We had a great book club discussion. Different people enjoyed different aspects of the book and ideology. The concepts of nonattachment and "letting go" made the largest impression. I spoke about how we are so used to trying to control outcomes. It's part of the American Dream - you are responsible for your own future. You succeed or fail by your own hand. By the same token, if you suffer, it means that you should have prevented it by taking a different course of action. This has caused me a lot of stress personally, trying to analyze all of the things I could have done differently after a tragedy. We want so much to think that we control everything, but we don't, and the concept of detaching and acknowledging what happens in life without fighting it can help with that (theoretically). In the book, Lama Surya Das mentions a sign he once saw that said, "Let Go, or Be Dragged." That image stuck with me.
If you could detach in a healthy way, who/what would you detach from?
If you could detach in a healthy way, who/what would you detach from?
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