Comments on: forget what you call it

By: Imelda

Imelda — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:09:23 +0000

Thank you Karen!

By: Katie Murphy

Katie Murphy — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:29:03 +0000

Stunning. Love. Thank you!

By: ariane

ariane — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:18:05 +0000

Thank you Karen for this beautiful, beautiful post. Clear and sincere, as always. A source of inspiration for today, when I´m on the way of making a change!!!
It´s so difficult to let ego go!!!

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:17:42 +0000

So beautiful- this belongs on our fridge (although it’s pretty darn cluttered as it is right now- a sign of my cluttered life?) I am probably way overthinking this, but I wonder about being attached/non-attached when it comes to love for my children. For instance, if something were to happen to them, would I just be able to hurt and then not hurt and move on? This is a stumbling block for me, but I’m sure it’s more of a “not getting it” than anything else.

I really hope to attend one of your retreats. (Oops- I think that’s attachment too? Gosh-it’s hard,except when it’s easy….)Well, in any case, my ego really really wants to attend one of your retreats! Soon!

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:49:38 +0000

As someone who loves stories, I respond best to stories, and that little anecdote about your daughter told me more than the definitions. Maybe my mind still thinks like a child. I understand the story. The words and the definitions just makes me want to ask, “Why? Why? Why?” like a bratty twelve year old boy. While I understand intellectually what you are saying about attachment, ego, etc., I don’t even know where to begin with that information. Granted, being too attached to people and objects, or being self-absorbed is bad for you. Who’s going to disagree? I think most people are on board with the negative stuff. It is the positive concepts that require stepping into another zone. True self? Non-attachment, like nature itself? I just don’t see it. I feel very rooted in the physical world, where we all have urges and struggles within us, and the Western idea of morality — the Golden rule — “Don’t do unto others…” is the best we have come up with so far.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:49:57 +0000

sometimes I just follow a trail from one of your posts back through the highlighted links. A trail of words leading to just the treasure I need. You wrote, months before my son was born, more than a year before your book arrived in the mail:
“It’s never too late to be the new mother of your own life.”

On a day of relentless tantrums and tears (my son’s and mine), at a time of preoccupation with the second child we almost certainly will not have (but everyone else seems to be having), these words went straight to the refrigerator door. The phantom second child is so much about wanting a second chance to do it right, do it better, not mess up, not be a mess. But I get that chance every minute, every day. As for everyone else . . . . Attachment, envy, ego.

By: kathleen

kathleen — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:28:17 +0000

thank you for re-posting this – please repost again, and again, and again..
so we don’t forget
x

By: Rhea

Rhea — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:14:51 +0000

Thank you for re-posting, Maezen.

By: Swirly

Swirly — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:36:33 +0000

{Thank you}

By: Earth Mama

Earth Mama — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:24:06 +0000

What a great post. I love the humor in it and the beautiful recollection of the time and space spent with your daughter. To leave it all behind can be such a big leap of faith, but it is one we are all bound into in some way or another…for truth.

Lisa