Highland Mindfulness Group

Letting Go or Non Attachment

To let go does not mean to stop caring, it means I can’t do it for someone else.

To let go is not to cut myself off, it’s the realisation that I can’t control another.

To let go is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences.

To let go is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands.

To let go is not to try to change or blame another, it is to make the most of myself.

To let go is not to care for, but to care about.

To let go is not to fix, but to be supportive.

To let go is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.

To let go is not to be in the middle arranging all the out comes, but to allow others

to affect their own destines.

To let go is not to be protective, it’s to permit another to face reality.

To let go is not to criticise or regulate anyone, but to try to become what I dream I can do.

To let go is to fear less and to love more.

What Are Our Greatest Attachments

• PEOPLE – loved ones, family, children, relationships and friends
• HOME – furniture, garden, gadgets ( tv, dvd, mobile phone) place and country
• POSSESSIONS/ BELONGINGS – car , bike, dvd,s, games, cloths, money and toys
• PERSONAL – attitudes, values, beliefs, motives, ideas, opinions, memories concepts, power, control, ego , habits and conditioning
• JOB – status, power, control, position, role , winning , doing and achieving and security
• SOCIAL – position, status, power importance and activities
• BODY – attractiveness, health, exercise, image and food/ drink
• EMOTIONS –negative (anger, frustration, guilt, greed, hurt, fear, anxiety and hate) positive (kindness, compassion and generosity
• SPIRITUAL – dharma, practice, teachers, past karma, sangha, life and death
• NOTE:
• THE UNIVERSE HAS ENROLLED US IN THE GRADUATE PROGRAMME OF LIFE – CALLED LOSS!
• WE WILL ALL LOOSE SOMETHING AND IN THE END EVERYTHING.
• WHAT GIVES US PLEASURE WILL ALSO GIVE US PAIN?
• HOW DO WE FEEL ABOUT LETTING GO ANY OF OUR ATTACHMENTS?