Dalai Lama Quotes, Buddhist Quotes, Attachment Quotes

According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent.

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She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

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I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

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Is not virtue a negation of becoming?

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There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .

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If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation.

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Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment.

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There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .

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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

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How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it

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A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.

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Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.

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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

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A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.

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Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind.

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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

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If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.

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I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.

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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

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If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what is so often described as arising on a first interview with its object, and even before two words have been exchanged, nothing can be said in her defence, except that she had given somewhat of a trial to the latter method in her partiality for Wickham, and that its ill success might, perhaps, authorise her to seek the other less interesting mode of attachment.

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