How can we clear our mind so that we can let go of our attachments?

Question

Namaste

Peace and Love

Answer 1

Wow, not an easy question to answer! I have practiced meditation for a long time & finally was given a method or shown how it is possible to live in a state of meditation, but it is a drawn out answer & difficult to explan. Please realize that being shown how does not mean I have achieved that yet, it takes pratice. There is another technique I use a lot, being an observer. I step back in my head, it moves me from total involvement & walking trance to a more detached awareness. When I do this nothing has the same importance as in the so called normal state. It really is possible to practice this to the point that this becomes more of your normal state than the other. It does not mean that you do not love or care, but you are more in the world instead of the world. Thank you for a very interesting question.

Answer 2

Meditation is definitely great for clearing the mind, but I go a step further and release my fears, concerns, and issues to Spirit/Universe. I trust that all will work out for my highest good. (And it always does...)

Namaste

Answer 3

Yoga... and culturing stillness.

As you probably know, Monks, Mystics and Yogis have been doing it for thousands of years. The specifics of how it is done... Chapter 21-22 of Gospel Enigma... an online resource.

Answer 4

The answer from Truith above is quite right, being the Observer rather than the participant in experiences will help relieve many of the problems associated with Upadana..."picking it up", caused by Tanha..."craving"...

Experiencing experiences from the stance of the Observer allows the Consciousness to experience the feelings associated with experiences without picking them up and owning them. Thus Not Owning these feelings, we avoid attachment to them as opposed to "owning" them first and then trying to rid ourselves of them, rather like avoiding snake bite by keeping clear of the sharp bits if you will...we still see the snake...but we avoid its weapons to avoid the consequences of being bitten rather than being bitten and then needing hospitalisation to rid us of the poison.

Clearing the Mind with Meditation helps to settle the Mind...yet it is far better to maintain a clear and settled Mind throughout...rather like keeping a car regularly clean and waxed...you can then clean it in an hour without much effort rather than having to spend days on it when it is neglected..do you follow..?

Regular practise such as being the Observer, changes the way we think from thoughts relating to Self to thoughts relating to Not Self, rather like the regular waxing of the car. The car stays waxed and the dirt does not stick as much, much like the way we think, Self does not impinge as much. Thinking relating thus to Not Self, purposefully and with concentration, reduces much of this "dirt", as it were, used with regular doses of wax...Meditation...will change our consciousness and the way it works..further and further reducing the effects of clinging and attachment...

The Mind gets clearer and stays clearer, further and further we become the Observer and less and less does attachments hold sway...it takes practise, dilligent effort and concentration...meditation helps because it trains us to concentrate...concentrate on the breath....outside our concentration should be on Observation and being the Observer...Observer...Breath...Observer...Breath..thus do we practise and thus will we change...thus is our Path of Right Effort and Right Concentration....

Viriyena dukkhamacceti...Pali for Persistence and Effort this leads us to realise that Sabbe dhamma anatta... all phenomena are not-self which will help us to finally realise the asavakkhaya-ñana — the knowledge of the ending of mental fermentation ....

Persistence and Effort my friend
Persistence and Effort...

A Buddhist...

Answer 5

Meditation and self examination...