Living simply is not as easy as it sounds for many of us because we like our attachments.  We have attachments to things, to people, to our ideas and thoughts.  It is difficult to separate from these attachments because we often use them to define who we are, what we like and dislike, and how we live.

I can’t say that attachments have their place because I have only seen the negative impact of attachments. I describe attachment as a cloying type of dependency that is not in our best interest and does not help us reach our “best and highest good.” Continue reading →

This discussion has no particular end.  It is a series of random thoughts about relationships and things.

Attachments have become a way of relating to the world.  They carry referential preferences to past emotions that tie us in a balanced or unbalanced way to ideas, to things and to circumstances.

The buddhists way is to detach and to accept the impermanence in things.  It is said, that when we do this, we eliminate suffering.  But how does that work exactly? Continue reading →