Attachment Is the Root Of Suffering BUT Is It Really?

Have you ever heard the popular quote by Buddha:

“The Root of Suffering is Attachment”?

It is highly possible that most of the self help books out there that have become popular, are written by masculine men, or women with a masculine essence.

I feel like this quote by the Buddha is true.

BUT the opposite is also true.

The root of ecstasy is ALSO Attachment.

You could try telling any of my three sons who loved their breast milk that the root of all suffering is Attachment when he latches on for a feed. It wouldn’t work, though.

I believe this advise comes from a masculine soul, and whilst a woman would also notice that this advice may be true, the problem is that it doesn’t make us grow and become more free in the core of our feminine energy.

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The Masculine Energy Seeks To Feel EMPTY

The masculine essence has to push aside love to feel empty.

Every woman has experienced a man pulling away. This is mainly because pulling away allows the man to feel empty or to achieve or to pursue his life’s purpose.

He forgets that you’re still attached. And this hurts us as women.

And yet – to feel empty would allow the masculine soul to achieve.

To achieve is a wonderful thing for masculine human beings. Without it, they get less respect, which they crave.

So in a way, this advice to remove our attachment to people and to things serves the masculine soul.

In SOME cases, it does serve women – perhaps women who really do need to detach and come out of a relationship where they feel hurt (or have gotten hurt). Detachment is valuable in this way too, for women.

But if you spent too much time on this masculine extreme and don’t allow yourself to attach to the right people and to good things, it starts to destroy our feminine soul.

CONNECTION Is The Lifeblood Of The Feminine.

Feminine energy needs connection to exist. Connection makes us feel alive in our femininity.

Yet with connection comes attachment of some sort (for us women). Tell me if this isn’t true for you?

Masculine energy does not grow through connection. Masculine men, if they are true to their soul, need to detach in order to pursue their life’s purpose.

For example: men who meditate for hours, days, months, maybe YEARS on end with no contact with their girlfriend or wife.

It hurts the wife, but it certainly may not hurt the man. That detachment is necessary for the man to grow in his masculine essence.

For any man to be attractive – to be the kind of man that makes women swoon, he has to show up with incredible presence.

This presence is only trained in to a man who has had enough emptiness, enough challenges and enough detachment to pursue his achievements. So I really respect that detachment serves masculine men a great deal. It’s healthy for them.

As such, Buddha’s advice may speak to a person who is masculine at their core, and serve that person.

However, if you are a woman and if you do take a lot of self help advice, try to be careful what you listen to.

It’s ok to choose carefully what advice would serve you most of the time, and what advice would serve you in only a select few cases. For example, this quote suggesting that attachment causes suffering by Buddha might help you heal from an abusive relationship.

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Attachment To Negative Emotional Patterns Create Suffering.

Whilst some say that attachment is the root of all suffering, that’s actually not true.

Attachment may make you suffer – but so does detachment (especially if you’re a feminine woman!)

What I believe creates suffering is actually attachment to our negative emotional patterns of survival. These negative emotional patterns of survival are what is ingrained in to our nervous system through interactions with our parents by the time we are very small – some experts say around 2 years old.

For example, if you were abused as a child, then what feels safe (allows you to survive in your environment) to you might be a man who has a potential for abusing you. It might hurt you, but at least it’s safe. So your nervous system believes.

If what was ingrained in to you was a pattern of distance – then you’d feel safest when keeping a certain distance from people.

I wrote an article on the 12 secret reasons people will always be distant from you. You can read it here.

I believe that our negative patterns for SURVIVAL aren’t always designed for connection with humans, and this connection is truly what you crave, if you are a woman with a feminine essence.

Some people have developed a pattern of survival that means they are safest when connecting with people, and if that is you, then that is a much better pattern than the pattern of safety through abuse.

So, as women, we may get attached to a man in a relationship that is bad quality. But it’s not our attachment to the man that creates suffering, it’s our attachment to our own negative patterns of seeking approval in order to survive. Or it’s attachment to the pattern of abuse that actually causes our suffering.

Of course, there are other types of negative patterns too, but we can talk about those another time.

The Root Of Ecstasy Is Also Attachment!

There is every bit of ecstasy in Attachment. I feel ecstasy when I am one with my husband, and I feel ecstasy when loving, connecting and sharing with my sons.

I feel ecstasy when sharing vulnerability with a close girlfriend. But that ecstasy cannot come without attachment.

No attachment is permanent. This is true. But if it was permanent, we wouldn’t know the ecstasy of it. We’d take it for granted.

Related post: What to Do If He Takes You for Granted

Nothing we experience is permanent. But I feel that I would rather have the ecstasy of attachment than to detach, as long as the people and things I am attaching to are at least somewhat willing to be as vulnerable as me.

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(Why is this important? It is because your core attachment style largely dictates and influences what happens in your relationship. Thus it’s imperative you understand your core attachment style!) 

