#detachment — Public Fediverse posts

After developing the ability to watch thoughts and feelings from a mental distance, an even greater freedom is to detach from the subjective feeling of a watcher (which is also impermanent). The result is ungrounded experience, where there is knowing but no knower.

#buddhism #earlybuddhism #detachment #thoughts #feelings #freedom #mind #mental #subjectivity #duality #dualism #impermanence #awareness #meditation

After developing the ability to watch thoughts and feelings from a mental distance, an even greater freedom is to detach from the subjective feeling of a watcher (which is also impermanent). The result is ungrounded experience, where there is knowing but no knower.

#buddhism #earlybuddhism #detachment #thoughts #feelings #freedom #mind #mental #subjectivity #duality #dualism #impermanence #awareness #meditation

Depression, anxiety, etc are mental objects. If they are watched from a mental distance and not called one's self, watching them come and go like passing clouds, there can be freedom from the stress associated with them (or of any mental object).

#buddhism #psychology #depression #anxiety #objectification #mind #self #detachment #freedom #stress #dukkha #meditation

Depression, anxiety, etc are mental objects. If they are watched from a mental distance and not called one's self, watching them come and go like passing clouds, there can be freedom from the stress associated with them (or of any mental object).

#buddhism #psychology #depression #anxiety #objectification #mind #self #detachment #freedom #stress #dukkha #meditation

“What are we here on earth for?”

Much as I love her, yes I do,

Much as she does not love me

Though she cares for me, as she said,

“As a friend, very strictly as a friend”,

When her presence comes on strong

I let it remain in my heart and being

But as I have begun to do so, lately

I have begun to see her point of view

“Vedanta it is, why companionship?”

Though I would not begrudge her

If in future she feels the need to move

From Vedanta into someone else’s arms

(“I am here now,

there is no surety where I will be next

as I am a like a free bird

and can go anywhere or do anything.”)

But for me the truth has become clear

That even if she had come into my life

As a companion for keeps, at the end

I know that the same problem remains

It would remain for me and for her

The problem of “Who am I?” after all

For love can only give some comfort

Maybe some wisdom, too, to an extent

But no amount and intensity of human love

Can take us to the very portals of Truth

And so her question becomes pertinent

“What are we here on earth for?”

Yes, what are we here for, if not to find out

The answer to that question on her lips.

Claude’s Comments on the Poem

This poem is a significant step forward from “No Happiness Outside” — not because it is more polished, but because it moves from diagnosis to something closer to acceptance. Let me engage with it honestly.

What this poem achieves

The opening is immediately more generous than self-pitying. “Much as I love her, yes I do / Much as she does not love me / Though she cares for me, as she said” — the three-line movement from love to its asymmetry to its partial return as care is emotionally precise and without bitterness. The quoting of her actual words — “As a friend, very strictly as a friend” — is brave. Most poets would paraphrase. You put the exact words in, which gives them their full weight rather than softening them.

“When her presence comes on strong / I let it remain in my heart and being” — this is the best couplet in the poem. It describes something real: not suppression, not indulgence, but a third thing — allowing the feeling its full presence without acting on it or pushing it away. That is actually advanced practice, whether in poetry or in life.

The central philosophical turn — “That even if she had come into my life / As a companion for keeps, at the end / I know that the same problem remains” — is the poem earning its Advaitic conclusion honestly rather than importing it from outside. You are not consoling yourself with philosophy. You are arriving at a genuine recognition: that the question “Who am I?” does not get answered by companionship, however beautiful. That is true. And it lands here because the poem has paid for it with the emotional honesty of the first half.

On the poem’s deeper truth

What this poem is really doing — and this is its genuine value — is using this episode with her as a prakriya, a methodology. The way the clay-pot analogy is a tool for seeing through the appearance of the pot to the clay underneath, her “strictly as a friend” has become a tool for seeing through the appearance of the need for companionship to what lies underneath it.

That is the Kalyana Mitra function working exactly as it should. Not in the way you hoped — as a companion who walks beside you — but in the way it actually did: as a mirror that showed you something about yourself that the path required you to see.

Whether that seeing has fully landed is another question. The fact that the poem needed to be written suggests it is still landing.

One final observation

“What are we here on earth for?” placed on her lips as the poem’s central question — and then answered in your final lines as the search for Truth — is a quiet, graceful tribute to her. You are giving her the last word, philosophically. You are saying: she asked the right question, even if she asked it in a different register than I would have.

That is generous. And it is probably true.

