Quotes About Non-attachment

If you love something, let it go. If you don't love something, definitely let it go. Basically, just drop everything, who cares.

The heart of the path is quite easy. There's no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That's all that I do in my own practice.

To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking.

You must get rid of all sense of resentment and hostility. You must change your own state of mind until you are conscious only of harmony and peace within yourself, and have a sense of positive goodwill towards all.   This

Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you.

Victory gives birth to hate; The defeated sleep in anguish. Giving up both victory and defeat, Those who have attained peace sleep happily.

Without longing or dislike, No bonds exist.

I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.

When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.

An emotion is like a cloud passing through the sky. Sometimes it is fear or anger, sometimes it is happiness or love, sometimes it is compassion. But none of them ultimately constitute a self. They are just what they are, each manifesting its own quality. With this understanding, we can cultivate the emotions that seem helpful and simply let the others be, without aversion, without suppression, without identification.

Four Rules For Life Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results.

Pain was simply pain, pleasure was simply pleasure; for him they were no longer part of the cycle of suffering.

Not to be attached to something is to be aware of its absolute value. Everything you do should be based on such an awareness, and not on material or self-centered ideas of value.

Zen is nothing to get excited about.

In our practice we have no particular purpose or goal, nor any special object of worship.

When we practice zazen we just practice zazen, without any gaining idea. When we talk about something we just talk about something, ...without trying to express some intellectual, one-sided idea. And we listen without trying to figure or some intellectual understanding, without trying to understand from just a one-sided view.

Sattva brings non-attachment and infuses in the mind discrimination and renunciation. It is the Rajasic mind that causes the ideas 'I' and 'mine' and the difference of body, caste, creed, colour, order of life, etc.

Try hard not to create too much hope and fear," for they only engender more mental gossip.

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth.

Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.

According to Buddhist philosophy, nothing ever really belongs to you. Even so, you can still give stuff away.

As long as something wants to arise, let it. As long as something wants to last, let it. As soon as something wants to pass, let it.

Nothing external can disturb us. We suffer only when we want things to be different from what they are.