The science of detachment

If the monkey doesnt let go of the tree he is stuck to it. If the bird doesnt fly out of the nest he dies in it. The snake that keeps its skins looses its ability to stretch. Hands with gloves cant feel or heal. Hold on to your breath and your life will end. All of these things show us that life depends on letting go and if you do not, you will end up in the ultimate letting go. Slow death or connecting and letting go only you will know which train you chose.

a reply to: ancientthunder

So a hand in marriage is out the question

a reply to: Borisbanger
Depends on your idea of marriage! and also worth taking in to account your partners idea also. Thing is these ideas change! Better to start in the right place at least.

a reply to: ancientthunder

Hands with gloves cant feel or heal

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a reply to: Lysergic
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a reply to: ancientthunder

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originally posted by: ancientthunder

If the monkey doesn't let go of the tree he is stuck to it.
If the bird doesn't fly out of the nest he dies in it.
The snake that keeps its skins loses its ability to stretch.
Hands with gloves can't feel or heal.
Hold on to your breath and your life will end.............

If an adult doesn't let go of his/her past, they are ruled by it.....

Keep adding to the list people, it's a good topic.

a reply to: ancientthunder

Depends on your idea of marriage! and also worth taking in to account your partners idea also. Thing is these ideas change! Better to start in the right place at least.

Your Partner falling sick cant be prescripted and neither can you let go when they are taking you with them

( Just playing devil to your Sage - tell me to fek off : )

Life is about both attachment and detachment. The monkey who does not hold onto a tree has no home, the bird who does not return to the nest gives its babies no chance for life, the snake that isn't attached to skin has no protection, a hand with no glove can be cut and bruised, and the person who does not breathe back in is just as dead as the one who doesn't breathe out.

Ebb and flow, attachment and detachment, life and death, they're all integral parts of existence so to have one without the other is silly in my opinion.

a reply to: Borisbanger
True what you say,it all boils down to the same thing when your in the center.

a reply to: 3NL1GHT3N3D1 One wise person said, [ the problem is not enjoyment, only attachment to enjoyment] Is that possible? Dont know but can try, a little detachment may help the result.

a reply to: ancientthunder
I appreciate what you are getting at with this thread in terms of how we must learn to release our attachments. However to actually be truly free of all that binds and deludes us, we must recognize the Reality in which all appears (and disappears). On that basis we can discover that we are already fundamentally free of what arises in any given moment.

Our fundamental being or awareness itself is not actually bound to anything - that is why at root we never feel we age. Does awareness or consciousness actually age in your experience? Fundamentally, awareness does not age, nor is it attached (or detached) from anything arising.

Awareness simply is. Awareness is not any thing arising, yet is not separate from any of it. A paradox indeed.

a reply to: ancientthunder

I liked the poem, ancient thunder. Well done.

But the terms attachment and detachment describe no process, method, nor behavior in humankind. Hence, "letting go" is only ever a metaphor, and a monkey, only ever an analogy.

Consequently, life does not depend on letting go.

a reply to: bb23108
Great reply and very helpful, yes I agree with that view. That is the ultimate view, on other levels there are other views, more mundane, but very real to those who perceive them. We all are at some point of discovery with regard to the nature of consciousness and our self.

a reply to: LesMisanthrope
Scientificly you are spot on, I often notice that you are.

Consequently, life does not depend on letting go.

Yes, this is so true and you are so right. Life depends on nothing in particular and everything at the same time,would have been much more precise. On the other hand, what I meant was a life most definitely depends on letting go, specially during certain important moments, events. Just like our friend in this video.