Attachment to form creates a prison that blocks love from being the guiding energy of daily living. And although you may be alive, to be without love is to be without life…
As attachments are formed so is a self created prison formed. How controlling this is determines the degree that your attachments have a hold on you; make no mistake, attachment is attachment regardless of what it is. Alcohol or drugs are only different than soda because of their devastating consequences; no matter what’s attached to it keeps you in prison. Something much more subtle than some substance or object is the attachment to your own mind; this is the real prison.
A substance or object can hold you in captivity, but it’s the mind that makes you attach to something. Without the mind telling you something is needed, attachment would be non existent. The subtleness of attachment is literally mind boggling. Take an alarm clock as an example, as soon as the alarm rings, if the snooze button is hit instantly the mind wants the moment to be in some other way. If this mind set isn’t altered to bring about awareness of this, it’s off to the races of being controlled by a mind that’s attached to satisfying form.
This takes on many forms: talking about others, eating habits, pouting or sulking, social status, being miserly (cheap), trying to control situations and people, judging, lust, greed, envy, self righteousness, false pride, and the list goes on, but what all these have in common is they are all external solutions of the Conditioned Mind to fix an internal problem of lack. Until something is done to allow the mind to settle, this will probably go on til the day you die. If this happens you‘ll see how most of your life was never truly experienced in the way that it could have been. This may not seem as devastating as say using alcohol or drugs, but it is because either way life is experienced from a formed attachment and is never truly lived…
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