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attachments to files and documents?
This question is something I've long wondered and the reason I came here. When pondering on how much earthly attachments I have. I realized that which I do not want to part with most are that I've put work into, that is, many documents, researches, charts, and stories I've been writing and compiling in my personal time since I was young.
The fear is not losing the physical medium in which they are stored (papers and my flash drive) but losing the access to the stories, as my memory can't hold everything. Yet does this still count as an earthly attachment?
Even worse, is an attachment to my stories to begin with an expression of delusion?
The fear is not losing the physical medium in which they are stored (papers and my flash drive) but losing the access to the stories, as my memory can't hold everything. Yet does this still count as an earthly attachment?
Even worse, is an attachment to my stories to begin with an expression of delusion?
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What about attachment to Holy Books and much other stuff?
IMO, this sort of thing is just natural. Being detached just means being able to let go without a lot of mental anguish. If all a detached person's stuff was lost in, say, a fire, he'd just let it go and not be anything quite like completely overwhelmed or devastated.
That said, taking steps ahead of time to safeguard things from potential loss electronically would not, IMO, mean one was too attached, either. I'd consider people putting invaluable things in safe-deposit boxes and storing things on some Web storage site or whatever not to be clutching, but prudent. In today's world, you may need to produce an electronic copy of a diploma or whatever just to get a job, defend yourself in court, or whatever.
Who had the first libraries? Hmmm. Gosh, I keep seeing monks and scrolls, monks and codices, monks and books. Hmmmm...
Delusions? YOU ARE WORRIED about delusions?
We're ALL deluded. It's part of the fabric of life. Now, our task is to move further away from that delusion and to be more open to reality by opening ourselves to the pure expressions of things that the clouds of our delusions keep out.
But the first baby step forward is first to realize that you're deluded in the first place. However, I doubt that you're half as deluded as I am, you lucky human being!
Maybe send them to yourself in gmail and forget about them. Gmail is very good at handling attachments for you;)