The Buddha within

Very recently, I fought with a dear friend over Buddha's philosophy and his detachment theory. I have never been quiet convinced with the treatment give to this concept. I have felt that somewhere many people just missed the meaning and essence, simply went for the term in a literal fashion.
My personal thoughts stand in contradiction to the interpretation that many have found to the most truthful concept of detachment and suffering. Even Gita says that it is the meaningless things that people run after and nothing goes with you. A lot of the learnings were told in this fashion because majority is of fools and unless you put across guidelines and instructions such as these, they(majority) will completely go berserk. But thats for the lot that have little clarity in mind and unless provided a rule book will never follow rules.
There is another lot in the society who needs to decipher the meaning with care. It is a stark reality that nothing is permanent except that source which gave birth to life. You can call it molecular energy, Aatma , GOD etc etc etc.
I would call it the X substance in us that is a small part in each of us vibrating at different wavelengths. And it is this X that connects people. Have you ever wondered as to why we sometimes feel so repulsive to one person and so affable to the other? It is this X that reaches to people with same wavelength. There are many instances of past life in this world to prove that people have relations with each other going back to many centuries and it is this connection that has kept people bonded. It is as permanent as time is - simply changes shape.
Saying all this, I go back to the attachment part. I feel that most of the people are not able detach themselves from their emotions when dire circumstances come by. Also most people are unable to detach themselves from wealth, habits, negative feelings etc. It is this detachment that many philosophers have spoken about. It is these that lead to sufferings. Even when it comes to relations, if each time a tragedy happens, and one is required to stand and take an unbiased decision and fails because of attachments, it will lead to sufferings. I feel detachments are never saying no to your commitments and relations as they are derivatives of many of our past lives. Detachment is to the situation, to the evil within us, to the many things that we accumulate and feel cannot be lived without. My justification to many who believe in detachment is that we live in a world of opposites, If there is evil, there is good, If there is Fire, there is Water too. If there is importance to detachment, then there is a meaning of attachment too. Life itself starts from the umbilical cord.
What needs to be remembered is that life is a balancing act and everything is but a limit (Always tend to). We need to know how far are we to the ends and where to place us on the number line.
Regardlessly Yours