ATTACHMENT AND FEAR

Attachments to worldly desires are like an ocean filled with dark waves: they come over you when you least expect them, and keep you from feeling love. The dark waves are composed of anger, greed, and all kinds of fear. Yesterday’s attachments stick to today’s fear. Fear increases and becomes greater.

There are times when you become attached to your fears. It is if they have been around forever and you are afraid to let them go. You can see your attachments when your mind is stilled. Attachments divide you from the truth of your own heart as well as the truth from others. Where there is attachment, there is always fear and pain. The mind always becomes agitated when attachment is involved.

When you become attached to objects or people who bring negativity or waste into your life, your life is based on illusion. All illusions come from one form of attachment or another. Negativity is a form of attachment. You become very attached to your habits due to negativity. Attachment can bring on anger and discontent. When you become aware, you can see these attachments begin to melt away. A bad habit can quickly change in a heartbeat with awareness.

Attachment is called the ego’s closet. You live in this space and are afraid to let yourself be free. You know this dark space, and the ego tells you to be terrified. Attachment is the same as living in deep terror and being unable to give up even the smallest thing in life. Say to yourself, “Whatever mistakes I made in life, I resolve to avoid repeating them in the future by giving myself to the welfare of others.”

Detachment brings you to the heart. Detachments come from meditations on the heart of awareness. It is imperative to understand that detachment is not non-caring! There is no greater love than when you love in a detached way; detachment is unconditional love. The freedom of detachment comes to the seeker in the form of liberation. Attachment to God is no attachment at all.

Ma Jaya

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