2007-10-12 02:41:29 · 9 answers · asked by Rita 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Love, affection and attachment are 3 interrelated entities that often appear as a group.
Love is the best. Affection is superior to attachment but inferior to love and attachment is the lowest of the 3.
Attachment makes one dependent on others, somewhat selfish as one keeps expectations from others. When one gets angry on the one whom one 'loves' it is usually the attachment part of the trio that is present is responding to unfulfilled expectations from the other.
However affection and controlled attachments help nourish, breed and grow "Love".
I can't think of people in love who do not have affection or were not having attachment.
So all are required. But exercise attachment and affection with control and express Love with control.
That makes the formula of the 'trio' tasty and admirable.
To answer your question explicitly the answer is 'Yes'.
However just like the platonic world is not achievable in reality so it is very rare and difficult to find a 'true love' devoid of 'attachments'. Love that is devoid of attachment(s) is the true love. But one can start loving and let one's love get matured and purified and refined over time where one's love slowly becomes devoid of attachments.
The above approach of the gradual development of 'Love' has an advantage that if the other person is not found to be suitable to receive the 'true love' then one can stop prior to sacrificing a lot in true love.
I hope you like my frank and informative answer.
2007-10-13 01:13:45 · answer #1 · answered by James 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi Rena,
I've never really thought about it in that way even though I have considered 'attachment' a lot and done a lot of research into it in the past. Forming attachments is so very important in early relationships and the mother/baby bonding, even the father/baby bonding formed very early on will influence the child's relationship with parents and even peers for the rest of their life. Does attachment bind the energy of the human spirit to something other than love? When I think of the strong bonds I have in my life I think I have to say yes. There is something spiritual and psychic there too. Thanks for the question and making me think about something I've often thought of in a different way.
Pollyanna
2007-10-12 09:54:26 · answer #2 · answered by pollyanna 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe the 'energy of the human spirit' is attached to all kinds of emotions, not just love. Don't you feel drained after an angry outburst? A spell of crying your heart out? In fact all the negative emotions leave you listless except maybe hatred in some which motivates them to destructive action.
Love or pleasurable anticipation, on the other hand, suffuse you with unlimited energy, if I may say so...
2007-10-12 10:49:04 · answer #3 · answered by P'quaint! 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
interesting stuff. surly children are of the same spirit from their parents and this can be seen as unconditional love, it is hard to find and to give this love freely to others. I now think that this unconditional thing and the joining of the spirit does bind the energy of the human spirit in something else other than love.....I`d need more time to mull it over I think
2007-10-12 10:14:57 · answer #4 · answered by finn mchuil 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nah. I think it's a form of love when human spirits attach to one another. I would never have believed it possible until I experienced it first hand... but you know.. here many of us are bound together with love in our hearts and minds... connected spirits.
2007-10-12 09:47:17 · answer #5 · answered by Icy Gazpacho 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think the human spirit attaches itself to anything that takes its fancy when embodied. That is why we keep coming back.
And as Love is sought inside of human bodies, we keep coming back even for this reason.
Those who have seen that Love is to be found, not in any particular human being, but existing as quite seperate of themselves in themselves and in all, are not bound.
2007-10-12 10:10:53 · answer #6 · answered by shades of Bruno 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes i agree!....their are other forms that humans must have beside love!...and attachment requires those forms to rise!
~have a nice day~
RoChEr
2007-10-12 10:57:07 · answer #7 · answered by RoChEr 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This attachment only brings us back to earth.to fulfill it. It may be a desire /, relationship.
2007-10-12 12:56:08 · answer #8 · answered by Muthu S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I think so don't you? My Dear
2007-10-13 08:33:40 · answer #9 · answered by oneglook 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