. Our practice is to get rid of > ourselves. Negate the self, the separate individual, > the ego. Tell it to take a hike, to buzz off. > > Once you manage to do that, so called outside things > and events will not pose any problem for you. > > Alex > > --- carlos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all,I am new to the group and I was off the > > groups for a few days > > tanks to yahoo not recognizing my email address , it > > looks fine now. > > I need some help in recognizing the obvious (it > > looks very much that > > way) ,it is very easy to talk about the attachments > > to things and > > places > > when is not personal,but I have a personal > > attachment to destroy and > > it looks as if I need to test the situation to prove > > that it is OK > > to proceed because it looks so senseless to do so. > > It is a small business that do not produce any > > money. > > I would appreciate any opinion or direction to find > > a teaching that > > is not to say that any attachment is cause of > > suffering ( I know > > that it is true) > > It looks as if I have to destroy home. > > > > Metta > > Carlos
As I understand one create the concept of I, me and mine (ego) as a separated entity because it feels that way, ego makes its identity by attaching to things,other concepts and whatever comes into contact with the intellect, so working towards the dettachment of de elements of is identity (buddhist practice) one is actually working towards the disolution of self (ego) because ego "is" that identity,as I understand to dettach from these elements of identity is very hard that is why we sit in meditation, when one have an spiritual experience is because it was already ripe, (karma) and because something done like finding one owns faults and suffering because one can't get rid of them or a lot of meditation disolving comcepts. In my case with respect to the attachment to the shop ,meaning, "I am it" is very strong and this ego looks as if it wants a total explanation as why I am not going to be carlos the man in the shop anymore. or I am a coward that can not trow everything away, but when I am at the shop it realy feels as if it is home. Metta Carlos ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Give hope to a child. Helping a needy child is easier than you think. Click here to meet someone who needs your help. http://us.click.yahoo.com/hq3f6C/iJlJAA/i1hLAA/S27xlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Noble Eightfold Path: Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration, Right Livelihood Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZenForum/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
