{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwell-being-with-don-oakley.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Ftrying-to-let-go-of-attachments-ouOHfW8k","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Trying to Let Go of Attachments","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/2b5c1586-8af9-455d-92ba-9941924fc25e/39e69604-bd0e-49ff-b400-e20c90e89da3/podcast-20image.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/f60feb7b-1782-445c-b6a7-6e24c4c3cec0\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Trying to Let Go of Attachments\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"We may develop attachments to possessions, people or circumstances that we believe are essential for our peace and happiness. In spirituality we may hear that it is desirable to be free of attachments and try to do that.  But why would we want to give up something that we value? A: Only if it is a strategy to gain something we want even more! Enlightenment perhaps? But that would only be exchanging the object of our attachment. Hence the dilemma."}