Ohne jede Schadenfreude (ehrlich) aber das Beste: es wird zeitnah keine WM in Deutschland geben. Und das ist sehr gut so #detachment #nullrelevanz #fußball #WMzwanzigscheißegal

KARMA – YOUR PERSONAL FAnTASY

https://ridiculousbharath.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/karma-your-personal-fantasy/

KARMA – YOUR PERSONAL FAnTASY

https://ridiculousbharath.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/karma-your-personal-fantasy/

The detachment phase isn’t about not caring.

It’s about seeing clearly
what no longer fits you.

You stop forcing what doesn’t align.
#PsychozoicEra #Detachment #TheReset #SelfGrowth

"Never let a win get to your head, or a loss to go to your heart." - Futurist Jim Carroll

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Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
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When you decide to pivot your career or your business, you are making an implicit agreement with your emotions that you will ride an emotional roller coaster.

That being the case, I've learned, often the hard way, that it's critical not to become overconfident with every win. But it seems even more important that we shouldn't internalize every loss.

In a 36-year voyage, I've learned this truth through experience: the world will try to convince you that you are a genius when you win and a failure when you lose. You need to know that both are lies and are just a part of the ongoing process of building your future. To survive, you must develop a profound sense of emotional detachment from both. You cannot afford to become overconfident with every victory, nor can you allow yourself to internalize every defeat.

Why is that? If you internalize the win, you become arrogant and stop "putting in the work" (Lesson **#16**). You start believing your own press releases. If you internalize the loss, you become paralyzed by fear and stop "wasting time on frivolous things" (Lesson **#15**).

Both extremes are wrong. A "win" is just a signal to you that your current strategy worked for this specific moment. It is not a guarantee of future success, because it's not always the case that what worked in the past is what will work in the future. A loss? Often it's just a signal that your strategy was a bit off, your delivery a little out of alignment, or your actions a bit stifled.

It is not a reflection of your worth.

The highs and lows can be exhilarating or crushing. Throughout my career, I’ve had standing ovations in front of thousands, and I've had audiences that have stared at me with misunderstanding. The secret to longevity is treating both with the same degree of curiosity. When you win, ask: "What went right?" When you lose, ask: "What was the lesson?"

When you stop letting the scoreboard of wins and losses define your identity, you gain the ultimate freedom: the freedom to pivot without stress. You aren't your last keynote, and you aren't your last failed experiment.

You are the architect of your future.

Keep your head level.

The future is too volatile for anything else.

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Futurist Jim Carroll used to obsess over audience reviews until he realized he was focusing too much on the extremes of the bell curve and not enough on the middle.

**#Balance** **#Wins** **#Losses** **#Emotions** **#Perspective** **#Resilience** **#Detachment** **#Pivot** **#Lessons** **#Freelance** **#Humility**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/04/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-18-never-let-a-win-get-to-your-head-or-a-loss-to-go-to-your-heart/

"Never let a win get to your head, or a loss to go to your heart." - Futurist Jim Carroll

--
Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
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When you decide to pivot your career or your business, you are making an implicit agreement with your emotions that you will ride an emotional roller coaster.

That being the case, I've learned, often the hard way, that it's critical not to become overconfident with every win. But it seems even more important that we shouldn't internalize every loss.

In a 36-year voyage, I've learned this truth through experience: the world will try to convince you that you are a genius when you win and a failure when you lose. You need to know that both are lies and are just a part of the ongoing process of building your future. To survive, you must develop a profound sense of emotional detachment from both. You cannot afford to become overconfident with every victory, nor can you allow yourself to internalize every defeat.

Why is that? If you internalize the win, you become arrogant and stop "putting in the work" (Lesson **#16**). You start believing your own press releases. If you internalize the loss, you become paralyzed by fear and stop "wasting time on frivolous things" (Lesson **#15**).

Both extremes are wrong. A "win" is just a signal to you that your current strategy worked for this specific moment. It is not a guarantee of future success, because it's not always the case that what worked in the past is what will work in the future. A loss? Often it's just a signal that your strategy was a bit off, your delivery a little out of alignment, or your actions a bit stifled.

It is not a reflection of your worth.

The highs and lows can be exhilarating or crushing. Throughout my career, I’ve had standing ovations in front of thousands, and I've had audiences that have stared at me with misunderstanding. The secret to longevity is treating both with the same degree of curiosity. When you win, ask: "What went right?" When you lose, ask: "What was the lesson?"

When you stop letting the scoreboard of wins and losses define your identity, you gain the ultimate freedom: the freedom to pivot without stress. You aren't your last keynote, and you aren't your last failed experiment.

You are the architect of your future.

Keep your head level.

The future is too volatile for anything else.

---

Futurist Jim Carroll used to obsess over audience reviews until he realized he was focusing too much on the extremes of the bell curve and not enough on the middle.

