No Strings Attached

"My husband, who is very open to Buddhism, kind of hit a wall with the concept of non-attachment. The whole idea seems cold to him, as though the Buddha were saying that we should not fully love someone in order to avoid getting hurt someday. I tried to explain about grasping, and how we shouldn't feel we

to have someone in order to be happy, and he got pretty insulted. The unspoken question was, "So, if I died, you'd be okay with it?"

	More on Attachment Vipassana teacher Sharon Salzberg on the pitfalls of clinging to the people and things we love. Plus: Monk Thanissaro Bhikkhu on the attachments that matter.

"Many, if not all, of the problems in my relationships with my loved ones arise when one or the other of us gets attached to some particular fixed idea about the way things ought to be. The problem here is my attachment to my fantasy of how things should be and how it blinds me to how things really are."

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