[Maryjasmine]

Hi EG,

Attachment is the big issue of Gotama's teaching. It has an intimate relation with anatta or the doctrine of Non Self.

From there is that it is the hardest aspect of Buddhist practice.

We can understand attachment as the outcome of a deluded mind; of an untamed mind. A mind that craves for more and clings to things.

One of the ways to conquer attachment is meditation which can help any time we watch carefully how thought arise and fade constantly in the mind not clinging to them; not giving them the property of ownership.

Other of the ways to to conquer attachment is letting go. As when we lose the strength of a tight fist.

Other way is to contemplate the ultimate unsatisfactory nature of things as they are impermanent. So to be attached is useless and will end, eventualy, in dukkha.

Generally attachment is because we crave for sensual gratification. Being this, ideas -wrong views-, people, things, pleasures, sensations, etc.

Attachment has the face of running away, too, from what we dislike or from what we think avoids getting those gratifications.