Attachment Liberating into Space

When I talk about attachment, I'm talking about an identification with the past and the patterns that forms, whether conscious or unconscious. All of our identifications and patterns come from past experience and prevent us from experiencing the present as it is.

I'm not talking about detachment in the present. I''m talking about detachment from bringing the past into the present. In the present, one can be fully absorbed, alive, passionate, spontaneous.

When attachment to identifications is gone; ie. I'm a good person. I'm always nice. I'm a spiritual person. I never get angry, etc., then there is no fixed structure of who you are that was formed as a defense against the pain of the early childhood experience; then there is only essential nature arising as needed in each moment--it can be experienced personally or impersonally depending on the moment.

I'm not suggesting that you should try to be detached. That's just another should; another structure. I am saying that as you bring into awareness the deep structures/beliefs/emotions that have been unconsciously running you, then the attachment to them automatically is less.

With understanding of how they were formed and the purpose they served, the attachment lessens even more. But, the attachment can not dissolve until the emotional charge of the pattern is gone---that means feeling it fully til it holds no more charge. There are countless identifications, body images, beliefs, etc. that form our ego identity.

The more of these that come into awareness and dissolve, the freer, the more open and spacious we feel.