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Dear Sensei,
I’ll say it again. I LOVE these videos. They are extremely philosophical. When you phrase your questions beginning with “What” and “How”, I really do begin an inquiry process of my own to investigate your teachings. I enjoy musing over possible answers to your questions.
These videos always feel adventurous for me when I watch them. I find myself going on a journey with you to find the “root” of something. I never really thought of pleasure being related to attachment before I saw this. Now I am off thinking about hedonism in all of it’s various forms.
Thanks for what you said about substances including alcohol and coffee. After I started working in social work, and also because of personal family history, I decided alcohol as an industry and substance is an attachment I wish not to support. I have witnessed too much suffering in connection to it. So, I made a conscious choice to give it up forever. I truly have noticed many pay-offs and rewards such as attracting like-minded people who know how to have a good time without it.
I noticed in the beginning especially, the social consequences to avoiding beer/wine/liquor. Then, I truly started to see how attachment to such substances is part of the thread sewn into our cultural fabric as many people schedule their life events around where the next kegger is or where the next wine party will be.
Thanks for this today. It’s so great to be able to click in and know that I will be investing 10 minutes of my time and engaging with quality material.
Your thoughts always influence my life for the better and I often think about what you say for days after.
Sincerely,
Peedee
Dear Daniel,
All videos are presented as present to humanity.
The tensegrity that has been made by your ability to speak, and the rising agrevation of the coughing student, developed in me such an intent to listen to you more deeply, and watch clearly my own attachments, and to evidence how much i use them as drugs, as paIN killers.
thank you.
Thank you for sharing these thoughts. I think about attachment a lot. It’s nice to hear someone else’s thoughts on the subject!