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The Goal Of Non-attachment
When we can simply allow life to unfold naturally without being attached to outcomes, beliefs, feelings or opinions, then we experience true non-attachment.
Picture this process of detachment like being an ice cube that slowly melts down into a puddle of flowing water. Water, like the practice of non-attachment, flows with life effortlessly and peacefully, whereas ice cubes do not. The goal of non-attachment, therefore, is to become like water.
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What is Non-Attachment?
Non-attachment is not about being a cold or emotionally dead brick wall, instead, it’s about learning how to let go of the thoughts and emotions that create suffering.
Once we can stop being so attached to our thoughts, we experience tremendous relief,
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Consider the trees which allow the birds to perch and fly away without either inviting them to stay or desiring them never to depart. If your heart can be like this, you will be near to the Way.
ZEN SAYING
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Non-attachment
True non-attachment is quite the opposite: it allows us to live in this world fully, without being attached to people, things or thoughts that create suffering.
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Attach not thyself to anything unless in it thou seest the reality of God.
ABDU’L-BAHA (BAHÁ’Í FAITH)
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Detachment is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you.
ALI IBN ABI TALIB (ISLAM)
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When we come to non-attachment, 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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA (HINDU TRADITION)
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