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Attachment

Posted on by philipdodson

We are attached to our views and the mind will want to defend them, as our fragile ego is at stake, it will defend them at all costs, in some cases, people die protecting what they believe to be right.

That is not just our opinions on so-called ‘important issues’, it will be our opinion on anything and everything, we will protect it tooth and nail.

If we allow ourselves to be free from these attachments, we can still voice our opinions, however, without it being a matter of life or death to defend them against opposite views. We can put them forward without a need to defend them, as we accept our self-worth is never derived from whether we are right or not, or how much we defend that position either.

Imagine how much fewer arguments, violence, wars and so on we’d have, if, we removed the ‘violence’ from, defence of, and attachment, to our views.

Right or wrong is a matter of our ego and the level of our attachment to it. Peace comes from acceptance of all views and the letting go of our position of righteousness.

Reactions to events

Posted on by philipdodson

How much of our reactions are based on conditioning and how we want to appear to others? How much of what we say publically is to fit-in?

It must be as we are selective as a society about what seems to matter.

We would protect a 200-year-old building, yet trees of that age can be chopped down every day. Tragedies in some countries matter and in others they don’t. Terrorist if from one background, freedom fighter or plain crazy ‘whack-job’ from another. A terrible shooting in one country leads to prayers and changing social media profile pictures to that country’s flag, if it happens in the less important country, it isn’t even reported. A person has offered 100M Euros to repair a church but there are poor and starving people on the streets.

It seems we have a ‘how do I appear good in front of others’ filter or a ‘from the right background/country/race’ filter on what matters in the world.

We are all humans, we all matter, there is no life more important than another, we are the same. Also, what others think about us is not relevant, we can choose to react how we wish to, without the need to feel ostracised or feeling we have to fit.

Things are not black or white, with or against, yes or no. There are no right or wrong, it is a personal opinion.