Quotes About Attachment

Since we cling to our hope in the future, we do not focus our energies and capabilities on the present moment

If we can't let go, we will suffer not only on the day when we're finally forced to do so, but right now today and every day in between, because fear will be constantly stalking us.

4. All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them. I cannot keep anything. I come here empty-handed, and I go empty-handed.

If you haven't been able to be happy, maybe it's because you're holding firmly to your idea of happiness

Freedom is above all else freedom from our own notions and concepts. If we get caught in our notions and concepts, we can make ourselves suffer and we can also make those we love suffer.

la infelicidad humana se asienta fundamentalmente en tres elementos: la ignorancia, el apego y la ira.

Our moods fluctuate and we identify ourselves with these feelings. When we're sad, we say, I'm sad. When we're happy, we say, I'm happy. But our true person is not those things, nor is it something outside of them.

People don't dare let go of the mind, they grasp onto the mind. They can let go of the objects of the mind, but they don't dare to let go of the mind. Why? We're afraid of falling into a place where we think there will be nothing to feel, to touch, to pick up, afraid we'll have nothing left. But emptiness doesn't mean nothingness.

our afflictions, such as craving, anger

Every human being wants to love and be loved. This is very natural. But often love, desire, need, and fear get wrapped up all together

True love doesn't contain suffering or attachment. It brings well-being to ourselves and others.

The root of that craving is our habit energy.When we look deeply at it, we can begin to untie the knot.

The stopping of suffering is disappearance of desire, the ending of ideas, the giving up of, letting go of, liberation from, and refusal to dwell in the object of desire.

The Zen practitioner must . . . strive to liberate himself from his attachment to knowledge and to open the door of his being in order that truth might enter.

If one clings merely to a system of concepts, one only becomes stuck. The meditation on interdependence is to help one penetrate reality in order to be one with it, not to become caught up in philosophical opinion or meditation methods. The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself.

Just as a monkey jumps from one tree to another, so people jump from one prison of sensual love to another

Hay dos clases de nudos. El primero es el de nuestras opiniones e ideas, nuestros conceptos y conocimientos. Todo el mundo tiene opiniones e ideas, pero cuando nos apegamos a ellas, dejamos de ser libres y no podemos ver la verdad en la vida. La segunda clase de nudo es el de nuestras aflicciones y hábitos de sufrimiento, como el miedo, la ira, la discriminación, la desesperación y la arrogancia. Para ser libres tenemos que deshacer esos nudos.

We think that by seeking pleasure we'll avoid suffering. But this doesn't work.

The first mindfulness training is important to help us remain free people. Freedom is above all else freedom from our own notions and concepts. If we get caught in our notions and concepts, we can make ourselves suffer and we can also make those we love suffer.

I don't go anywhere without Judy.

People fantasize about working with animals, and then they start doing it, and then they start to believe that they're indispensable and the animal loves them just as much they love the animal.

Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely.

I didn't have just one place where I could say, 'That's my home.'

God has no resolve; no karma attaches itself to Him.