Attachment

We as humans become attached to things. We attach ourselves to idea's, beliefs, customs, patterns, rhythms and many other "things" because of the comfort it brings. We can become too comfortable.

Even in a martial system like karate we become attached to things like dogma. We attach meaning to things within our practices because it brings a comfort to know with absoluteness that it is there, firm and unshakable but is that true?

Would it be more efficient and beneficial to not become attached to things? Isn't it more productive to growth to allow only the initial attachment for learning then "let it go" to create a holistic method that allows for growth beyond the idea, the belief, the custom, the patterns and rhythms to it grows and prospers?

If so, why do we still attach ourselves to things to a point where we will commit acts of violence to keep it within our self-created cocoon of comfort? I believe there is room for both comfort and non-comfort, i.e. comfort being yin and non-comfort being yang. After all there is room for the mirror image of comfort that is the same yet different when reflected upon.

It is a matter of making it different yet the same. It is possible to keep the comfort of the system alive and prosperous within each of us yet let the natural expression of the self through the practice radiate on the outside creating the symbiotic relationship of the idea, the belief, the customs, the patterns and rhythms that become unique and then comfortable - until the next moment where it can and often does change.