Memory Attachment

Understanding the attachment of memory is very important in breaking the chains of suffering because it’s the attachment to “I“ that wants to only remember what’s pleasurable…

The attachment of how we remember things and constantly bringing them into the present is simply that, an attachment. Although this happens without it being realized, when it is realized it changes the way existence is viewed. The memory of how things truly are gets distorted in a way because they’re viewed through the conditioning in place; conditioning that mostly attaches to constantly seeking pleasure. Think of this, when someone dies no one gets up and says the person was a SOB. What’s usually said borders on making the individual a saint regardless if when alive the person was a SOB. This is the memory attachment in place and until it’s realized life is spent constantly seeking pleasurable memories; the mind doesn’t like unpleasant memories so it attaches to anything it remembers as pleasurable. This is part of the survival instinct ingrained in us. Those who remember painful events also use them to find something pleasurable, even if to just push them away, hence this is also why one attaches to the outside for comfort.

Nobody attaches to anything for any other reason but to provide comfort, in this comfort seeking there’s so much unconscious suffering. Comfort pleasure, pleasure comfort, these two go hand in hand and until this is understood they’ll continue to cause unconscious suffering. Understanding the attachment of memory is very important in breaking the chains of bondage because it’s the attachment to “I“ that makes one only remember what’s pleasurable. Even to the point of its own destruction “I” attaches to pleasure, just look in any rehab or detox. Every drug or drink of alcohol taken had the attachment of pleasure associated with it or it wouldn’t have be taken. Understanding this isn’t limited to just those things, this goes for anything that’s reached for. The mind defaults to what’s familiar and it attaches to anything seen as pleasure. Until this is realized you will continue to attach the memory that makes everyone a saint; at least that’s what’s said when they die…