Attachement

We often attach ourselves to things, to people, to places: it’s not like we can't resist but it is a human tendency. But an attachment is an odd companion. It treats this something as though it is a part of your body; inseparable, despite the fact that it is not a part of yourself.

We become so hurt by losing it. What we don't realize is that possession is merely a comfortable illusion we create for ourselves because we want a thing to exist as if it were a part of us when it can physically never exist that way. They are just the manifestation of materialistic desire.

Only an idea of them we believed in exist and ideas are as much a part of us as our own voice or the words we utter. They are a interpretation of the world around created by our mind. We not only have them, we become  them. They as much possess us as we do them and ideas themselves are extremely delicate, inherently incomprehensible wandering through our senses and actions.

Our minds are constantly outside, never fully attached to the present moment, always moving to the past, and building Utopian plans for the future . Creating fantasies within the mind, and using those fantasies to interpret the external world. It wonder if there is any existence of the present moment

Can we free ourselves from attachments? Can we free ourselves from our pasts and fantastic futures to find the present moment? Can we will something like that to happen?

Essentially where there is a will there is a way. We will something and it occurs. But what is will?

Cause and effect. Will is the cause and the effect is whatever we will to happen. But we often consider will to be the end cause;But it too had causes to bring about the act of willing. We often forget this.

Our will is created by forces outside our conscious experience. The real perception of willing is of an illusion. We are not the ultimate cause in our act of willing. If we understand this, then what do we become?

 How does a person define himself? Are we merely what we perceive as ourselves? Certainly not. We have already shown that will is an illusionary outlook of something more. So we too are something more than we think we are.

Are we then a collection of cells to form a body and a collection of experiences and understandings to form a mind? What is it that wills? Is it our cells? Is it reality bent into an interpretaion by our minds? A thought is merely a way we take things, an experience (often personal one). It is not we who does the thinking, we are merely experiencing an aspect on the thought; a thought being a collection of actions outside our understanding.

We are not merely what we think to be ourselves. In fact what we perceive to be ourselves is but a small view of something much more, it is illusionary and masks the true nature of existence. We must therefore redefine our understanding of ourselves.