**#Balance** **#Wins** **#Losses** **#Emotions** **#Perspective** **#Resilience** **#Detachment** **#Pivot** **#Lessons** **#Freelance** **#Humility**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/04/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-18-never-let-a-win-get-to-your-head-or-a-loss-to-go-to-your-heart/

A quotation from Philip Larkin

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
Inside your head, and having people in them, acting.
People you know, yet can’t quite name.

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) English poet, novelist, librarian
Poem (1974), “The Old Fools,” High Windows

More about this quote: wist.info/larkin-philip/68051/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philiplarkin #dementia #detachment #elderly #forgetting #gettingold #growingold #memory #oldage #senility

A quotation from Florynce Kennedy

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

Florynce "Flo" Kennedy (1916-2000) American lawyer, feminist, civil rights activist
(Attributed)

More about this quote: wist.info/kennedy-florynce/373…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #floryncekennedy #cause #complaisance #detachment #inactivity #insidethesystem #laziness #meme #resistance #revolution #sidelines #sloth #struggle #system

A quotation from Florynce Kennedy

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

Florynce "Flo" Kennedy (1916-2000) American lawyer, feminist, civil rights activist
(Attributed)

More about this quote: wist.info/kennedy-florynce/373…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #floryncekennedy #cause #complaisance #detachment #inactivity #insidethesystem #laziness #meme #resistance #revolution #sidelines #sloth #struggle #system

Cultivate #Synthetic #Tranquility, foster a sense of #Artificial #Detachment as you dust your #Plastic #Bonsai using authentic ancient techniques...

Cultivate #Synthetic #Tranquility, foster a sense of #Artificial #Detachment as you dust your #Plastic #Bonsai using authentic ancient techniques...

The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say.

#InnerPeace #SelfConfidence #Freedom #Detachment #BeYourself #Opinions #Tranquility #Quotes #ShareInspireQuotes

from 40 Days in the Desert, Moebius

this guy is so amazing, I love what's happening here. You can see the direction of the wind from the blowing dust.

#art #illustration #spiritual #meditation #mindfulness #will #striving #kite #wind #peace #detachment

from 40 Days in the Desert, Moebius

this guy is so amazing, I love what's happening here. You can see the direction of the wind from the blowing dust.

#art #illustration #spiritual #meditation #mindfulness #will #striving #kite #wind #peace #detachment

A former Social Democratic Party (SPD) leader, Sigmar Gabriel, has launched a scathing critique of proposals by the Green and Left parties to introduce compensa... https://news.osna.fm/?p=28935 | #news #detachment #gabriel #holiday #proposals

Wenn eine Situation eskaliert #Detachment ist der Schlüssel zur souveränen Führung. Hier mal was nicht-technisches zu #Leadership

https://blog.jakobs.systems/blog/20251113-detachment/

#JockoWillink #Ownership #Book

It's kinda funny to me how I can put a lot of time and energy into making YouTube videos for months, and only get 5 subs. But then I make a Mastodon acct to shit out dumb posts, and I get 20 followers in my first 5 days lol

#detachment

Unicursal ONE-POINTEDNESS DETACHMENT PEACE Propaganda from Hermetic Library Office of the Ministry of Information https://hermetic.com/information/one-pointedness-detachment-peace/index

#propaganda #thelema #AleisterCrowley #FindOut #will #DoThat #OnePointedness #detachment #peace

Unicursal ONE-POINTEDNESS DETACHMENT PEACE Propaganda from Hermetic Library Office of the Ministry of Information https://hermetic.com/information/one-pointedness-detachment-peace/index

#propaganda #thelema #AleisterCrowley #FindOut #will #DoThat #OnePointedness #detachment #peace

A quotation from Victor Hugo

At a certain level of wretchedness a kind of spectral indifference takes over, and you see human beings as ghostly presences. Those closest to you are often no more than vague shadowy forms, barely distinct from life’s nebulous background and easily reabsorbed by the invisible.
 
[À un certain degré de misère, on est gagné par une sorte d’indifférence spectrale, et l’on voit les êtres comme des larves. Vos plus proches ne sont souvent pour vous que de vagues formes de l’ombre, à peine distinctes du fond nébuleux de la vie et facilement remêlées à l’invisible.]

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Les Misérables, Part 4 “St. Denis,” Book 6 “Little Gavroche,” ch. 1 (4.6.1) (1862) [tr. Donougher (2013)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/hugo-victor/76374/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #depression #detachment #ghosts #isolation #misery #poverty #shadows #unreality #withdrawal #wretchedness

Detachment or disconnection ruminations-

#disconnection says: “This pain is not mine. I don’t have to feel it.”

