Blessed is he who is not attached to anything transitory or corruptible. Blessed is the intellect that transcends all sensible objects and ceaselessly delights in divine beauty. (Maximos the Confessor)

Buddhism teaches non-attachment. But for the Buddhist this is not separation. Zen teacher John Daido Loori writes,

... according to the Buddhist point of view, nonattachment is exactly the opposite of separation. You need two things in order to have attachment: the thing you’re attaching to, and the person who’s attaching. In nonattachment, on the other hand, there’s unity. There’s unity because there’s nothing to attach to. If you have unified with the whole universe, there’s nothing outside of you, so the notion of attachment becomes absurd. Who will attach to what?

Is this what Maximos is attempting to teach? Are we to seek union with God, union with the very ground of being, in order to transcend a separate sense of self and all its ills?