Attachment, Mindfulness, and Letting-Go

why am I howling

at the harvest moon and the

fading of the light?

A major insight of East Indian spirituality is that attachment causes suffering. This is stressed in the Upanishads, the Yoga Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita, and Buddhism.

Through mindfulness meditation, we watch our minds create suffering for ourselves and others by constantly demanding that the world be a certain way. If reality does not comply with our agenda, our egoic minds pitch a fit!

Watching this absurd movie again and again and again wears out the film. Our attachments weaken. Craving and aversion lose their power to stir up clouds of suffering. As the sky of mind clears, we begin to experience our true nature: Being, Consciousness, and Bliss (Satchitananda). Loving ourselves and others gradually becomes easy and natural.

Every time we let go of an attachment, we experience a mini-death. This prepares for the Ultimate Letting Go.