Nonattachment

Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast

Timber Hawkeye

Spirituality, Buddhism, Awareness, Calm, Society & Culture, Meditation, Mindful, Buddhist, Philosophy, Awake, Minimalist, Innerpeace, Selfhelp, Spiritual, Education, Aware, Mindfulness, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Love and attachment are not the same thing, they are the healthy and unhealthy versions of the same thing. We get attached to items, people, ideas, beliefs, and opinions. The more attached we are, the less free we are. This episode is an abbreviation of a talk I gave on Sunday about the beauty of love without attachment, not because the love will last forever, but because nothing ever does.

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0:17.0	Welcome to the Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast. Our intention is to awaken, enlighten, enrich, and inspire a simple and uncomplicated life. Discover the benefits of mindful living with your host, Timber Hawkeye.
0:32.0	As a kid, I used to get attached to my toys, my books, and even my clothes.
0:32.7	I think it's because very few things brought me joy at the time.
0:36.6	So if a pair of sweats was particularly comfortable, for example, I kept them long after
0:41.4	outgrowing them.
0:42.8	Everything in my room held some deep meaning to me with a backstory, intention, or purpose.
0:48.3	I even kept Nickknacks with which I no longer played because just looking at them or holding them in my hand transported me back to fond memories which is what I was really trying to hoard.
0:59.6	It was never about the items themselves but what they represented. In other words, I was attached to the past, which means I was detached from reality.
1:10.0	When I was 13, I packed a few clothes into a suitcase as if going on vacation for a week,
1:15.2	flew to the U.S. with my family to see if we might want to live in California someday,
1:20.0	and we ended up staying in San Francisco for good.
1:23.0	I never returned to my childhood bedroom or saw anything that was in there ever again.
1:27.9	My dad flew back a few months later to sell, donate, or trash everything that was in the house, and I know it sounds devastating, but it was actually liberating.
1:36.7	I don't think I've grown attached to anything since then.
1:39.5	And nowadays, the moment I sense an attachment to something developing, I give it away.
1:44.8	Love and attachment are not the same thing.
1:47.3	They are the healthy and unhealthy versions of the same thing.
1:51.4	Learning not to get attached to people is developing the ability to love them
1:55.5	immensely, not because they will be in your life forever, but because they probably won't.
2:01.0	My friends joke that I love harder and deeper than anyone they know because I stay conscious of the fact that relationships tend to fade, fail, or crumble, and people die.
2:10.5	It's the opposite of morbid, which is an unhealthy infatuation with death.
2:14.8	It's a celebration of life.
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