01.20.11

Non-Attachment: What Does it Mean?

Posted in articles at 9:42 am by MPJ

Last night I was fortunate enough to have been invited to a most excellent discussion session centered on the book “The Life of Meaning; Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World” edited by Bob Abernethy.
Amidst the many compelling points that were covered, a particular one reverberated in my brain the moment I woke up this morning: the issue of non-attachment (versus attachment) as a spiritual trait.
When one person in the discussion last night mentioned the typically Buddhist concept that we should strive to avoid attachment, some others commented how they could not see “detachment” Read the rest of this entry »