Freedom From Attachment

 

Pupil: Do we return to this Earth as we journey from change to change?

MIRDAD: The law of Time is repetition. What once occurred in Time? Is bound to reoccur again and again. The intervals, in the case of man, may be long or brief. Depending on the intensity of each man's desire and will for repetition.

When you pass out of the cycle known as Life into the cycle known as Death and carry with you thirsts unquenched for the Earth and hungers unappeased for her passions, then will the magnet of the Earth draw you again to her bosom. And the Earth shall suckle you, and Time shall wean you, Life after Life and Death after Death, until you wean yourself, once and for all, of your own will and accord.

Pupil: I would be weaned away forever from the Earth. How can I do it, Master?

MIRDAD: By loving the Earth and all her children. When Love is the only residue of all your accounts with the Earth, then will the Earth acquit you of her debt.

Pupil: But Love is attachment, and attachment is bondage.

MIRDAD: Nay, Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you Love everything, you are attached to nothing.

Excerpted from “Where Do We Go After We Die?”, Chapter Twenty in “The Book of Mirdad” by Mikhail Naimy (pp. 97-98)

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