Quotes About Nonattachment

The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear.

There are no rules. Nothing you can do will take you to liberation; therefore, nothing you avoid will help you along the path to liberation.. Everything is liberation.

We talked about this before. The rare beauty of nonattachment.

Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.

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

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

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

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

In the Bhagavad Gita, one of the oldest and most beautiful spiritual teachings in existence, nonattachment to the fruit of your action is called Karma Yoga. It is described as the path of "consecrated action.

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

Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.

When you have that contentment within, whether or not you achieve your goals, I think success becomes more likely." "The paradox of nonattachment," agreed Serena.

My two valuable lessons are: avoid romanticism and abhor possessiveness.

RAIN. First you Recognize the feeling. Then you Accept the feeling (rather than try to drive it away). Then you Investigate the feeling and its relationship to your body. Finally, the N stands for Nonidentification, or, equivalently, Nonattachment. Which is a nice note to end on, since not being attached to things was the Buddha's all-purpose prescription for what ails us.

Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality.

The trick is not to make an idea or a system out of this openness, a new dogma.

RAIN. First you Recognize the feeling. Then you Accept the feeling (rather than try to drive it away). Then you Investigate the feeling and its relationship to your body. Finally, the N stands for Nonidentification, or, equivalently, Nonattachment

An attachment is not a fact. It is a belief, a fantasy, in your head, acquired through programming. If that fantasy did not exist inside your head, you would not be attached. You would love things and people, and you would enjoy them thoroughly, but on a nonattachment basis. As a matter of fact, is there any other way to really enjoy something?

The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

Love and nonattachment are the basis of true generosity.

As the eighth-century Chinese Zen master Sen-ts'an wrote: The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose; Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart; If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease.

Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything.

W]ith the sense of self gone, ... actions naturally become uncalculated and free.

Dogen-zenji said, "To give is nonattachment." That is, just not to attach to anything is to give.