How to be non-attached? || Acharya Prashant (2019)

Acharya Prashant

Video Information: 28.01.2019. Myth Demolition Tour,  Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India  Context: ~ What is attachment? ~ Why we get attached so easily? ~ How to be non-attached? ~ Why does thoughts trouble us? ~ How to avoid ruining the life?  Music Credits: Milind Date #acharyaprashant #attachment #overthinkingsolution

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00:00Non-attachment is simple.

00:12How do you get attached?

00:15That's far more difficult than you manage it.

00:20Have you ever considered how much investment and energy attachment requires?

00:35Attachment is not cheap.

00:37It requires a lot of investment.

00:45Attachment is not natural.

00:47You require to maintain it.

00:52It's a high maintenance thing.

00:56It requires a lot of upkeep.

00:59It's a white elephant.

01:07Which means non-attachment should be simple.

01:09Just stop the upkeep.

01:13Just block the funds that go towards maintenance of the attachment.

01:20When I say funds, I do not merely mean money.

01:23All the emotional capital that you invest in attachment, just stop it.

01:32Does anybody want to invest in something that offers negative returns?

01:41Attachment is an investment that gives you negative returns.

01:44It's not merely that all that which you have invested goes down the drain.

01:50It does not merely go down the drain.

01:52It boomerangs upon you.

01:56When you invest in the shares of a company and the company goes bankrupt, you cry horse.

02:02You say I invested a million dollars, a million dollars and it's turned to zero.

02:12And it's so bad that your investment has brought you zero results.

02:18Attachment is an investment where you invest a million dollars and they are gone and the

02:28attachment has sent you a notice for 10 million dollars more.

02:35And you are obliged to invest another 10 million dollars because you are attached.

02:44Not only has the existing investment gone down the drain, it has necessitated further

02:54investment.

02:56Is that not the story of attachment?

03:00You keep putting more and more into that deep well.

03:10It doesn't get filled up.

03:14But you keep putting in more and more and your justification is that I have already

03:20put in so much.

03:22How do I abandon my existing investment?

03:34Life is short, time is short, resources are short, energy is short.

03:41Why spend all that in clinging to things that are forever threatening to go away?

03:54Tell me if something were an integral part of you, an inalienable part of you, would

04:00you require to be attached to it?

04:05You don't require to be attached to your heart.

04:09It's not going away anywhere, or is it?

04:12You don't have to keep proceeding.

04:16It's there.

04:19But you have to be attached to your mobile phone.

04:22It can go away somewhere.

04:28Don't invest too much and if you have to invest, invest rather in your heart.

04:34At least it won't abandon you.

04:38At least it won't suddenly disappear someday.

04:42At least no technology company can come up and say, well, your model is redundant now.

04:49Here is the new technology, the old one is obsolete.

04:57That which can go away usually does not deserve too much of your attention.

05:16But then our logic is because it threatens to go away, so I give it all my time.

05:22And that which I know for sure is inalienable to me, I take for granted and have therefore

05:33no respect for.

05:37That which troubles you gets all your attention.

05:43That which reassures you remains neglected.

06:01See that there's no point wasting your life and thoughts and energy on stuff that would

06:14anyway not last.

06:22How much do you want to spend for the upkeep of this hall?

06:28Yes, you'll be out in the next two minutes.

06:38Why do you want to invest yourself here?

06:50It's far wiser to spend on your eyes, on your teeth, on your liver.

07:03They at least have some relative longevity.

07:10In this hall, you are a visitor here.

07:15What's the point clinging?

07:17What's the point paying too much for it?

07:20Pay a little, consider a little, give it a bit of thought, not more than that.

07:32And when you leave it, leave it fully, don't start crying.

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