What Is Attachment? - 4th January 2018

What is attachment? Attachment must include two things, isn't it? There must be a 'me' for whom something is 'mine'. Can there be attachment without that? There must be a 'me' for which something is 'mine'. If I say 'my house', can there be a 'my house' without 'me'? So the 'me' is me and the 'mine' is house. Now, every time we believe 'mine', you believe 'me' and you believe that something is mine, then we believe the notion of 'me'.

That's why I have been pointing out that all these sensations, perceptions are coming and going. Everything is coming and going, is it? We take one set of perception and say, 'Ha, this is mine. This I want to hold on to.' It doesn't go because everything is constantly changing. But the root of all of this is that we have taken a set of perceptions and labeled that 'me'. Now, where is the 'me' pointing to? It suggests those set of sensations that you call the body.

This separation does not come from your heart. It comes only from that which divides, which is the mind. So even in the world of appearances, we have taken some sensations and called them 'me' and 'mine', and some sensations and called them 'other'. This is the root of all conflict, all suffering.