Surface Attachments

When you can only see and attach to what’s on the surface, the root of all suffering follows. It’s in letting go of surface attachments that you see there are many parts to the whole; this reveals the emptiness of all things…

When you’re attached to the surface level of existence, life becomes thought based and although we all experience life in the human form, it’s why it’s seen differently by everyone. Except by those who don’t see it through thought, this state is of emptiness which doesn’t need thoughts, yet existence still is. Everything is a constellation of parts that make up the whole, so nothing is truly what a thought makes it out to be because it’s only seen and categorized as the whole. When you look at a tree and attach the thought “tree” the surface parts, the trunk, limbs, branches, and leaves meld into one and the true nature of the tree is lost. If you can see this with the tree, you can see it with everything, including yourself. Without the attached thought of you where is the you and that’s just the surface you I’m asking about, most don’t even think about the parts of you on the inside.

There is much freedom in seeing this because it allows for the emptiness of all things to be revealed. When you see there’s nothing to attach to no matter what, you’re free. You attach to something that keeps track of time; the thought of a watch. There are so many parts to a watch, but which part is truly the watch. Surface attachments will keep you marred in ignorance because they will block you out from seeing the true nature of emptiness in all things, you will only see the whole. When this happens you can only see and attach to what’s on the surface and therein lies the root to all suffering. It’s in letting go of surface attachments that will allow you to see there are many parts to the whole which when seen reveals the emptiness of all things…