Quotes About Desireless

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

To become desireless, to not want anything external to ourselves, means we rest in ourselves, whole, joyous and happy. In this state, our true nature is constant love, unending love, giving love.

You are the One seer of all: unattached, formless and witness of all you are. The Self is witness, all-pervading, One, actionless, desireless. Know the Self as the witness of all, and Consciousness itself—you are not the body, nor is the body yours, nor are you the doer. You are the eternal Witness, and free.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Tao is both named and nameless. As nameless it is the origin of all things; as named it is the Mother of 10,000 things. Ever desireless, one can see the mystery; ever desiring, one sees only the manifestations. And the mystery itself is the doorway to all understanding.

He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!

Suzuki Shosan writes in his Roankyo the following passages, some of which have been quoted before: In training in Zen in recent years many people seem to have forgotten that Zen includes a great spirit of bravery and great strength. Therefore, those who train in Zen become tender-hearted, admirable-looking, desireless, and good-natured, but somehow they become divested of the will to respond to any unfavorable stimuli angrily enough to say, "Damn it!