Taking the Ache Out of Attachment

Venerable Thubten Chodron leads a guided meditation on recognizing attachment, a state of mind that exaggerates the good qualities of an object and clings to it. Learn more from her book "Guided Buddhist Meditations" published by Shambhala Publications.

Reviews

There seems to be a dividing line between attachment and loving which isn’t easy to identify. Is it that attachment focuses on what I need and loving is concerned with the needs of the other person?

Love this meditation and the calming wise voice! I have huge attachment issues and listen to it often whenever I feel it’s creeping up on me

Thank you for these gentle exploring reflective questions.

Few words... But so much wisdom
Thank you universe for making me listen to this today
#grateful

This was so divinely guided and divinely required in the moment it has landed so deep! So blessed and grateful! Thank you!

Gentle and powerful guidance that aids insight and reflection… with gratitude 🙏

Freeing! The more I held onto my attachment, I see I was living more in darkness & plenty of self induced suffering than the light I was looking for! Thank you for the way in which this meditation is set up, to examine during the pauses.♡

Wow! Hits very close to home. Excellent insight into how attachments lead to suffering

A great way to detox from
unhealthy actions and thoughts 💭💝

Very hard experience, but it was just what I needed.

Very insightful and just what I needed to hear about my attachments.

Attachment. An important reflection subject. I like how she shares her concepts and pauses so that you have time to go inward and answer the question, ponder and or take inventory. A lesson in real time as well as further investigation later. Thank you.

Thank you for clearly unpacking how pedastooling leads to unrealistic expectations and clinging.

These teachings are wonderful. Thank you 🙏 🧘🏻‍♂️

Great - appreciate the many periods of silence to allow for reflection 🙏🏽

Thank you for balancing the nafs of self belief

This meditation gently helped me to understand the mistakes I made. Thank you for that. However, there remains a deep feeling of guilt and of worthlessness I am not able to deal with...

A wise meditative inventory on our relationship with attachment.

A vert useful guidance for me to explore and be with my attachment to the idea of ‘perfectionism’. Thank you 🙏

Just what I needed to start my day. 🙏🏻