attachment

  • curiosity, mindfulness and anxiety

    Mindfulness meditation helps us develop a mental-emotional “check engine light” that flashes in our awareness when we get reactive or anxious. There’s a song that’s been banging around in my head for a couple of weeks. It was recorded in 1966 by Buffalo Springfield. The opening lyrics go something like this: There’s something happening here/

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  • attachment in Buddhism

    The problem of attachment in Buddhism is not about having or not having an attachment, but it’s our tendency to not be aware an attachment ensnared us. Did you hear the one about the person attending his first meditation retreat? He asked the teacher if he could check his email during breaks. The teacher said

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