Attachment and Detachment
The dialogue on the group about attachment and detachment got some insightful answers….following conversation with Meena ji will bring further clarity to our views about detachment. We often seek answers thinking about detachment and find ourselves getting half-baked answers. One has to first understand the reason for attachment only then we can move on to detachment. One goes through life forming various relationships…some near and dear. This triggers expectations creating a set pattern of behaviors, like a mother is expected to behave in a certain way or a child is expected to have a set pattern of behavior etc… this causes everyone to fall in a certain category of expectations from each other. And when this does not happen one feels let down, burdened, sad and stuck…one starts holding others accountable for not meeting the set expectations of that relationship. Or in another scenario, a set measure or a scale…