The Second Noble Truth, Attatchment

The second noble truth.

Attachment.

The origin of suffering is attachment to transient things.

Not only the physical objects that surround us. But also the ideas and objects of our perception.

Ignorance of not comprehending how our mind is attached to impermanent things causes suffering.

The reasons for suffering are craving and clinging. Attachment.

Heres a head spinner. We can not actually be addicted to anything. Only the act of craving is addictive.

Because the objects of our desires are transient.

Loss is inevitable.

Suffering will follow.

Objects of attachment include the idea of a "self" or what we call self.

Suffering includes everything from great physical pain or the grief of losing a loved one, to the slight thought in the back of your mind that something is not quite right.