DETACHMENT

Attachment has to do with being bound to something, physical or psychologically, literally or figuratively. This “something” can be a person, a place, or a thing. It can be a sense of who we think we are or would like to be---the self-image. We can be overly attached to a belief system, to the point that we block out all new truths. We can be overly attached to a country or race, to the point that analysis is habitually distorted by the layered accumulation of our own historical perspective. It seems, in fact and clearly, that attachment is the norm, and that the maturation process is going through a continued series of mini-detachments, and that supreme detachment is supremely rare.

Why detach?

Attachment leads to some kind of suffering when the attachment brings about a non-fluidic, non-growing, static state. Attachment is related to form [tangible and subtle] whereas detachment is related to consciousness. Detachment has to do with a psychological vantage point that enables one to see, to observe, to be aware. Detachment implies being free or distanced from the form factor, and, therefore, being in a better position to make right judgment regarding the treatment and handling of the particular form factor. Detachment in this sense is not separation from form, for separation implies moving from distorted consciousness [attachment] to no consciousness [isolation, separation]. Detachment implies greater consciousness.

The detachment process can be viewed as operating primarily on two levels.

[1] Attachment, involves the emotional body, the desire impulse, and therefore, the solar plexus centre and the sixth ray. [The two major centres lower than the solar plexus---the sacral centre and the base of the spine centre---are more instinctual in nature, involving the sex drive and the will-to-live or survival impulse.] As the individual likes and dislikes of the emotional body and solar plexus energy are developed, attachments abound. Some come easily and are easily relinquished. Other attachments become central to one’s life. One can become so identified with them that one mistakes them for life itself, even to the point of suicide. The development of the solar plexus centre begins to distinguish human from animal. Excessive attachment is more of a human problem than an animal one.

[2]   The second level on which the need for detachment acutely arises involves the personality as a whole. In the first condition above we have an emotional focus that is corrected most often through a mental focus. Mental clarity can dissipate the emotional glamour.  In the second condition we have an attachment that includes the totality of personality [physical-emotional-mental] and is rectified through soul focus [personality detachment]. This is not  the detachment of self-protection or of self-immunization or of aloofness, but that soul detachment which works from soul levels and--- seeing all life in the light which streams from the soul---regards everything from the standpoint of eternity.

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