Past Attachments

Understanding past attachments is very important in breaking the chains of suffering because it’s the attachment to “I“ that wants to only remember past pleasures…

Past attachments of how we remember things and constantly bring them into the present is simply that, an attachment. Although this happens without it being realized, when it is realized, it changes the way existence is viewed. Past attachments distort how things truly are because they’re viewed through the conditioning in place; conditioning that mostly attaches to constantly seeking pleasure. Think of this, you don’t go to a restaurant and order something you don’t like. This is a past attachment in place and until it’s realized, life is spent constantly seeking a past pleasure; the mind doesn’t like past unpleasantries so it attaches to anything it remembers as pleasurable. This is part of the survival instinct ingrained in us. Those who remember painful events also use them to find something pleasurable, even if to just push them away, hence this is also why one attaches to the outside for comfort.

Nobody attaches to anything for any other reason but to provide comfort, in this comfort seeking there’s so much unconscious suffering. Comfort pleasure, pleasure comfort, these two go hand in hand and until this is understood they’ll continue to cause unconscious suffering. Understanding the past attachments is very important in breaking the chains of bondage because it’s the attachment to “I“ that makes only wants to remember what’s pleasurable. Even to the point of its own destruction “I” attaches to pleasure, just look in any rehab or detox. Every drug or drink of alcohol taken had the attachment of pleasure associated with it or it wouldn’t have be taken. Understanding this isn’t limited to just those things, this goes for anything that’s reached for. The mind defaults to what’s familiar and it attaches to anything seen as pleasure. Until this is realized, you will continue to attach to the past that constantly looks for pleasure…