This thread is entitled, How Attached to your ideas are you? Well, if we are calling ourselves Taoists and Buddhists isn't it obvious that the answer is "very much"? Beliefs are merely pointers, and if we cling to our beliefs to the point that we identify with them, then we remain trapped in the realm of thought. Isn't the anger here in defense of beliefs? And isn't defense of belief the source of nearly all the violence in the world. Beliefs must be shed like rocket boosters in order to travel beyond the realm of thought. Ists and isms are monuments to thought.
