Quotes About Non-attachment

Whoever is not tied to possessions, clinging neither to body nor mind, is never in bondage.

Emotions are but one category of the many different mental formations we can have. They come, they stay for a while, and then they go. Why should we have to die for an emotion?

Releasing both victory and defeat, the tranquil minds dwell in happiness. Victory produces hostility.

The good certainly cling to nothing. They do not talk aimlessly, concerned with personal gains. The wise, whether experiencing comfort or discomfort, show neither elation not depression.

Do not be concerned with what others have or have not done. Observe your own actions and inactions.

Equanimity means to let go, not to abandon.

Our feelings are formations, impermanent and without substance. We learn not to identify with ourselves with our feelings, not to consider them as a self, not to seek refuge in them, not to die because of them.

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

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.

O seeker! Rely on nothing until you want nothing.

We seek absolute neutrality in Buddhism. We don't want to be drawn into anything in particular. We don't want to be pushed away from anything in particular.

Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching, there's a hexagram that says, "Be like the sun at midday". View all things as being equal.

Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is fine, too. Look on all of it as equal, and make yourself comfortable with whatever happens.

you should cultivate freedom, including freedom from your own concepts and ideas.

Meditating with a goal or in order to accomplish something is not giving the practice a fair shake.Instead let yourself off the self-improvement treadmill, and simply be with yourself in your natural state. The practice isn't about achieving something. It's about letting go.

You need not worry or make yourself sleepless about the world; it will go on without you.

You find in Krishna that non-attachment is the central idea.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

22  ââ'¬Å"These wise ones have transcended the pairs of opposites; they are the same in success or failure, indifferent to loss or gain; they never bother to compete or compare, are free of envy, and contentedly shoulder whatever comes to them. They too are not bound by karmic consequences even though performing worldly actions.

In fact it didn't make a goddamn much of a difference to him. "I'm neutral," said he, laughing happily with a kind of an eager slaking leer, and Japhy yelled: "Neutral is what Buddhism is!

Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions.

When you're not attached to anything, nothing can harm you. When people become attached, they can be harmed. I know this, so I don't attach myself to anything, really.

Then, like anything else that can't be understood, that can't be influenced, we let it go by.

The way is light and fluid for the man with no preferences.