Your Conscious, Friendly Mind – Day 12
Your Conscious, Friendly Mind Day 12
Day 12: We Are Enrolled in the University of Life
Attachment, the third affliction of the mind, can be external or internal. Our attachments can be to people or things outside of us, or clinging to concepts, philosophies, beliefs, preconceived notions and ideas within. It is easy to give up some external stuff of life, but imagine if someone hits a belief, a philosophy, or our idea of what is right and wrong; we feel miserable and truly stressed.
We feel a deep connection and start to cling to whatever we like. The deeper the attachment, the more the pain involved. Imagine strong emotions, which go through the worst stress in life in bereavement, loss of money or property, relationships, or fear of losing a big support; that is the reason people suffer the worst pains. It is due to their deep attachment.
Whatever we are attached to, that is the place from which the blows of life will come. We are enrolled in the University of Life. Whether we realize it or not, we are being taught at every moment. The instant we get caught up in worldly attachments, the moment we cling to something, we attach our own beliefs, ideas, and philosophies to it. We won’t be shaken from it. That clinging immediately results in a miserable state of mind. With a negative force akin to gravity, it instantly begins to attract blows from outside. Then we have a lesson.
Material attachment, however, is a stepping-stone to higher levels of consciousness; it prepares the ground for a higher life, the life of Divine attachment. If we have not realized the futility, fragility and pain involved in materialistic attachments, we do not graduate to the higher realms of Divine love. Divine love is the unconditional love that is the foundation of the universe. It alone paves the way for true freedom from all forms of bondage and agony. Until attachment is transmuted into Divine ecstasy, we can never be free.