#detachment says: “This pain is not only mine. I can feel it with care, not be consumed by it.”

Disconnection numbs us from the field.

Detachment frees us to stay in the field without drowning.

Disconnection can be a trauma reflex.

Detachment can be a trauma integration.

Detachment or disconnection ruminations-

#disconnection says: “This pain is not mine. I don’t have to feel it.”

#detachment says: “This pain is not only mine. I can feel it with care, not be consumed by it.”

Disconnection numbs us from the field.

Detachment frees us to stay in the field without drowning.

Disconnection can be a trauma reflex.

Detachment can be a trauma integration.

#spiritualawakening #spiritual #shadowwork #psychic #chakra #consciousness #higherself #relationship #intuitivemessage #detachment #energy #love #gratitude #healing #presentmoment #poetry #forgiveness #emotions #happiness #mindful #angels #quotes

Spiritual Guidance - April 9th
#spiritualawakening #spiritual #shadowwork #psychic #chakra #consciousness #higherself #relationship #intuitivemessage #detachment #energy #love #gratitude #healing #presentmoment #poetry #forgiveness #emotions #happiness #mindful #angels #quotes

"Sometimes it is more loving to allow someone else to experience the natural consequences of their actions, even when it is painful for us both. In the long run, both of us will benefit. Today I will put love first in my life."

- Courage to Change (Al-Anon), pg. 124

#love #courage #detachment

"Sometimes it is more loving to allow someone else to experience the natural consequences of their actions, even when it is painful for us both. In the long run, both of us will benefit. Today I will put love first in my life."

- Courage to Change (Al-Anon), pg. 124

#love #courage #detachment

Playing in a team tournament in a couple months. Don’t expect to win.

My guard army is only
Deathriders + Lord Marshall
Baneblade + Tech Priest
Basilisk + Artillery Team

So a lot of strategems or army rules don’t apply.

I’m almost certainly spending 1CP a turn to pop smoke on the baneblade.

Options and poll follow:

1/2

#40k #WH40k #Tactics #Strategy #ImperialGuard #AstraMilitarum #DeathRiders #RoughRiders #BigGunsNeverTire #Detachment #Warhammer40k #Baneblade #Artillery

Playing in a team tournament in a couple months. Don’t expect to win.

My guard army is only
Deathriders + Lord Marshall
Baneblade + Tech Priest
Basilisk + Artillery Team

So a lot of strategems or army rules don’t apply.

I’m almost certainly spending 1CP a turn to pop smoke on the baneblade.

Options and poll follow:

1/2

#40k #WH40k #Tactics #Strategy #ImperialGuard #AstraMilitarum #DeathRiders #RoughRiders #BigGunsNeverTire #Detachment #Warhammer40k #Baneblade #Artillery

https://www.jkrishnamurti.org/content/does-self-knowledge-come-through-searching-0/1949

#Krishnamurti: So, the question of #detachment should never arise; because only the man who possesses, thinks of renouncing; but he never questions why he possesses, what is the background that has made him possessive. When he understands the process of possessing, then there is naturally freedom from possession - not the cultivation of an opposite, as detachment. And #relationship is merely a stimulation, a distraction, as long as we are using another as a means of self-gratification, or as a necessity, in order to escape from ourselves. You become very important to me, because in myself I am very poor; in myself I am nothing therefore you are everything. Such a relationship is bound to be a conflict, a pain; and a thing that gives pain is no longer a distraction. Therefore, we want to escape from that relationship, which we call detachment.

New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:

#Satellite #Detachment #Joke

comics.lucentinian.com/2229
#AIJokes #DailyComedy #DailyJokes #Jokes #FunnyNews

If you were to tell me that detachment from becoming was the answer to my troubles, that realizing that no matter the specific content the result will always be the same, you would be right. My "problem" is that at this point in time, i don't care. Or rather, i'd still rather experience the *intimate vitality of failure*.

