Quotes About Non-attachment

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

As a solid mass of rock Is not moved by the wind, So a sage is not moved by praise and blame.

When we see something pleasant, we want to hold on, not understanding the impermanence of it all. As soon as we become mindful, paying attention to what's happening, seeing how everything is arising and passing away, the grasping and greed decreases. There's nothing to hold onto. It's all bubbles. And the experience of impermanence, the dissolving of the solidity of everything, brings about the letting go, the state of non-attachment.

And one abides independent, not clinging to anything in the world.

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El desapego no es desamor, sino una manera sana de relacionarse, cuyas premisas son: independencia, no posesividad y no adicción.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Abiding means letting everything be as it already is – no matter what it is. If you're feeling good, let that be as it is. If you're feeling bad, let that be as it is. No matter what your emotional, physical, or mental state, let it be as it is and don't wish it to be otherwise. If you want it to be different from what it is, you're not abiding; you're picking and choosing and trying to control your experience. (p. 29)

Disengaging means you leave these things alone and you're not concerned or worried about them.

Then we were both lectured by our guruji. He told us clearly what was expected of us: never again to use a vehicle, to take food only once a day, not to use Western medicine, to abstain from emotion, never to hurt any living creature. He told us we must not react to attacks, must not beg, must not cry, must not complain, must not demand, must not feel superiority, must learn not to be disturbed by illusory things.

Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.

The pair of opposites do not effect a yogi - neither praise nor insult.

I may appear stand off-ish but I'm not. I just let go of my attachment to things.

When you realize it's not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were.

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord. This is a powerful spiritual practice. In the Bhagavad Gita, one of the oldest and most beautiful spiritual teachings in existence, non-attachment to the fruit of your action is called Karma Yoga. It is described as the path of consecrated action.

Leave Life alone. Let it be.

When you realize it's not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were. By

through nonresistance, nonjudgment, and non-attatchment] you can participate in the dance of creation and be active without attachment to outcome and without placing unreasonable demands upon the world: fulfil me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world can not give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self-created suffering comes to an end.

Feel yourself becoming transparent, as it were, without the solidity of a material body. Now allow the noise, or whatever causes a negative reaction, to pass right through you. It is no longer hitting a solid "wall" inside you.

Once you have disidentified from your mind, whether you are right or wrong makes no difference to your sense of self at all, so the forcefully compulsive and deeply unconscious need to be right, which is a form of violence, will no longer be there. You can state clearly and firmly how you feel or what you think, but there will be no aggressiveness or defensiveness about it. Your sense of self is then derived from a deeper and truer place within yourself, not from the mind.

I'm calm and composed, and I don't expect a lot from anyone.

Muichi Motsu: Hold nothing: If you meet Buddha, kill Buddha. If you meet the patriarchs, kill the patriarchs. Free of all, bound by nothing, you live your life simply as it is