-- Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, from "Roaring Silence: Discovering
the Mind of Dzogchen", published by Shambhala Publications and Snow Lion
Publications.
+~
+Detachment doesn't mean "throw it away" or "don’t have feelings
+about it." It definitely does not mean denying or obstructing the mind's
+natural tendency to project. Imagine you are about to go into a cotton
+factory. Before entering you pour glue all over your body, and then you
+demand, "I don’t want any cotton balls to stick to my body, but I won’t
+remove the glue from my body either." Then you enter the cotton factory.
+Of course the glue, by its nature, makes cotton balls stick to you. In
+meditative language, that kind of stickiness is called deliberation or
+fabrication, and here we call it the state of nondetachment. The state of
+nondetachment is when you get entangled and you make the story line similar to
+that of a daytime soap opera in which four characters go on for twenty years.
+It keeps on multiplying and you exaggerate the situation. You create a state
+in your mind that is full of grasping, clinging, and attachment.
+ -- Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche from "The Healing Power of Meditation: Leading
+ Experts on Buddhism, Psychology, and Medicine Explore the Health Benefits
+ of Contemplative Practice", edited by Andy Fraser, published by Shambhala
+ Publications and Snow Lion Publications.