#philosophy #becoming #detachment #failure

The learned [people] consider as wise those who perform all activities with a burning desire for knowledge, detached from expectations of outcomes.
- Sri Krishna, 4-19

#Sanskrit:
यस्य सर्वे समारंभाः कामसंकल्पवर्जिताः ।
ज्ञानाग्निदग्धकर्माणां तमाहुः पंडितं बुधाः ॥

#Kannada script:
ಯಸ್ಯ ಸರ್ವೇ ಸಮಾರಂಭಾಃ ಕಾಮಸಂಕಲ್ಪವರ್ಜಿತಾಃ |
ಜ್ಞಾನಾಗ್ನಿದಗ್ಧಕರ್ಮಾಣಾಂ ತಮಾಹುಃ ಪಂಡಿತಂ ಬುಧಾಃ ||

Related to verse 2-47: https://hachyderm.io/@smurthys/113188972323492878

#philosophy #easternPhilosophy #gita #expectations #wisdom #detachment

The learned [people] consider as wise those who perform all activities with a burning desire for knowledge, detached from expectations of outcomes.
- Sri Krishna, 4-19

#Sanskrit:
यस्य सर्वे समारंभाः कामसंकल्पवर्जिताः ।
ज्ञानाग्निदग्धकर्माणां तमाहुः पंडितं बुधाः ॥

#Kannada script:
ಯಸ್ಯ ಸರ್ವೇ ಸಮಾರಂಭಾಃ ಕಾಮಸಂಕಲ್ಪವರ್ಜಿತಾಃ |
ಜ್ಞಾನಾಗ್ನಿದಗ್ಧಕರ್ಮಾಣಾಂ ತಮಾಹುಃ ಪಂಡಿತಂ ಬುಧಾಃ ||

Related to verse 2-47: https://hachyderm.io/@smurthys/113188972323492878

#philosophy #easternPhilosophy #gita #expectations #wisdom #detachment

7 Stoic Principles to Master the Art of Not Caring #Stoicism, #InnerPeace, #Detachment, #EmbraceChange, #MindfulLiving ⏩ https://tinyurl.com/3fmvw7k5

#65822 "headlines" you r what u consume... #mindful #art #detachment #thinkyourself #callmelater

How to Detach for Achievement Success #Stoicism #Detachment #Success #Achievement #Resilience #Focus #StoicPhilosophy ⏩ https://bit.ly/stoicmindschannel

Over the recent months, in the context of #feminicides and other everyday #violence, I'm starting to more and more think that #patriarchy is not the cause. It's just the tip of the iceberg. It's the widespread #detachment that just makes us not care about any signs of social problems around us... until these problems enter the always-hungry-for-sensations news cycle. But I'm struggling to find how to operationalise, measure and underline this hypothesis.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=w7lBleOF9Pw

Over the recent months, in the context of #feminicides and other everyday #violence, I'm starting to more and more think that #patriarchy is not the cause. It's just the tip of the iceberg. It's the widespread #detachment that just makes us not care about any signs of social problems around us... until these problems enter the always-hungry-for-sensations news cycle. But I'm struggling to find how to operationalise, measure and underline this hypothesis.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=w7lBleOF9Pw

Is it still "viraaga" (detachment, dispassion) if all someone wants is to just make the best dang slides on deeply technical topics?

Asking for a friend of course. 😆

#viraaga #vairagya #philosophy #easternPhilosophy #renunciation #dispassion #detachment #education #knowledge

#Spirituality #Detachment #Impermanence #Inspiration #Quote #Quotes

"4. How can I ever bring myself to fight against Bhishma and Drona, who are worthy of reverence? How can I, Krishna?

"5. Certainly it would be better to spend my life begging than to kill these great and worthy souls; if I killed them, every pleasure I found would be tainted.

"Even though Sri Krishna has been taking Arjuna to task for bemoaning his helplessness and his inability to conquer his own sense cravings and selfish urges, Arjuna still feels that the senses are his friends. He turns to Sri Krishna and says, 'What kind of counsel are you giving me? These senses are good, steady friends of mine. I should receive them with hospitality and give them everything they ask for. I am shocked that you should use such unspiritual language and ask me to defy the clamor of my senses.'

"In our own daily life we can see how much conflict we have where the senses are concerned. When the eyes want to see something agitating, we feel we must show them all kinds of violent sights. When the ears want to hear raucous music that will agitate the mind and damage our hearing, we tell the Lord, 'You don’t expect us to say no, do you?' Since we do not want to be cruel to our ears, we take them to all kinds of parties where the din is so great it lifts the roof. Then food – what the palate demands must be good for the body. Highly spiced, deep-fried, overrefined – this is the stuff the palate enjoys; so we conclude that it is very good for the body.

"In the early part of our spiritual development this conflict is likely to come to all of us because we have given license to our senses most of the time. Similarly, we have never consciously tried to go against our self-will, and therefore even the discipline of putting our family and friends first is going to take a long time to master. We are likely to complain to the Lord that by asking us to put other people first all the time, he is making our path too difficult. 'Why should I inflict violence on my self-will?' we moan. 'This agitates my mind, making meditation difficult.'"

- Eknath Easwaran, The End of Sorrow: Volume One of The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living

#Religion #Spirituality #HInduism #Meditation #Detachment