Detachment 4 - reality

I begin to see that detachment is so hard because it deals strictly with reality and not the fakery stories we tell ourselves are reality.  We tell ourselves that this or that will make us happy, or giving up this or that will make us happy, but if you can never be too rich or too thin can either of those things make you happy?  We live our lives running after the things that have no real value and so can not make us happy.  We get a little more money and power or whatever we pursue and get a little kick that never lasts so we have to chase after more and more of whatever it is we think we lack.  Our life becomes the chase.

Detachment is stopping the chase or at least it starts there.  We stop running and sit at the feet of the Master and drink in what truly satisfies.  But to do this we have to let go of our ideas of ourselves.  We don't throw them away we just let them go.  We aren't rejecting the idea of being the best whatever or the most we just let go of it and let it drop to the ground.