Quotes About Non-attachment

May all beings abide in peace and equanimity, their minds free from attachment and aversion, and free from indifference.

Peace begins when expectations end.

He who is desireless, self-reliant, independent and free of bonds functions like a dead leaf blown about by the wind of causality .

No one can insult me, because I do not want respect.No one can defeat me, because I have given up the idea of winning.How can you defeat me? You can only defeat someone who wants to win.

Hãy v?t ngay Ä'i cái gì không ph?i c?a ta. Hãy thanh l?c các ý ki?n c?a b?n ?? cái gì không thuá»™c v? b?n s? không bám l?y b?n, ??ng có dính vào Ä'ó và cÅ©ng ??ng Ä'au kh? khi ng??i ta tÆ°á»›c b? c?a b?n cái th? không thuá»™c v? b?n Ä'ó.

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

When you attend the games, do not get emotionally invested in the rivalry. Wish only that the best team or athlete wins. Avoid the extremes of elation at a win and devastation at a loss.

If you wish to be free, do not desire anything that depends on another, lest you make them your master.

Taoism taught me to focus on the process and not to be attached to preconceived ideas of what I thought the outcome should be.

This is the order of things then: First, training ourselves to be present in the moment with what is there. Second, developing the attitude of self-acceptance so that whatever arises is OK, thus coming to terms with ourselves. Third, abandoning all goals.

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don't accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little you a will have a little peace; if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace; if you let go completely you will have complete peace.

Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing. Ajahn Chah

If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.

Let what comes come, let what goes go.

There is nothing scary about life if you are not attached to results.

If you start to accumulate things, you can't travel, so I lived without. I figured I could live a whole life without anything,

Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love.

The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.

Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.

Equanimity means that one does not do abhorrence at the time of abhorrence (generating incidents) and one does not do attachment at the time of attachment (generating incidents).

Mortification has to be carried to the pitch of non-attachment or (in the phrase of St. Fran$ois de Sales) 'holy indifference'; otherwise it merely transfers self-will from one channel to another, not merely without decrease in the total volume of that self-will, but sometimes with an actual increase.

Embrace nothing: If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. If you meet your father, kill your father. Only live your life as it is, Not bound to anything.

[on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don't mind what happens.