Hummus was going to do a topic on this, but she didn't because I thought there was no need. But now I'm selfish for thinking so, and I'm sure many people may benefit from it.
My point of this blog is WHY do we get attached?
I don't mean getting attached to people, but in terms of the more materialistic stuff, why is it so hard to let go?
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I read this article a while back about how we are blinkered to reality and we need to detach ourselves from the world if we don't want to suffer.
You will always be tested on the thing that you are most attached to, and that attachment will become the biggest source of pain for you UNLESS you learn to control it.
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There's a bit more to the above, but I just don't get why its so natural. Is it just the way we're meant to function? What if we don't get attached?
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Attachments lead to fear of loss, leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed that is.
you must learn to let go of all you fear to lose
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theres just Allah we can truly attach ourselves totallty and fully. and i find that extremely comforting.
the other people/stuff well..weve got to be ready to let it go at any time. its a lifetime work.
Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?
I don't really know WHY, that's something i ask too. I don't even know HOW attached i am to non-human things either. Maybe not so much *i think*.
There's some things i can't live without but i see them as basic necessities anyway. What is there to get attached to that doesn't involve a person/people?
Wealth is the main thing i can think of, and i don't feel attached to that either probably because i have no control of the money that enters and exists the house.
I suppose we're being tested on how we manage to cope with these temporary attachments whatever they may be.
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'You live this life. If you live this life for this life, it is a still motion. If you live this life for the next life, it is a progressing motion'.
You're really really attached to human beings. That's something you can't argue with.
Reading the comments made me think about the meaning of attachments..
They don't 'exist'. Attachments that cause you pain/suffering are FALSE attachments. A wake-up-call.
People get attached because they place their hope in materialistic goods. They depend upon the creation to fulfil their every need and loss. Being faithful to this world will ultimately lead to pain, because its just an illusion.
Yeah, you have to learn to not get attached throughout life and you learn as you go along. So you'll be expected to get tested on these sort of stuff, and the outcome will depend on whether or not the situation was a blessing or punishment.
Precisely. I HAVE to admit that and i can't deny it at all.
Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?
Nothing was ever going to be perfect and you can't ever expect it to be anyway. The fact that i have this mind makes me think that getting attached to people isn't ugly or bad, in the way that some people make it out to be.
There is SO much good that can come out of being attached, like being in good company, learning the right charateristics, being reminded when you're doing wrong things and just having someone to tell you off once in a while. I just prefer to look at the goodness and POSITIVE side of it all, and leave behind the negative aspects and getting-hurt side to it.
Totally depends on what angle you want to take it from.
But you can't ignore reality.
There will be a time where you will get hurt, and when you do it'll hurt more, because you were so dismissive about it in the first place.
I've just realized how intimidating that may have sounded.. o.O