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Recognizing the Disadvantages of Attachment
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Original in Spanish, translation by Luis Prada.
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Think of a subject and examine the following points:
1. Which
are the persons, objects, goods, circumstances, habits, likings, ideas, etc.,
for which you feel attachment?
2. Think of a person, object or good, ask yourself: "Does it really have all the
qualities that I have imputed or attributed to it?"
3. Do you consider that that person or object will always be there, without
change, and permanently will produce you happiness? Think that you
change physical and mentally and that also others suffer the same changes; so
don't you have false and unreal expectations of the persons, circumstances or
things?
4. Reflect on this: How the attachment make you act? For instance: Do you
walk over your ethic principles to obtain that to which you are attached to?
Do you fall into destructive relationships to obtain the object of attachment or
in perturbating conducts that induce you to commit one of the ten destructive
actions?
Conclusion:
Think that attachment behaves as a thief that destroys your tranquility and robs you of your happiness, for which you should be determined to eliminate it from your life.
Transforming the Attachment
Think of a subject of attachment and examine it through the following points:
1. If you
achieve obtaining the object, person, social position, recognition, etc., you
desire, will it bring you lasting happiness or satisfaction?, what new problems
would you have for taking care of or conserving them? Consider this, does the
attachment to that person or thing have the capacity to give you lasting
happiness?
2. If you separate yourself from that attachment, would it be the worst that may
happen to you? Are there possibilities it occur what you thought about it? What
are the resources, internal or of the community, that can help you to solve or
modify the situation?
3. Now, remember the persons, objects, circumstances, of which you have
separated from and be happy for the time you spent together. Recognize
that those days already passed and that the future will be different.
4. Imagine that you give away the person or thing that was the object of your
attachment to somebody and that this one receive them with happiness.
Conclusion:
Feel the sentiment of freedom, balance and altruism that saturates you and allows you to enjoy other persons without attachment.
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