Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Attachment is Suffering, Detachment is Suffering

~Attachment is Suffering, Detachment is Suffering~


To let go of all. . . To let go of all. . . To let go of all. . .

There is suffering in attachment.
There is suffering in letting go.

There is suffering in being parted from that which is pleasing.
There is suffering in letting go of that which is impermanent.

There is suffering in being united with that which is displeasing.
There is suffering in holding on to that which is impermanent.

What is pleasing?
Is what is deemed pleasing truly pleasing?
Pleasing according to what? Pleasing according to whom?

What is displeasing?
Is what is deemed displeasing truly displeasing?
Displeasing according to what? Displeasing according to whom?

Spiritual growth is physically painful.
Spiritual growth is mentally painful.
Spiritual growth is emotionally painful.

Growth is painful.
There is inevitable pain along the Path of spiritual growth.

The Path seems difficult for as long as it does not seem easy.
The Path seems easy for as long as it does not seem difficult.

The Path seems both easy and difficult.
The Path is neither easy nor difficult.

Easy and Difficult are the same.
Easy and Difficult are opposites.
Easy and Difficult are both extremes.

Such extremes define each other.
Such extremes do not define the Path.
Such extremes exhist only outside the Path.

For as long as one seeks such extremes,
One is not truly walking the Path.

For as long as one exhists within such extremes,
One is not truly walking the Path.

For as long as one seeks such extremes,
One is caught within desire.

For as long as one exhists within such extremes,
One is caught within desire.

What is desire?
What is not desire?

Desire is attachment.
Attachment is suffering.
Desire is suffering.

Desire not for that which seems easy.
Desire not for that which seems not difficult.

Desire not for that which seems difficult.
Desire not for that which seems not easy.

Desire not for the beginning of easy or difficult.
Desire not for the ending of easy or difficult.

Desire not for attachment.
Desire not for detachment.

Desire not for the rapture of extremes.
Desire not for the discovery of balance.

Desire not for that which is illusion.
Desire not for that which is truth.

Desire not for the realization of the Path.
Desire not for Nibbana.

Desire not for desire.
Desire not for non-desire.

Desire not, Suffer not.

DESIRE NOT . . .
SUFFER NOT . . .

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