Video Information:
28.01.2019. Myth Demolition Tour, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
Context:
~ What is attachment?
~ Why we get attached so easily?
~ How to be non-attached?
~ Why does thoughts trouble us?
~ How to avoid ruining the life?
Music Credits: Milind Date
#acharyaprashant #attachment #overthinkingsolution
28.01.2019. Myth Demolition Tour, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
Context:
~ What is attachment?
~ Why we get attached so easily?
~ How to be non-attached?
~ Why does thoughts trouble us?
~ How to avoid ruining the life?
Music Credits: Milind Date
#acharyaprashant #attachment #overthinkingsolution
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00:00Non-attachment is simple.
00:12How do you get attached?
00:15That's far more difficult than you manage it.
00:20Have you ever considered how much investment and energy attachment requires?
00:35Attachment is not cheap.
00:37It requires a lot of investment.
00:45Attachment is not natural.
00:47You require to maintain it.
00:52It's a high maintenance thing.
00:56It requires a lot of upkeep.
00:59It's a white elephant.
01:07Which means non-attachment should be simple.
01:09Just stop the upkeep.
01:13Just block the funds that go towards maintenance of the attachment.
01:20When I say funds, I do not merely mean money.
01:23All the emotional capital that you invest in attachment, just stop it.
01:32Does anybody want to invest in something that offers negative returns?
01:41Attachment is an investment that gives you negative returns.
01:44It's not merely that all that which you have invested goes down the drain.
01:50It does not merely go down the drain.
01:52It boomerangs upon you.
01:56When you invest in the shares of a company and the company goes bankrupt, you cry horse.
02:02You say I invested a million dollars, a million dollars and it's turned to zero.
02:12And it's so bad that your investment has brought you zero results.
02:18Attachment is an investment where you invest a million dollars and they are gone and the
02:28attachment has sent you a notice for 10 million dollars more.
02:35And you are obliged to invest another 10 million dollars because you are attached.
02:44Not only has the existing investment gone down the drain, it has necessitated further
02:54investment.
02:56Is that not the story of attachment?
03:00You keep putting more and more into that deep well.
03:10It doesn't get filled up.
03:14But you keep putting in more and more and your justification is that I have already
03:20put in so much.
03:22How do I abandon my existing investment?
03:34Life is short, time is short, resources are short, energy is short.
03:41Why spend all that in clinging to things that are forever threatening to go away?
03:54Tell me if something were an integral part of you, an inalienable part of you, would
04:00you require to be attached to it?
04:05You don't require to be attached to your heart.
04:09It's not going away anywhere, or is it?
04:12You don't have to keep proceeding.
04:16It's there.
04:19But you have to be attached to your mobile phone.
04:22It can go away somewhere.
04:28Don't invest too much and if you have to invest, invest rather in your heart.
04:34At least it won't abandon you.
04:38At least it won't suddenly disappear someday.
04:42At least no technology company can come up and say, well, your model is redundant now.
04:49Here is the new technology, the old one is obsolete.
04:57That which can go away usually does not deserve too much of your attention.
05:16But then our logic is because it threatens to go away, so I give it all my time.
05:22And that which I know for sure is inalienable to me, I take for granted and have therefore
05:33no respect for.
05:37That which troubles you gets all your attention.
05:43That which reassures you remains neglected.
06:01See that there's no point wasting your life and thoughts and energy on stuff that would
06:14anyway not last.
06:22How much do you want to spend for the upkeep of this hall?
06:28Yes, you'll be out in the next two minutes.
06:38Why do you want to invest yourself here?
06:50It's far wiser to spend on your eyes, on your teeth, on your liver.
07:03They at least have some relative longevity.
07:10In this hall, you are a visitor here.
07:15What's the point clinging?
07:17What's the point paying too much for it?
07:20Pay a little, consider a little, give it a bit of thought, not more than that.
07:32And when you leave it, leave it fully, don't start crying.