Attachment is the sense of 'me' and 'mine' that binds the creature to objects, experiences, and identities. On the path of knowledge, attachment is a form of ignorance it arises from misidentifying with experiences, bodies, and possessions that are not what we truly are.

The Nature of Attachment

• Attachment arises from the causal body, where tendencies and desires are stored as seeds.

• When the mind identifies with an experience ('this is mine', 'this is me'), attachment is formed and suffering follows when the experience changes or ends.

• The root of all attachment is the fundamental misidentification: taking the body-mind to be the self.

• 'Me' and 'mine' are thoughts they are experiences appearing in the universal memory, not what we truly are.

On the Path of Knowledge

• Recognizing that 'I am not any experience' automatically loosens all attachments, because nothing experienced is me or mine.

• Awareness practice reveals that attachment is simply a pattern in the memory it arises, stays for a while, and dissolves on its own when not fed.

• The path does not require forcibly giving up attachments; it requires seeing through them with discrimination and self-knowledge.

Related Concepts

Detachment, desire, ignorance, causal body, vasanas, suffering, self-knowledge, awareness, jiva