NONATTACHMENT

Buddhism, as well as Vedanta, teaches the principle of nonattachment.  We are to avoid all attachments, all fetters, all chains that bind.  This includes attachment to personal possessions, location, money, other people, and most of all ourselves.  

Attaching ourselves to things is folly because soon enough we are bored with them, wish we never had them, yet cannot get rid of them.  We become attached to people but because we do not like most of them all that much, it jeopardizes our happiness in the end. Have feelings for people, the Buddha said, but do not make them responsible for your happiness. 

And why should we attach ourselves to ourselves, to our physical selves especially, for our physical selves are dying, have been dying from the day we were born?  Why should we attach ourselves to our psychological selves when our psychological selves are an illusion?