Attachment and Detachment (Ashtavakra Gita 1.1) - 27th September 2016

Second thing he said was detachment. Who can speak a little bit about detachment?

So, it feels like detachment is allowing everything to come and go.

Yes. So, what would attachment be? Attachment is when you believe what the mind is offering as an alternative to what it already is. Yes. I simply sometimes also describe in satsang that attachment is to believe that something that is appearing in this realm is me or mine. So, to say that this is me or it is mine—which even to say mine actually implies that there is a me first to be able to call it mine—so this must be attachment: to say that this belongs to me. A sense of ownership. My life, my family, my relationships, my money, my spirituality, my freedom. So, attachments can be possible only when something seems like it is mine.