Practical Dharma

If you looked at the outside of my life it might seem my big problem with attachment is to things. I am so blessed in life. I have everything in life that I could possible want. But my most difficult attachment is around the issue of my denial of growing old, and a related suffering about my lost youth.

I’’m visiting The University of Georgia in Athens for training at the SouthEastern School of Alcohol and Other Drug Studies. Yesterday I walked through the campus to town for some breakfast. There were so many beautiful things to see on the campus (It was sorotity rush week !!) My early years were not that happy, but I really found myself when I went off to college. And because of this I think, one of the attachments I have the most trouble with with is youth - and to those things I associate with that.

At a workshop today, I saw a PowerPoint slide that had Reality in a circle and outside of that was Suffering. Everything outside of (my unconditional acceptance of) Reality is Suffering.

Filed by DrQuinn at 5:16 pm under Personal Stuff
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