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Doesn't happen, guide to letting go of attachments by LEO about of Zan habits done that. I've been finding more and more at the Buddha, had a right, pretty much all of our struggles from frustrations to anxiety, from anger to sadness, from grief to work all stem from the same thing. The struggles come from being too tightly attached to something we were worried. We are tightly attached, a house fun things to be rather than relaxing to accepting wherever might happen when we put forth are best effort, while we're fresh, it was someone is bees were attached to how we want them to be rather an exit, seeing them as the wonderful flawed human they are when we procrastinate, we are attach to things being easy and comfortable like destruction.

Rather than accepting that to do something important, we have to push into discomfort and so on. I gave you ready to accept that being too attached. Clinging to tightly is the car. So our struggles, then the answer is simple: right, just loosen the attachments, just let go he's your said than done. Any of us who have tried to let go of attachments knows that is not so easy in practice when our minds or clinging tight, we don't want to I go. We really really want things are way. So as to answer that and the shore guide, will look at a few practices to help with this letting go practices. We can help dissolve these attachments with a few different practices. Number one meditation meditation assembly sitting still and trying to pay attention to the present moment. Whether that's your breath, your body or, what's around you right now, what you'll find is that your mind runs away from the present moment attaching to worries about the future planning

Remembering things of the past in meditation you packed, letting go of these many attachments by noticing why your mind is doing and letting go returning the present moment this happens again, and then again and so you're good at it. As a muscle memory, after doing a hundreds, thousands of times, you learn that Whatever you were attached to is a simple story, a narrative, a dream is not so heavy just a bit of cod that can be blown away by a breeze number to compassion in this meditation. You wish for an end to your suffering or an end to the suffering of others. What happens is that this wish transforms Eve being stuck in your attachment to finding a warm heart to melt the attachment and find a way to ease it. You become bigger In your story, when you wish for your own suffering to end and when you search for others is suffering to end. You connect yourself to them, see that you're suffering is the same as there's an under you're in this together. What happens is that your attachments,

story become less important. Not such a big deal as you connect with us in this way, number three interdependence try meditating, not only on the wish for the suffering of others and yourself to end, but for others to be happy all others, whether you like them or not. Again, through doing this, you start to see that you're, all next in your suffering and in your desire to be happy you are not so suffer from them, you're, not separate, but interdependent. This can she was others helps you to be less, attach and more at ease with life number for accepting at the heart of things attachment I do not want things to be the way they are. You want something different does, because there's think about the present moment about the person in front of you about yourself that You don't like by meditating, practicing compassion and interdependence. You can start a trusted things are ok, just as they are, they may not ideal, but they are just fine beautiful, even

and you start to become more aware of your continual rejection of the present moment and open up to the actual reality of this moment instead over and over this is the practice open, in investigating the moment with curiosity accepting it as it is never five expansiveness all of these products. This result in a more expansive mind at enough so narrowly focused on his little story of how things should be not so focused on small. Does Ireland, in a version see those as part of a bigger picture. The mind can hope These little desires and much more. It's a wide open space like a deep blue ocean or dreamy blue sky and the little attachments are just a part of it. But it can also see the suffering of others and their attachments chickens. The present moment in all its flawed glorious beauty and be present with all of this at once practices expansiveness right now, the Zen habits method

The way to deal with attachments isn't simple, and it takes practice meditate daily, focusing on the breath for a couple of minutes every morning, seniors free and your story and attachments, as he meditated see this after meditation as well. After a few weeks, add compassion, meditation wish for your suffering to and then expanded to others in your life than to all. Living beings the sea or interconnectedness with others. In practice. Acceptance of the present moment, exam Equally as it is, and little doses, small steps practice, expanding your mind, to include these things and all other things in the present moment, then, when a difficult task, arises in your daily life, see the suffering, see the attachment. Spanned your mind beyond it, giving yourself compassion while seeing that, You are bigger than this attachment, let it be like a little cloud floating around in the wide expanse of your mind

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