Quotes About Attachment

Where we love is home — home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought—not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

The fifth kind of Zen, Saijojo Zen (Supreme Vehicle Zen), can also be called Nyorai Shojo Zen. Master Shumitsu said that it is training through which one has a sudden realization that one's mind is originally pure, that from the beginning there is no suffering which arises from our attachment to desire.

We should remember that by being well integrated with any matter or thing, we will naturally come to be liberated from our attachment to them.

Makyo is, in short, our attachment to favorable conditions that we ourselves approve of. It is possible to subdue them by ignoring them and eliminating them, as testified by the words of ancients.

SAMADHI AND ATTACHMENT There is a question which must be taken into consideration now. That is, whether living unconsciously in "no-self" from morning to night is in accord with the principle of Zen or not.

There is a very interesting dialogue between master and disciple illustrating this difference between samadhi and attachment in Denshu Roku57 written by the Chinese Neo-Confucian philosopher, O Yomei (Wang Yang-ming). His disciple Riko-cho (Lu Ch'eng) once him about the meaning of the merit of primal oneness. In my opinion, this term generally alludes to samadhi.

To be wholly given up to love affairs or money-making is 'chasing after things,' or attachment, which means having yourself pulled and spun about by something external to you. This can never be called true samadhi. What may be called samadhi must be invested with the Heavenly Principle as the master.

Running after things is called attachment; following the Heavenly Principle is samadhi.

The distinction between samadhi and attachment (following forms) depends on whether we are completely one with objects, liberated from mind and body, or whether we remain even slightly attached to the duality of subject and object.

God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.

You are mine, but you are not mine. I am yours, but you hardly know it.

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

A man does not belong to the place he was born in, but to the place he chooses to die.

What uneasiness lies in being loved.

Haven't we known for a long time that it's a mistake to attach meaning to each and every action of a person? Forced explanations often end in a distortion of lies.

You miss her, don't you?" "Yes.

I had the feeling that were Mother to die, my own flesh would melt away with her.

Ojii-san's wen has been his only confidant, and he's conscious of a certain loneliness without it.

Horiki mostraba hacia los objetos de su casa una posesividad que alcanzaba hasta los cordones del cojín. Pensándolo después, a Horiki no le había costado ni un céntimo el divertirse conmigo.

Pese a que temía tanto a la gente, al parecer era incapaz de renunciar a ella. Y esas bufonadas fueron la única línea que me unía a los demás. Mientras que en la superficie mostraba siempre un rostro sonriente, por dentro mantenía una lucha desesperada (...)

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Por suerte uno tiene madre, el buen lugar al que parece que siempre queremos volver.

Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.