Attachment

All our guides and Gurus teach us to beware of attachment. 
The Sikh gurus call it moh. 

What does it mean? 

Why does it cause suffering? 

And why we must be aware of it?

We are all attached

You can be attached to ideas as well as people – yourself first of all -- places, things.

SUFFERING IS CAUSED

by attachment to any of these things.

ATTACHMENT TO PEOPLE

makes you think they belong to you.

ATTACHMENT TO PEOPLE MAKES YOU STRIVE

over and over to change them to fit your needs.

HOW CAN YOU CHANGE THEM

when you can’t even change yourself?

THE MORE YOU TRY TO CHANGE THEM

the less they will change.

ONLY LOVE CAN CHANGE THEM

love, that accepts and makes them receptive. 

TRUE LOVE

is unconditional: you love them for who they are, faults and all.

PEOPLE HAVE THEIR DESTINIES

just like you. 

ATTACHMENT IS TENTACLES, CLAWS

that wrap themselves around people, places, things, ideas.

NOBODY BELONGS TO ANYBODY

but the energy that created them.

ATTACHMENT TO IDEAS

puts you in a cage , imprisons you.

IT MAKES YOU THINK

you alone are right and everyone else who thinks differently is wrong.

IDEAS ABOUT LIFE

are only conditioning.

WE MUST HAVE IDEAS ABOUT LIFE

but know they are only ideas and probably limited.

SINCE YOU MUST HAVE IDEAS

know that they may be wrong.

HAVE IDEAS THAT ARE

vast, inclusive, spacious, loving, trusting, OPEN.