Should We Be Non-Attached?

Should we seek to end all suffering?

Many adherents of Buddhism are obsessed with ending suffering, their own and the world’s. Their theory of change is that we do this by ending desire. We end our desire by dissolving our attachments. We dissolve our attachments by noticing that the ego is an illusion and denouncing that too. “Before we can ‘cancel’ people,” I imagine the Buddha saying, “…