I'm not using the word "attachment" anymore. It's too misleading, partly because it's mistranslated, so there are better ways of making myself understood. I'm throwing everything overboard except the principle of accepting all consciousness. I realise that there hasn't been a single time I used the word attachment in infinitarianism, and that's because it's simpler to say that the only thing there should not be is repression. It's alright to feel whatever emotions one may when someone or something is gone, but one has to accept those emotions and not repress them. I don't have a problem with the feeling of missing someone or something; I can just let it be part of my mental process and function as usual — or even better because of it, because it adds a new stimulus. That's all I ever wanted to say with that I'm detached, that I don't cling, that I don't try to prevent change, that I don't try to stop the flux, but that I let life be free to unfold as it must. I let everything come and go when it needs to… but I'm also letting the concept of attachment go, since it can just as well be taken to refer to caring at all.
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