Discover Compassion Meditation
Dealing with Attachment
Glen Svensson · 72 minutes
Attachment is the near enemy of loving kindness, and Glen Svensson defines it as a mental factor that exaggerates an object's attractiveness and wants to hold on to it. In the guided practice you bring to mind a person or thing you cling to, loosen the grip, then look directly at the attachment itself. Glen dispels the common misconceptions that attachment is needed to enjoy things, to have relationships or to be creative, describing how ordinary food grew tastier during a long retreat as his craving subsided.
Attachment and craving Buddhist psychology Relationships and family Compassion (karuna) Equanimity Loving kindness (metta) The four immeasurables Vipashyana (insight)