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Attachment causes Suffering
Cleaning up my mess on behalf of Gaia
Dear Gaia,
after loads of replies to my last article (choosing death) I realized, how many people go through the sufferings of loss regularly. But why? There were even people worried about me because they understood my letter as if I myself was in danger to give up on life. And again, but why?
Did they interpret and identify their own feelings and thoughts in my writings? And if so, did it create danger in bringing up the glimpse of their own suffering within them and made them want to project those upon me? Again, why would they?
Is it weakness? Is it fear? Is it just easier to let someone else deal with our own mess? Is our own mess already a too huge pile of things, stories and emotions that there is no place left for anything else? And if so, are we aware of it?
I decided to ask those questions to myself. What would I read if I read my own writing? What about my own mess? Was it time to tidy myself up a little deeper than I believed that it was needed before? What pile of things, stories and emotions had I accumulated? What was I attached to?
What was I attached to? That was the first question I decided to chew on. I thought about the Buddhist concept of Non-Attachment and smiled to myself.
