MKadwa
December 22nd, 2006, 01:15 PM
It takes the little quite thinking some insight and not a lot of brains to realise that attachment
is needed one of the root cause of sorrow. The logic is pretty simple ; attachment leads to the possession
and possession in turn to suffering when that which is possessed is no longer there. Neverthless, it's important to differentiate between all the various things that one possesses.
Loosing something of great importance like a passposrt for instance, doesn't cause suffering but imense irritation and may be some amount of anger because ultimately there is no attachment to a passort, merely an operational needfir it.
Moreover the documents can eventually be replaced by another which functions exactly like the one which has been lost. Losing Montblanc MeisterStUck fountain pen on the other hand, can be a source of sometimes considerable sorrow.
One may have got attached to its fine fine looks and finish, the immaculate ergonomic grip, caligrapic quality of writing simply the value of possessing one. But even so, the sorrow is at best temporary because price or availability now with standing, it can be replaced by another fine writing master piece, no way different from origional down to the gold embossed initials.
But what ifthe pen is given as a token of love by a betrothed? Or what if the pen was an engagemnt or wedding ring?. The attachment in that case would have been of a much higher order and its loss would result in deeper grief almost at times akin to suffering.
However the greatest probelm arising from attachment is when the loved one itself is lost. That loss approaching suffering at its greatest.
Newspaper remembrance column tells it all when they call ; an irreplaceable loss; one for which theer can be no subsitute ever there can be no subsitute ever, no matter how long person looks or how far. But hold on is that in fact actually and always so? Numerous people find
love again, millions develop other meaningful relationship which are not less awesome then the initial
or earlier one. Sure they suffer when they move on but their suffering diminishes when they do so.
It's not a trick of denial and neither it is a defence mechanism. It's the WAY.
is needed one of the root cause of sorrow. The logic is pretty simple ; attachment leads to the possession
and possession in turn to suffering when that which is possessed is no longer there. Neverthless, it's important to differentiate between all the various things that one possesses.
Loosing something of great importance like a passposrt for instance, doesn't cause suffering but imense irritation and may be some amount of anger because ultimately there is no attachment to a passort, merely an operational needfir it.
Moreover the documents can eventually be replaced by another which functions exactly like the one which has been lost. Losing Montblanc MeisterStUck fountain pen on the other hand, can be a source of sometimes considerable sorrow.
One may have got attached to its fine fine looks and finish, the immaculate ergonomic grip, caligrapic quality of writing simply the value of possessing one. But even so, the sorrow is at best temporary because price or availability now with standing, it can be replaced by another fine writing master piece, no way different from origional down to the gold embossed initials.
But what ifthe pen is given as a token of love by a betrothed? Or what if the pen was an engagemnt or wedding ring?. The attachment in that case would have been of a much higher order and its loss would result in deeper grief almost at times akin to suffering.
However the greatest probelm arising from attachment is when the loved one itself is lost. That loss approaching suffering at its greatest.
Newspaper remembrance column tells it all when they call ; an irreplaceable loss; one for which theer can be no subsitute ever there can be no subsitute ever, no matter how long person looks or how far. But hold on is that in fact actually and always so? Numerous people find
love again, millions develop other meaningful relationship which are not less awesome then the initial
or earlier one. Sure they suffer when they move on but their suffering diminishes when they do so.
It's not a trick of denial and neither it is a defence mechanism. It's the WAY.