I have many attachments in my awakening that I would not want to let go of. Attachments that would cause great pain if I were to lose. But I must prepare to let go of even those things, relationships, possessions, aspirations, and experiences that I treasure if I am to heal completely and escape.
I need to have faith that what I value and desire now is going to expire in the same way that what I valued years ago has no value now. I once desired possessions and relationships which now mean nothing to me. Everything I value now is the same; it is only my present state of desire that makes me think otherwise. I must shed these attachments until there is nothing left. Everything I value now in thirdself will perish and be no more valuable than the bedsheet I lie on now. I will see no value in it; I will feel no remorse or regret or sense of loss by the disappearance of a close friend than the passage from one room to another. That which I value is no different; just shapes I have given meaning to, but which lacks any true value.
Everything I desire is a fixation without any innate and authentic value to me beyond the fixation itself. These desires for relationships, experiences, possessions and yearnings are as drugs; momentarily enticing, but ultimately destructive and painful.
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