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 Hello David Doane,  Thank you for sharing your thoughts!  I resonate with what you're saying.  The one phrase that creates some tension in me is "in the world but not of it".  It makes the world substandard, something to be transcended.  I know there is a long tradition of seeing matter as "less than......."  I like the Tantric view of the world - it's all Divine.  It's all a play of the Divine, including our attachment.  We're God playing 'Hide and go seek'.  I certainly have more happiness and joy as I learn to be more open and less stuck on my attachments.    I do see that I've interpreted detachment as not engaged where it may be the opposite, allowing more engagement.  The prison of self obsession is a cruel and familiar one to me and, it seems, to most of us. Aging seems to have helped, yes! Thank you again for your open and kind response.  May we all be happy and live in ease and joy!  Blessings!

Hello David.  What would you like to share with me?

Beautiful and insightful article... yet not all attachment is bad.   It is the play of life to be attached to those we love deeply.   I've always felt we come here to be attached, to stumble and fall and to rise again.  When does non-attachment become disassociated, not fully in the body and in life?  I remember a reporter described Ramana Maharshi as a dead man walking.  I'm glad he did that for us and lived beyond, beyond, beyond.  It is not my path to be a dead woman walking, however.  I'm here to play the human game...stumbling on rejoicing or bitching as the case may be.  I think there is a balance and art in discovering when attachment is poisonous or unhealthy and when it  is a healthy human experience.  That is certainly my journey and story...and I love a good story!  Lovingly Yours!