Interest, too, is an attachment.

#attachment #lettinggo

‘All that is mine, beloved and pleasing, will become otherwise, will become separated from me.’

True or false?

#Buddhism #Dhamma #attachment #Theravada #BuddhistWisdom #Dharma

BDG feature: The First Blue Sky: The Paradox of Perception and Reality

🔗 Read more: https://tinyurl.com/5n7masnd

#Buddhism #Buddha #BuddhistPractice #Mindfulness #Algorithm #Illusion #Ego #RealityCheck #Courage #TruthSeeker #Attachment #Aversion

When there’s physical birth, notice how it makes us seem separate. We’re not physically joined to each other, are we? ...

#Buddhism #Dhamma #attachment #Theravada #BuddhistWisdom #Dharma

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

AN 10.91 Kāmabhogīsutta: Pleasure Seekers

“These ten pleasure seekers are found in the world.…”

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#attachment #family #wealth #AnguttaraNikaya #Theravada #PaliCanon #RealBuddhaQuotes #Suttas #Dhamma #Buddhism #Buddha

What will it feel like in the future to lose access to LLMs?

I found this a very evocative phrase from AI 2027, albeit describing a fictitious AGI-level LLM in the near future:

For these users, the possibility of losing access to Agent-5 will feel as disabling as having to work without a laptop plus being abandoned by your best friend.

This is why we urgently need qualitative research into LLM attachment, including beyond those cases which are self-evidently pathological. What is the nature of this attachment? How does it feel to the attached user? What are the downstream consequences for society and culture of the attachment?

#AI2027 #attachment #LLMs

New publication:

https://academic.oup.com/sf/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/sf/soaf157/8267020

When expectations backfire: educational differences in declining destination attachment among recent immigrants

#migration #education #immigrationParadox #wellbeing #publication #attachment

BDG feature: A Buddhist Response to Global Unrest

🔗 Read more: https://tinyurl.com/pjj53ahr

#Buddhism #EngagedBuddhism #Commentary #Anget #Compassion #Attachment #Aversion #Buddha #Bodhisattva #FourNobleTruths #NobleEightfoldPath #Happiness #Politics

I liked this alternative frame: attachment theory to understand young peoples’ relationships to their devices.

https://doi.org/10.1093/cs/cdac007

#attachment #socialmedia #media #digitalebildung #edtech

Quote of the day, 21 September: St. Titus Brandsma

Without poverty, a religious is a Pharisee, a gentleman of ease pretending to be a poor man. It is like someone who wants only the finer things of life disguising himself in the clothing of the poor. When religious are overly attached to unnecessary possessions or are always looking for luxuries, then we appear ridiculous before the Lord who received our vows.

Whenever someone comes seeking alms, give whatever you can. Giving alms is our way of life. It is the alms we receive that provide for our needs, and with our own alms, we must provide for those in need.  Whatever we give to the poor we give to God.

Saint Titus Brandsma

Chapter VI, Seeking God

Arribas O.Carm., M 2021, The Price of Truth: Titus Brandsma, Carmelite, Carmelite Media, Darien, Illinois.

Featured image: The United States nonprofit organization Feed My Starving Children visited Nicaragua in March 2011. To date, the Ortega regime has revoked the non-profit status of over 5000 non-governmental, non-profit organizations, including those funded by the Catholic Church who partnered with Feed My Starving Children. Since 2018, Catholic schools and universities have been seized, diocesan bank accounts have been frozen, religious congregations have been expelled, and their property confiscated. Yet the poor who relied on their assistance remain in Nicaragua. Image credit: Feed My Starving Children / Flickr (Some rights reserved).

#almsgiving #attachment #needy #poverty #religiousLife #StTitusBrandsma

What is the relationship between connection and attachment when people come together at meetings? A painting by John Singer Sargent offers a clue.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/connection-2/2022/10/connection-attachment

#meetings #connection #attachment #learning #relationships #meditation

What owning a #cat does to your brain (and theirs) #Attachment #neuroscience https://theconversation.com/what-owning-a-cat-does-to-your-brain-and-theirs-264396?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

The 4 main attachment styles. Do you have any of these? #attachmentstyle #attachment (Kati Morton) https://yr.pyme.ch/MpZB7wSCugE

In an interview, Lauren Berlant emphasizes and maintains that cruel optimism is not the object itself, but rather the relationship:
"A relation of cruel optimism is a double-bind in which your attachment to an object sustains you in life at the same time as that object is actually a threat to your flourishing. So you can't say that there are objects that have the quality of cruelty or not cruelty, it's how you have the relationship to them. Like it might be that being in a couple is not a relation of cruel optimism for you, because being in a couple actually makes you feel like you have a grounding in the world, whereas for other people, being in a couple might be, on the one hand, a relief from loneliness, and on the other hand, the overpresence of one person who has to bear the burden of satisfying all your needs. So it's not the object that's the problem, but how we learn to be in relation."

https://societyandspace.com/material/interviews/interview-with-lauren-berlant/

#psychology #sociology #attachment #optimism #beliefs #faith #hope #Berlant #LaurenBerlant

#catHumour #IndependentCats #attachment

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As a facilitator, working with both sides of an issue with a group can be hard. Doing so challenges me to practice non-attachment.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/facilitation/2023/03/working-with-both-sides

#facilitation #moderation #attachment #WinLose #WinWin #MeetingDesign #assnchat

“The near enemy of love is #attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person (because I need something from them).” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want.” This isn’t the fullness of love. Instead there is attachment—there is clinging and fear. True love allows, honors, and appreciates; attachment grasps, demands, needs, and aims to possess.”
― Brené Brown

#desire #love #relationships #quotes #BrenéBrown

ジョン スメドレー×アタッチメント“洗練ハイゲージニット”のカーディガン＆クルーネックニット
https://www.fashion-press.net/news/137664?media=line

#fashionpress #ジョン_スメドレー #JOHN_SMEDLEY #アタッチメント #ATTACHMENT #ファッション #アイテム #ウール #キャメル #ミニマル #アタッチメント_六本木ヒルズ #ATTACHMENT_RoppongiHills #アタッチメント_ギンザシックス #ATTACHMENT_GINZA_SIX #アタッチメント_表参道ヒルズ #ATTACHMENT_Omotesando_Hills

Buddhistdoor feature: The Future of Religion

🔗 Read more at BDG: https://tinyurl.com/34jm4k9u

#Buddhism #BuddhistPractice #Dharma #DharmaTalk #JungtoSociety #PomnyunSunim #Zen #Seon #Singapore #SouthKorea #KoreanBuddhism #Attachment #Happiness #Mindfulness #YoungPeople

_Ethical responsibility_

Incest is settled by a perverse disconnect between words and deeds.
According to Cécile Cée, ‘the situation does not depend on what the victim has to say about it, but on what society should say about it’ (p. 181). Once the act of naming is not:
* the result of interpersonal negotiation (to what extent may I call incest what the victim does not designate as such?),
* but rather a collective statement (‘It is up to society, to third parties, to you, to enunciate,’ p. 182), which alone can ‘put the world back the right way up’ (p. 227),
* then we move away from individual conscience and into the realm of social and political ethical responsibility.

@socialpsych @ethics 🧶

#community #relationships #ethology #anthropology #family #domesticViolence #parenthood #denial #incest #incestCulture #patriarchy #publicHealth #mentalHealth #acquaintance #taboo #attachment #invisibility #kinship #incest #ethics #responsiblity #involvement #CélineCée #book