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One way to practice surrendering to the angel of death is by practicing what I call "attach-detach." Perhaps by calling it "attach-detach" you can see that it is something you can practice in your daily life. When something comes to you, you attach and enjoy it as intensely as you can. As soon as the moment passes, you detach and let it go. You don't need to pay attention to what is gone, to what is already dead. When your attention is in the present, you aren't carrying the burdens of the past.  If you can master attachment and detachment, you will keep your attention in the present moment. With awareness and practice, you are always going to enjoy your life because whatever is before you, you are going to give 100 percent of your attention. You are going to take all the action necessary to enjoy your life, and detach from whatever is gone For example: I may love a man very deeply, but as soon as I want to own him, I am attached, and I don't want to let him go. No matter what I do, he is free, and every time he walks away from me, if I am attached, it's going to hurt. If I am detached, I respect his freedom. He can do whatever he wants to do, and it doesn't hurt me at all. By being detached, I respect my own freedom as well. When you are around me, I enjoy your beauty and your presence, and I attach to you. But when I walk out the door and I do not see you, then I detach, because if I don't detach, it's going to hurt. The key is to find an equilibrium between attachment and detachment. Attachments helps you to live your life intensely in the present moment. With attachment you can increase your desire to accomplish whatever you want to accomplish, and with detachment you don't have to suffer what you didn't accomplish. You simply let go. The practice of attach-detach can be used with business, with homes, with cars, with pets, with everything. But it's even more important with knowledge. Humans become very attached to knowledge. We are so attached to what we believe that we don't want to let go of our beliefs, even if these beliefs are not true at all. Even if our beliefs make us suffer and create a big drama in our life, they also make us feel safe, because it is a behavior that we know so well. For all our life we have carried a corpse with us. That corpse is what we believe we are; it is the human form and all those distorted images we identify with. It is dead and heavy and it rules our life, but we don't want to let it go. We know our limitations, we know how to suffer, we know how to react with jealousy, with anger, and all that emotional drama makes us feel secure. As we said before, letting go of what we know, of what we believe, always creates a little fear and anxiety because we are going into unknown territory We don't have to attach to our beliefs. If we are not attached to our beliefs and a better concept comes to us, we can let go of the old concept, adopt a new concept, and improve our life much faster. We can let go of the distorted images we identify with. We can detach from the agreements and beliefs that limit the expression of our creativity and our love. This frees our energy to create a new dream. And what we create is a masterpiece of art: our own life. ©2000 Don Miguel Ruiz Click here to return to MASTER LIST http://zwap.to/Anim0n |
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