The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World
don Miguel Ruiz Jr
Language: English
Pages: 176
ISBN: 1938289455
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This is a book that picks up where The Four Agreements left off. Building on the principles found in his father's bestselling book, Ruiz, Jr. explores the ways in which we attach ourselves inappropriately to beliefs and the world.
Ruiz explores the five levels of attachment that cause suffering in our lives. The levels are:
- Authentic Self
- Preference
- Identification
- Internalization
- Fanaticism
Accessible and practical, Ruiz's exploration invites us to look at our own lives and see how an unhealthy level of attachment can keep us trapped in a psychological and spiritual fog. He then invites us to reclaim our true freedom by cultivating awareness, detaching, and discovering our true selves.
subplots that are developing on their own. It is like taking a sip of wine and saying, “It's a bit dry; it has definitely aged well, but I can taste the bark. I've had better.” Instead of simply experiencing the joy and flavors of the wine, we are analyzing the flavor, trying to break it down and fit it into a context and language we already know. In doing this, we miss out on much of the actual experience. This is a simple example of how we narrate life— explaining it, but, more importantly,
In this book, I will teach you the Five Levels of Attachment. They are guideposts for gauging how attached you are to your own point of view, as well as how open you are to other opinions and possibilities. As the level of attachment increases, one's identity, the “who I am,” becomes more directly linked with knowledge, or the “what I know.” Knowledge and the information we perceive are distorted and corrupted by our narrators—the voices of our thoughts that debate the rightness or wrongness of
intent. You are worthy of your own forgiveness, as much as you are worthy of your own love. At this point in this exercise, you have let go of the past by recognizing that the only thing that exists is this present moment. The labyrinth itself is now the past, and you can let it go as you forgive yourself. With awareness, you can now draw the knowledge from your past to make choices in the present moment. The labyrinth expands as you live your life, but the only truth is in that center, that
called “Controlled Folly.” This mastery cannot be started without first becoming aware of our own truth, and the Five Levels of Attachment are an instrument that allow us to see our present truth with more clarity. As we begin to reconstruct our Personal Dream with greater awareness into our personal great work of art (which is always in progress), we have the ability to choose to create the most perfect harmony, if that is our desire. In the end, it is all about seeing knowledge as the building
Mills, for your guidance and the continuous push for the essence of the word. I want to pay tribute to all of my schoolteachers who taught me how to use knowledge, especially Jean-Pierre Gorin, for teaching me how to tell a story; Catalina Heredia, for believing in me and teaching me how to learn analytically; and my Theory of Knowledge teacher, Maria Esther Rodriguez Ruvalcaba, for reminding me that I really don't know anything. All of my love and respect to my father's students who were also