Monday, October 29, 2007

The root of attachments: Attachments are not the cause but the result of our pain.

The root of all of our pain is not our attachments. Our attachments are a symptom of the root of our pain. The root of our pain is not knowing that we are love. When we don’t love ourselves, we attach ourselves to entities to create an illusion of being love. When we do not know that we are love, we ask everything around us to tell us that we are love. And then we have attached our hearts and our souls to something that has nothing to do with us, is on its own ride. This is a dangerous thing to do, because when it goes up, you go up, and when it goes down, you go down, and when it dies, you die too. So it may appear that the attachments are the cause of your pain, because it is such a poor way to manage your deeper pain of not feeling loveable. So don’t cut your attachments, for that is harsh, almost cruel to yourself. It is akin to yelling at a child who is crying to stop crying. The way out is to feel your attachments, fully embody your attachments, and see through to their roots. And begin to see the child who is crying down there on the other end of your attachments, and begin to love that child.

2 comments:

acheeseman said...

This is a brilliant thought. I'd always thought of attachments as being the cause of pain. Now I can focus on something other than attachment, which has always seemed abstract anyway, and get back to looking at the root cause.

Cosmo Heartbear said...

Yes! And thank you. That is such a good way to put it: attachments are abstractions of the root cause. And yes, understanding this gives us a path for healing. And bless you for healing yourself, for it is the most sacred work: when you heal yourself, and truly know the love that you are, it will spread to those around you, then to your community, and beyond, and the whole world begins to heal.