Just thought I'd come back and update on this... After I opened myself up to non-Attachment, I seemed to be given the ultimate lesson. I'm still working through it, seeing as I resisted and then caused myself a lot of stress and pain, but realising that I've opened myself up to it, I can see the answer. I just have to work out how to get to it. I have to work out what I am attached to in this circumstance, and let it go. Be ok. Be unified. Know that I don't need to hold on with a clenched fist nor throw it away. Just live it, right now, without wanting what was or what could have been...


For others interested in Attachment and non-Attachment, I read a really good explanation of one person's view on attachment and non-attachment. That attachment implies viewing yourself and your 'attachment' as separate from all other things. Non-attachment is viewing youself in unity with all, separate from none, so there is nothing to attach to.

"According to the Buddhist point of view, nonattachment is exactly the opposite of separation. You need two things in order to have attachment: the thing you’re attaching to, and the person who’s attaching. In nonattachment, on the other hand, there’s unity. There’s unity because there’s nothing to attach to. If you have unified with the whole universe, there’s nothing outside of you, so the notion of attachment becomes absurd. Who will attach to what?"
John Daido Loori