practising: breaking the attachment is the answer. I have a little smile here. Of course you are correct but knowing the answer doesn't necessarily get the job done.

THE answer really is to get that old man of my back and walk in newness of life. Be seated in heavenly places always. Knowing and walking whom I know that I am.

Yet there is also this scripture: it is through suffering that ye shall enter the kingdom. No one wants to deliberately suffer even though some might take it on for one cause or another. One can lighten the load of course but from what I have seen, it rarely comes automatically but takes much practise. Quite frankly I am done with the power of positive thinking and all those similar solutions. Not saying there is no place for them but often there are little nasty surprises around the corner and you just have to take it on the chin.

One of my heroes in Christianity was Watchman Nee. Read quite a few of his books. Truly a hero....but he suffered much especially when he lost his wife to tubercolosis and eventually died himself in prison under the japanese. There is not much we can do about attachments either like family, possessions or even attachment to meditation which probably would be one of the better one to have. Just rambling on.