Bare Awareness and Non-Attachment

Bare Awareness and Non-Attachment

Today I touched an insight:
Bare awareness and non-attachment are not separate.

Bare awareness is the way of seeing—clean, quiet, without commentary.
It is the simple presence that notices what is without needing to change it.
Noticing breath. Sensation. Thought.
Without picking it apart or pushing it away.

And in that seeing, something softens.
Attachment loses its grip.
The mind doesn't cling so much, because it's not reacting.
There’s no story to hold onto. No judgment to defend.

This is what the teachings mean by “clearly knowing.”
A mind that sees what’s present—directly, gently—without being caught.
Not detached, but intimate.
Not passive, but receptive.

I see now that non-attachment isn't cold or distant—
it's a kind of tender allowing.
Letting things arise. Letting things pass.
Not because I should, but because I see clearly.

Bare awareness is the ground.
Clearly knowing is the seeing.
Non-attachment is the fruit.
And all of it feels like peace.