Quotes About Detachment

How do you let go of attachment to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.

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

Everything is honored, but nothing matters.

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

Deny thy self!

Many people don't realize until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are.

Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.

This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.

Don't seek the truth. Just cease to cherish opinions.

So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger.

I try to find myself in things but never quite make it and end up losing myself in them. That is the fate of the ego.

A situation needs to be either dealt with or accepted. Why make it into a problem?

Don't get attached to any words. They are only stepping stones, to be left behind as quickly as possible.

Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.

When a condition or situation that the mind has attached itself to and identified with changes or disappears, the mind cannot accept it. It will cling to the disappearing condition and resist the change. It is almost as if a limb were being torn off your body.

The monks walked on in silence. Five hours later, as they were approaching the lodging temple, Ekido couldn't restrain himself any longer. 'Why did you carry that girl across the road?' he asked. 'We monks are not supposed to do things like that.' 'I put the girl down hours ago,' said Tanzan. 'Are you still carrying her?

Even the Buddha is said to have practiced body denial through fasting and extreme forms of asceticism for six years, but he did not attain enlightenment until after he had given up this practice.

Will you become less when you let go of it?

I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.

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

nonattachment to the fruit of your action is called Karma Yoga. It is described as the path of "consecrated action.

So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

For awhile, I was left with nothing on the physical plane. I had no relationships, no job, no home, no socially defined identity. I spent almost two years sitting on park benches in a state of the most intense joy.

El Buda dice que el dolor o sufrimiento surge por el deseo y que para liberarnos del sufrimiento tenemos que cortar los lazos del deseo.