Connection vs Attachment

Your physical identity is a wave on the ocean of life.

Everyone you meet is also a wave arising from the same ocean.

What you perceive of each other through the physical senses is temporary - a cresting and falling manifestation; and yet never for one instant disconnected from the ocean that sends it forth.

One wave you encounter as parent, another as sibling, another as friend, lover, acquaintance, passing stranger, etc.

However seemingly significant or insignificant the encounter, there is eternal momentum behind each and every connection before you become conscious of it in a physical form.

Even while it appears that your physical body over there is looking at my physical body over here, there is a non-physical but very real thread of connection that holds us together.

You have a built-in knowing of this.

When you shift your focus from the outward to the inward, you begin to reawaken this awareness and to feel the tangible here-and-now-reality of your connection with everyone and everything - including those waves who have dissolved back into the ocean that binds the connection.

The more aware you are moment-to-moment of your connection to the Ocean, the less likely you are to cling to the waves.

Your conscious awareness of connection then frees you from the enslaving habit of attachment.

If ever there was liberation, this is it.