Attachment-Detachment and Non-Attachment

There are three conditions which often look alike

Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow:

Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment

From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference

Which resembles the others as death resembles life,

Being between two lives - unflowering, between

The live and the dead nettle.

The man who moves among the objects, free

from either attachment or repulsion finds peace.

In this peace the burden of all his previous sorrows