08-07-2011, 12:00 AM
I heard an interesting expression yesterday in a chat room. I over heard someone say they are 'i think i am getting too attatched, i need to back off a bit'.
It didnt seem much at the time but something about the phrase wouldnt fade away. So here i am hunting down why the *** it wont go away.
Im not sure that real detatchment is learned this way, by backing off that is. Real detatchemnt is an aspect of awareness that has been exercised tested challenged grown and expanded out of the normal orbit. I think that true detatchment is actually something magical, supra mundane. (As much as i loved the sorcery books i am trying to avoid using terms from them because i see they confuse things.) Mundane detatchment could well just be being stand-offish, or reluctance to get involved. The diffence bewteen the mundane and the magic versions are light years appart in my opinion. The thing is for some reason we think that we can learn detatchement by avoiding. This idea needs adjustment. Sorry but it does. You wont learn detatchment by running, quite possibly the reverse if anything. A sorcerers indifference is a magical power that WILL come, but only after we have won our battle to claim it.
For me, on the very rare occaisions when i have experienced a sorcerers detatchment, i was actually fully engaged in an experience, totally immersed. The aspect of detatchement was actually hovering outside this, separate.
Its tricky even describing this. I really hope you can follow what i am trying to get across. (strangely another wider chilling part of me couldnt give a toss if you do or you dont).
So to re-iterate, as much for myself as any poor fool reading this, sorcerers detatchment is not something that comes from trying to approximate it by being detatched from feeling things. To not feel things will only bring a weakening form of 'not caring'. That just leads to a weakness of character, which ironically takes us in the opposite direction.
Sorry to trouble you all again.
It didnt seem much at the time but something about the phrase wouldnt fade away. So here i am hunting down why the *** it wont go away.
Im not sure that real detatchment is learned this way, by backing off that is. Real detatchemnt is an aspect of awareness that has been exercised tested challenged grown and expanded out of the normal orbit. I think that true detatchment is actually something magical, supra mundane. (As much as i loved the sorcery books i am trying to avoid using terms from them because i see they confuse things.) Mundane detatchment could well just be being stand-offish, or reluctance to get involved. The diffence bewteen the mundane and the magic versions are light years appart in my opinion. The thing is for some reason we think that we can learn detatchement by avoiding. This idea needs adjustment. Sorry but it does. You wont learn detatchment by running, quite possibly the reverse if anything. A sorcerers indifference is a magical power that WILL come, but only after we have won our battle to claim it.
For me, on the very rare occaisions when i have experienced a sorcerers detatchment, i was actually fully engaged in an experience, totally immersed. The aspect of detatchement was actually hovering outside this, separate.
Its tricky even describing this. I really hope you can follow what i am trying to get across. (strangely another wider chilling part of me couldnt give a toss if you do or you dont).
So to re-iterate, as much for myself as any poor fool reading this, sorcerers detatchment is not something that comes from trying to approximate it by being detatched from feeling things. To not feel things will only bring a weakening form of 'not caring'. That just leads to a weakness of character, which ironically takes us in the opposite direction.
Sorry to trouble you all again.