Choose the non-emotional response to any given situation and you’ll see yourself floating one inch above the ground whilst all your important relationships crumble.https://twitter.com/naval/status/1162111683034116096 …
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My, um, feeling is the terms are often a bit awkward and almost always need some explication. But one alternative is "non-attachment," in distinction from "detachment" and the sort of renunciation that implies a kind of disparagement of the objest being let (i.e., allowed to) go.
Yeah, words are awkward. I'm not so much looking for a better word, as much as putting an asterisk next to a word and saying *by the way this can mean a bunch of stuff, because humans. Because in some systems, the training _is_ renunciative in the way being used here.
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1/2 Indeed, some contemplative techniques ask us to "renounce" or to "fast from" words themselves, making it then necessary to appreciate that much of what they do then come to express is a form of poetry. A favorite quote, from the early Christian theologian, Gregory of Nyssa:
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2/2 the mighty David became intoxicated & went out of himself: he saw while in ecstasy, that divine beauty which no mortal can behold, and cried out in those famous words: 'Every man is a liar' [Ps.116:11], thus giving us some hint of that ineffable treasure. (*On the Canticle*)
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