Detaching Does Not END Suffering

To think that this quote by Buddha (the root of all suffering is attachment) assumes that detaching would end that suffering, is what is erroneous. 

Perhaps Buddha means that you need to acknowledge that things are transient.

In my bias, I feel like detachment might end our suffering, but only if we ALSO end our own negative emotional patterns of what feels safe.

And this advice would hold no truth to the person who is in love anyway.

Why? Because they are too attached and this is a wonderful thing. Who wants to die, not having experienced being madly in love? That kind of ecstasy brings attachment with it.

With that attachment comes a thing called pair bonding. With pair bonding comes a strong relationship that allows this couple to raise happy, healthy children.

The Danger Of Following A Masculine Path…

It would hurt us even more if we were to simply try to detach and take a very masculine path in our lives ON TOP OF not noticing and breaking our negative patterns that we developed to ensure safety from a very young age.

For me personally, to detach would ruin who I am at my core.

To detach, in many instances (not all), would mean I’d have to deny love and the beauty of connection in many moments.

It would be me actively denying who I really am.

And that would perpetuate me wearing masks to cover who I truly am, or to protect myself when to let go of the armour would give me connection with others.

And I would be wearing that mask of fake masculinity to deal with my fear of abandonment or pain that comes with attachment.

Related: Abandonment Issues: The Definitive Guide To Test & Overcome Fear Of Abandonment.

That would essentially hurt anyone with a feminine core. You’d be living a life that you THINK is ‘great’, but inside, you’d feel that something is missing.

It’s kind of like this: let’s say that as a little girl, you wanted a rainbow coloured tutu, ballet shoes and a sparkly halo for Christmas just for the pure joy of experiencing being feminine light itself, because that is the core of you.

Only then to have a parent decide that that isn’t for you – and instead your mother or father buys you a science book because they felt you were better served by ‘being an achiever’ or by being a scientist one day.

While that science book may have come in handy and you might have an interest in being a scientist – the truth is that if you have a feminine essence, then you would feel more ecstasy and you’d feel more alive be being gifted the halo and tutu.

It simply would serve you more, because your radiance would grow through those gifts. You’d also experience more excitement and be more connected to other peers of yours if you were given the tutu and the sparkly halo.

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What You Should Do Instead…

Here’s what you should do instead as a feminine soul:

Learn to have the capacity to detach when it is needed. When you find yourself being overly attached to a toxic and abusive relationship, choose to use your ability to detach.

How do you do that?

You choose to eliminate toxic relationships by making the relationship less important in your world.

You make it’s value in your life appear smaller and smaller. You decide that the relationship isn’t of worth to you, because the long-term cost of being around toxic people is too much on your feminine soul.

This isn’t about us women not being able to detach and pursue masculine endeavours.

We can do many of the masculine things in life almost as well as any man can. But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t a cost for us and for our lives.

We might enjoy the empty chase of achievement and significance. But it always has that feeling of ‘something is missing’. Especially if we are denying our true feminine core just to pursue masculine things because we think it’s safer to live our life that way.

Related: How Masculine Jobs Can Affect A Woman’s Beauty And Feminine Energy.

If I may, I would love to try making a suggestion to you.

Try asking yourself: do you feel more ecstatic and alive at the thought of your favourite song coming on and dancing spontaneously to it?

Or do you feel more ecstatic and alive when someone comes over to you and says…

“Hey, I bet you can’t eat that whole jar of wasabi!”.

If you feel like the first thing – dancing your heart away to your favourite song would make you feel more alive and excited, then you probably have a more feminine essence.

And if you have a more feminine essence, then I would suggest to take advice about ‘detaching’ with a grain of salt, for it is only to be used in the right situations.

Don’t turn your back on emotional connection and attachment – this is where your heart truly shines and this is where you can be radiant, alive and free.

Related: How to build emotional connection with a man.

Don’t Let Masculine Ideas Make You Shun The Value Of Attachment

It seems that in our world, masculine people naturally always unintentionally try to get more feminine people to be more like them.

That is, masculine men and women try to make the people around them become more masculine.

And more feminine people try to get a person who is masculine at their core to be more feminine.

This is why we need to be more connected to which self help books and advice are serving our core and which are fostering our masculine energy.

This act of trying to get the opposite sex to be more like us seems to be quite true when you see families where a son or daughter is very out-numbered by siblings of the opposite sex.

For example, a lone son raised by a single mother and 3 sisters! A man like this is often more connected to his feminine, which is great. But it’s no good when this boy who is masculine at heart is made wrong from a young age for seeking out challenges or danger, which naturally foster the growth of his masculine direction and masculine energy.

Never forget that the goal isn’t to ONLY be feminine. As a woman, you need both your feminine energy and your masculine energy is order to live a full life.

Feminine energy is not always the answer in every situation, and it’s not always high value. But you certainly don’t want to force yourself to shun the value of attachment, because remember: attachment is the very root of life as a woman and as a mother.

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