We tend to have a lot of attachments, some we’re aware of and others we’re not. But there’s one attachment that will ultimately help with all other attachments.
What Do We Get Attached To?
We often get attached to things, people, emotions, and states of being without even realizing it. When you’re so attached to something, you’ll do whatever it takes to hold on tighter to it. To not lose it.
If someone tries to take it away, we just grip harder. We really, really hold on to it. And we can’t see ourselves without it or having it being part of our life or what we believe our life is, who we are.
Attachments come and go – new cars, new house, and really anything like that which is new and shiny. You get this emotion, this feeling of it’s shiny new, it’s exciting and after a while, it fades. It quickly fades.
Then what? We’re on the search for something new.
We need to find something to replace what we’ve lost because it feels like something is missing now. So, we continue on and we go on the search for something new to attach to. when we find something, we pull it into our little universe like, I like that, I want that, and I’ll make use of it when I need it.
And that always leads to more suffering(unsatisfactoriness).
If there’s only one thing that I can share with you about attachments. It is that the attachment to self is the most important one to see through.
