Ted Gresham – August 2025 I am one of the best goof-offs in Texas. I blow days without even batting an eye. Today, I was floating some ideas in my head, but not getting very far. I’m trying to find access to information about when I was a kid in school and some of that…
Ted Gresham – August 2025 Hello, neighbor. Here I am again. Now, remind me why I’m hereā¦ oh yeahā¦ I just placed my books on the main page of this website. I want you to buy my books. I want you to read them. I want you to feel excited, enthralled, heartbroken, and experience all…
Ted Gresham – August 2025 It’s getting easier to skip past all of those damn political YouTubes.Clearly the country is going to hell. People are being killed and destroyed. But there’s nothing I can do about it.It’s up to those who are younger and stronger to stand up or not. My wife and I will…
Ted Gresham – July 2025 The conclusion of my ‘what the hell’ page went so: “Anyway, thanks for stopping by early. Bookmark and come back. You will be glad you did.” Will you? Hell, I don’t know. I hope so. It’s a slow slog trying to write out my bio. not only is it long…
Ted Gresham – July 2025 There’s something wrong. Time will NOT slow down! What the fuck? I can’t seem to keep up. It’s like I am moving through a fog of molasses. Arg. I have not gotten nearly as far as I have wanted to. I still have loads of pictures to sort out, all…
Ted Gresham – July 2025 Today I am torn between the desire to be political, the need to start actually riding my biography, Or the necessity of searching through the photographs that I have scanned. Politics would rule my life if I let it. It would also rip me apart. I had to quit but…
In Buddhism, attachment does not mean love, affection, or caring about people. Instead, it refers to a very specific mental habit: clinging ā the tight, grasping insistence that things, people, or experiences must be a certain way for us to feel secure.
Buddhism teaches that this clinging is a major cause of dukkha (suffering), because everything is impermanent ā and trying to hold on tightly to what constantly changes inevitably leads to pain.
Attachment is:
Buddhism identifies four main types of attachment:
These forms of clinging keep us stuck in the cycle of suffering and rebirth (saį¹sÄra).
Attachment is not:
Buddhist teachers emphasize that you can love deeply without clinging. Love becomes suffering only when it turns into fear, control, or dependency.
As one source puts it:
āBuddhism does not ask you to stop holding. It asks you to stop squeezing.ā
Attachment creates suffering because:
This mismatch between desire and reality is the root of dukkha.
Non-attachment means:
It is freedom, not emotional coldness.