Nonattachment as Resistance
Nonattachment is not detachment or indifference. It’s a clear-eyed refusal to idolize systems that demand loyalty at the cost of integrity. Our task is not to mimic the world’s power games but to live in a different way. That requires stepping back from the influence of domination systems—political, economic, or even religious—so we can create space for something new. Nonattachment (freedom from loyalties to human-made domination systems) is the best way I know of protecting people from religious zealotry or any kind of antagonistic thinking or behavior. The call is not to destroy but to witness differently. Our gatherings, when honest, become small-scale experiments in shared life, visible alternatives to cultural norms. We’re not building an escape; we’re cultivating a place where the values of compassion, justice, and unity are practiced. If there’s a future worth choosing, it will be shaped by how we live now—not what we say.
May we practice nonattachment
so that our lives reflect a deeper loyalty
to compassion, justice, and unity
beyond the systems that divide.
(inspired by Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ)