Desire and Attachment

Desire does not require attachment, however, attachment does require desire, or even disgust.  Resistance to a symbol (disgust) often creates the same attachment as desire. Attachment enmeshes us within Existence.  It firmly establishes a certain perspective due to the decisions made in order to have that attachment.  Attachments reinforce the illusion of separation.  Desirous attachment, or revulsion and disgust of a symbol and its associations creating similar attachment, is a result of perceptual changes through discrimination causing more illusions through magnification of some symbols, associations and relationships while diminishing others.

Attachment forms due to associations and choices made with regard to symbols and relationships.  I previously stated, “Because a symbol is a proxy for something else, and that something else is a proxy for something else, and so on, the values are the same because they are all the same thing. We can only interact with the symbol and it’s association within our perception rather than the actual thing.”  In order to have an attachment, certain values are attributed to the symbol, or associations are made, relative to other symbols that establish a perception of value greater or less than others.  This valuation is made upon the symbols and associations themselves, or upon the illusion as if it were real.

Attachment demands that we disavow the knowledge that symbols have the same value.  This disavowment creates new symbols, relationships and associations.  We may say that here lies good and evil, or the sacred and the profane.

Abjuration of Nonexistence is a process of disgust and desire.  Attachment, however, determines the value of something through symbols, their associations and their relationships while perceiving only a narrow range of the symbols and associations.  Separation is necessary with desire; more separation is made for disgust; associations of desire and disgust create structure and further separation; organization of those structures promote the perception of more separation;  attachment nurtures greater separation and enhances the illusion.