False Transcendence & True Detachment ...

The more spiritually aware you become, the more sentimentality falls away and transforms your experience of loving. The experience of love does become less personal and more universal. This does not mean that you necessarily lose the poignant love you have your for children and loved ones, but it does not have the same stickiness and identification surrounding it. In this sense there is a natural quality of detachment from the negativity of ego and ego’s attachment to drama and suffering.

One can, however, become attached to the transcendent state of detachment (now there’s a paradox). The symptom of this happening is when you begin to feel apart from, or separate from others in such a way that your detached transcendence becomes a barrier to being truly present. This is actually a false transcendence, a defense against the challenges of life and relating in an authentic way.
In the end, everything is revealed to be a seamless unity, and life is experienced as an intimacy with all of existence. True detachment is absolute intimacy.


~Adyashanti