#CLRM - ATTACHMENTS (CLRMA)

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E04 - #CLRM - ATTACHMENTS (CLRMA)

CHRISTOPHER LIAM ROSE TALKS ABOUT #CLRM - ATTACHMENTS (CLRMA)

#CLRM - ATTACHMENTS (CLRMA)

In Buddhism, attachment (upādāna) is the habitual clinging to people, objects, ideas, or outcomes, acting as a primary source of suffering (dukkha). Because all things are impermanent, clinging causes distress when change inevitably occurs. It is distinct from love or appreciation, representing a "sticky" desire that creates emotional dependency. 

Key Aspects of Attachment in Buddhism:

• Definition (Upādāna): It translates to "fuel" or "grasping." Just as fuel keeps a fire burning, attachment fuels the cycle of dissatisfaction and suffering.
• The Root of Suffering: Attachment convinces us that our peace depends on people or things staying exactly as they are. When they change, we suffer.
• "Sticky Desire" vs. Love: Attachment is self-centered ("I need you to make me happy"), whereas love is focused on the well-being of others.
• Not Just Objects: It involves attachment to identities, views, and specific outcomes

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Hello everyone, my name is Christopher Leon Rose. I'm an author, mentor, life coach, motivational speaker, evangelist, musician, and activist. In the Christopher Leon Rose Monastery podcast, we're going to be sharing teachings about Buddhism. I'm sharing this podcast to inspire humanity to learn about Jesus Christ, Jehovah, and Buddha, and to also help humanity to learn about faith, spirituality, faith, and religion. So in the Christopher Leon Rose Monasteries, this is all to do with the Buddhist teachings and the Buddhist tradition. So for today's podcast on audio, we're going to be sharing about attachment and how attachment affects your suffering and causes suffering. So it says that attachment is a habit of clinging to people, objects, ideas, or outcomes affecting and attaching as a prime source of suffering. So basically, when you're attached to certain things in life, you basically will have suffering because you're attached to human beings, you're attached to objects, and you're attached to outcomes and ideas. So that attachment brings suffering, pain, and adversity. So it's very important in the Buddhist tradition and in life that you don't have detachment of certain things. So don't be attached to your family, don't be attached to your spouse, don't be attached to your partner, don't be attached to your relationships, don't be attached to your friendships or material things or possessions or belongings. Also, with attachment, it says the definition of up up nanda is the feel and grasping, just the feel keeps fire burning. Attachment fuels the cycle of dissatisfaction and suffering. So when we're constantly attached to certain things in our life, this is what causes suffering, pain, and adversity. I normally call the suffering, pain, adversity the self. So when you're attached to the self, all your suffering, pain, and adversity comes from that. So in the Buddhist tradition, what it's trying to discover and find in the Buddhist religion is that we need to have detachment, so not attached to yourself, your thoughts, your ideas, um your people in your life, or possessions, or things within your life. So this is why we need to find that spirituality, fate, religion, and fate within our lives. So normally to basically become detached from the attachments, we need to discover the no-self, selflessness, and know thy self. So how do you discover that? Well, in the Buddhist tradition, there's something called the eighth um the eighth the noble eightfold path. So I'm just gonna explain it now. So the noble um eightfold path. So this will help you to discover the no-self, self-assist and know their self. So the noble eightfold path consists of right view, right understanding, right solution, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. So when you discover the eightfold path and you learn this in the Buddhist tradition, you start to get detached from attachments. Also, the eightfold path as well, um, something that's important to learn is to do the six spiritual practices prayer, meditation, mindfulness, walking, journaling, and silence. And also when you get a detached from attachments, which are the things that belong to you, your possessions, your materialistic things, your family, your friends, and your loved ones, when you get detached from those things and situations and people, ideas and outcomes, then we can do the seven levels of helping other people. So level one, volunteering, the good level and helping other people, level two, jobs, careers, employment, the great level and helping other people, level three, business and entrepreneurship, the highest level in helping other people, level four, faith and spiritual, the spiritual levels and helping other people, level five, spiritually helping other people, helping other people, the teaching levels and helping other people, level six, spiritually helping other people to spiritually change, spiritual change levels and helping other people, and level seven, um, spiritually helping other people and spiritual truth, the spiritual enlightenment levels and helping other people. So by going on the noble eightfold path, the six spiritual practices and the seven levels of helping other people, you start to detach from the self. Remember, the self is what caused the suffering, pain, and adversity within your life, and all of the situations and life experiences you're going through. So once you go on this journey and on this Buddhist path of discovering yourself, then you actually find the no-self, selflessness, and know thyself and become who you really are as a human being. And that's how you can free yourself from attachment. The the attachment is the craving and the desire of belonging to something that that you own. So you need to be detached from it to discover the no-self, selflessness and know thyself. And by discovering that, um all your attachments will disappear, and you'll start to be detached from certain things which will help you to not have suffering, pain, and adversity, and which will basically lead to the ending of suffering, pain, adversity. So I hope this has helped. I hope you um detach from attachments and find who you really are. Okay, thank you for listening to the podcast now. Take care now. Bye bye.