Nonattachment Quotes

[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)

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

I really think I want to live in a lot of places.I don't want possessions to hold me down.

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.

Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.

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.

The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance to events, that is to say, being at one with what happens. The story of the man whose comment was invariably a laconic "Maybe" illustrates the wisdom of nonjudgment, and the story of the ring points to the fact of impermanence which, when recognized, leads to nonattachment. Nonresistance, nonjudgement, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

You are the witness, to whom things happen but who remains a witness. Witnessing is the art of nonidentification, and nonidentification is all. Nonidentification is all there is to meditation. It is the whole meditation.

The secret to enlightenment is to lighten up. Whether you are talking rock or women, all there.

[on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.

I really floated around in the '60s, because I felt comfortable with nothing.

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith.

When you climb a ladder and arrive on the sixth step and you think that is the highest, then you cannot come to the seventh. So the technique is to abandon the sixth in order for the seventh step to be possible. And this is our practice, to release our views. The practice of nonattachment to views is at the heart of the Buddhist practice of meditation.

Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.

I've learned to let things roll off my back.

All Buddhas and ordinary people are just one mind. This mind is beyond all measurements, names, oppositions: this very being is it; as soon as you stir your mind you turn away from it.

It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.

Don't take things too seriously.

I don't take anything personal.

Take life seriously but none of the people in it.

When we come to nonattachment, then we can understand the marvelous mystery of the universe: how it is intense activity and at the same time intense peace, how it is work every moment and rest every moment.

The only true immortality is when you don't care if you die. The moment you stop giving credence to gain is when you become invulnerable to pain.

If women feel they are able to go from partner to partner without feeling emotionally invested and ultimately hurt, they should go for it.

Material things don't matter.