attachment

Try not to seek after the trueOnly cease to cherish opinions. (172)

Abide not with dualism,Carefully avoid pursuing it;As soon as you have right and wrong,Confusion ensues, and Mind is lost. (172)

My trouble is that I think there is a track that things should stay on. I'm hooked to a belief that life should go a certain way. I develop an attachment to Plan A and set up my expectations accordingly. An important part of spiritual practice is to learn to let go, to recognize that Plan A exists only in my head.

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

My goal is not to upset the apple cart, but to make it more accessible.

Where do you see conflict in this world? Only where there is infatuation (attachment).

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state ... Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air is a similar draught, and, if it works less thoroughly, does so more quickly.

Mind control is built on lies and manipulation of attachment needs.Valerie Sinason, (Forward)

Desire also creates a sense of attachment in the mind. Not only are we attached to our way of thinking and of seeing the world, but we become over-attached to the people or things we desire.

When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.

We are not what we do!

Taming attachment,does not mean becoming cold and disinterested. On the contrary, it means learning to have a composed control over our mind through understanding

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It__ not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it__ true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we__e been attaching to, often for years.

I don't see money as evil or good: how can illusion be evil or good? But I don't see heroin or meth as evil or good, either. Which is more addictive & debilitating, money or meth? Attachment to illusion makes you illusion, makes you not real. Attachment to illusion is called idolatry, called addiction.

You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day.

When you love someone, you end up caring about each and every person they love. When you hate someone, you end up caring about every single person who hates them.