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Summary

The article discusses the origins of emotional attachment and the importance of practicing non-attachment to foster emotional resilience and personal growth.

Abstract

The article "How do We get attached to someone??" explores the concept of attachment, attributing it to habitual tendencies from the past. It suggests that attachment often stems from holding onto insignificant things, which then influences our relationships. The author advocates for practicing non-attachment starting with trivial items and gradually extending to more significant aspects of life, such as relationships. This practice is said to free individuals from negative emotions like anger and jealousy, and to expand one's mind, allowing for forgiveness and transformation. The article concludes by recommending the book "All About Love: New Visions" by bell hooks for further reading on love and relationships.

Opinions

  • Emotional attachment is seen as a habit formed by clinging to small, meaningless things.
  • Practicing non-attachment is beneficial and should begin with objects of little importance before progressing to more meaningful relationships.
  • Non-attachment is presented as a method to release oneself from a range of negative emotions, including ignorance, greed, and selfishness.
  • The article posits that non-attachment can broaden one's perspective, making challenges like heartbreak seem less overwhelming.
  • The transformative effect of non-attachment is described as something that cannot be fully explained but is experienced as a natural occurrence.
  • The author encourages readers to engage with additional resources, such as a book by bell hooks, to deepen their understanding of love and relationships.

How do We get attached to someone??

Where does that sense of attachment come from? Habits from the past, it is called habitual tendencies.

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So we have this habit, we’ve built up this habit of getting attached to small, small things, not letting go of meaningless things like our tone shirt or our tone socks. You understand? So it keeps building up on that and it carries into our relationship and beyond.

So it’s good to start practicing your non-detachment with things that don’t mean that much to you, things that you can dispose of and slowly start bringing into more meaningful things like your relationships and humans that you interact with.

It releases you from negative emotions such as attachment, anger, jealousy, ignorance, greed, selfishness and so on. Also from hell, hungry ghost, animal kingdom, humans, God. So it has so many significance.

But ultimately, it expands your mind instead of feeling contracted and living within that small box because everything certainly seems so small, so shrunken when your heart breaks or when you’re going through a hardship. So it kind of breaks the locks of that small box.

Let’s light in and just expand our mind. And then we find the space for forgiveness and to let go. It’s transformative. You cannot explain how it happens, why it happens. It just happens.

Anyway, if you enjoyed this article and want to know about love and relationship…plz consider this book All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks.

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