The Truth of Non-Attachment

A description of what non-attachment is and is not.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• non-attachment
• non
• attachment
• truth
• ego
• psychology
• spirituality

[tikka56]

hey! That was a great video! I love your simplicity of style! Hey, I really wanted to ask you on how you uploaded your speech onto youtube. I wrote a book recently, which tackles all the nonsense, bulls**t and hypocrisy of the world, and I really want to get my voice online. I appreciate what you did, and I thank you in advance for responding. God bless, Mattias.

[MenoftheInfinite]

@tikka56 - Hey Mattias. I did by it using an audio program to record the narration - Audacity is s decent free one - then I used a video maker program for the rest (PowerDirector - which is not free). If you have Windows you might have Windows Movie Maker already installed. It's not fantastic but it does the job. There are also lots of videos here at Youtube about making Youtube videos. Just try a few different search strings.

[yupiie]

your videos are good, and I´m enjoying seeing them. Are u a buddhist? what are your ideas, your "worldview". Show them to me! =)

[MenoftheInfinite]

I answer the question of whether I'm a Buddhist in this video:

watch?v=-pR4BvW1Vnw

As for my general worldview, I think it best that you just watch more of my videos! Doing so from the start would be a good idea.

[DanielTejnicky]

Nice IM finding your way of thinging very similar to mine. I tested one buddhist exactly on non attachement. I said: "If I take the rock and throw it trought a window of the car - I actually did NOTHING WRONG. I simpy moved rock from point A to B"

Buddhist said: "What? no ! You did wrong! you caused emotional and financial harm to owner of the car"

Buddhist wasnt able to leave ego and with it judgement.

[geredgered]

Why do you keep calling them ego based delusions? What is with the word "delusion?"

[MenoftheInfinite]

People tend to mistakenly interpret "Emptiness" to mean something akin to "nothingness". This is totally wrong - and frankly, it would be pretty stupid. "Emptiness" means that things lack any ultimate or inherent or essential nature. What one experiences in direct perception, devoid of any conceptual overlays is the truth of what things are.

[pirbird14]

Thanks. My understanding of both Hegel and the buddha are mostly secondhand.

I find that when I have cleared some cobwebs out of my mind - whether through reason or meditation- the direct perception of reality that is possible provides a richness of sensation. I have difficulty understanding why the buddha would call that emptyness.

[MenoftheInfinite]

Well, In Buddhist thought Emptiness indicates that the universal and the particular are actually identical. "Form is formlessness; formlessness is form". Or, ultimate and conventional reality are the same thing. As I say, it's been too long since I've read Hegel to be able to say how much this accords with is own thinking. I now he dealt with issues of duality and finite/infinite more directly than most in the western tradition.

Thanks for the thoughtful comments so far btw.

[pirbird14]

Thanks for the resource.

According to this and to other teachings, "emptiness of emptiness" is a stage reachedwhen we negate the concept of emptiness. My impression is that buddhism fetishizes this state of consciousness, whereas for Hegel the "negation of the negation" is the beginning of a new round in the dialectic between the universal and the particular.