detachment | detachment
Apr.05.2013
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s screenplays did not scream, or even appear to make profound statements. The sorrow was matter-of-fact. It took me a while to understand the detachment.
“I want a happiness without a hole in it, I want the bowl without a crack” – (From ‘The Golden Bowl’)...
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Feb.03.2013
Everything changes, doesn't it?
I know this with my head; it's something in my heart that resists it.
The Buddha said there are five processes over which none of us has any control…
Growing old is one. And, isn't that the truth? If you don't believe it, fetch the picture album off the bookshelf....
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Dec.27.2012
In order to move out of a negative and stressful stage in my life, I needed to recognize the source and deal with it.
It actually took me a long time to connect the dots but when I finally did, it was a piece of cake!
To discard, that is.
I am a fan of Downton Abbey! It was reason...
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Oct.06.2012
An open mind!
What does that mean? It means to have an opinion but no attachment to it; it means to live by what you know to be truth for you while respectful toward another whose truth may be similar or somewhat different.
Attachment is the problem! Detachment is the key!
The key to what? How...
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Aug.23.2012
Used to have an expression we often used, maintaining. This meant you were keeping it real.
Maintaining is about keeping balance, maintaining stress and outlook. Spent the night in some darkness as the day stole toward us. Pictured sundogs rising in line around the world, chasing some into...
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Aug.21.2012
August 21
HOW EVER YOU CAN
I heard, “let go with love.”
“You know how to do that?” asked my sponsor.
“No, that’s why I’m here to see you, but it sure sounds like something I should do.”
“Well, in a perfect world maybe we can all do it that way, but for now let go with a...
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Mar.17.2012
Well detachment worked until Friday morning....
I had started my week filled with the determination to remain zen-like. I would stay out of mayhem's way and "maintain my own lane" as a dear mentor once advised me.
But, as the week progressed and the frantic energy continued to build, I was...
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Mar.14.2012
My status today: "I'll thank you to keep your chaos to yourself."It was another day of the artful practice of detachment. This meant removing myself from drama, confrontation, and chaos.
Another discovery on the long road of transition is when chaos and mayhem swirl around me, I begin to...
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Mar.13.2012
I was repeating this mantra to myself in the dark last night, "Let it go, detach yourself from this situation."In Buddhism letting go is known as non-attachment. Buddhists believe that everything in life is impermanent and ever-changing. We often believe this in our hearts, but our brains...
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Mar.10.2011
Woke up to green tea. And green grass. On which three bodies had fallen. The newspaper’s image was without them. Bodiless grass. Malad, Mumbai. A 31-year-old threw her son down from the 19th floor. Then her daughter. They were seven and nine years old. She flung herself after that. Dead on...
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