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> 14 quotes tagged "detachment"
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Favor and disgrace seem like fear to the world. Honor and big position seem like danger to the world.Tao Te Ching – Chapter 13
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Let the senses go. Let desires go. Let conflicts go. Let ideas go. Let the fiction of life and death go. Just remain in the center, watching. And then forget that you are there.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 10
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To the highly evolved being, there is no such thing as tolerance, because there is no such thing as other. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 15
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Whether destruction awaits the world or no, why should I trouble my head about it?Lieh Tzu, Book 1: Cosmogony
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I existed before my son was born. What reason have I, then, to mourn?Lieh Tzu, Book 6: Effort and Destiny
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They did not seek for posthumous fame and took no heed of rank or lifespan length. This detachment from external validation enabled genuine freedom and peace.Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure, Ch. 3
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How one's body is treated after death matters little—whether burned, buried, or left unburied depends entirely on chance circumstances beyond our control.Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure, Ch. 8
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Having once come into life regard it and let it pass; mark its desires and wishes, and so wait death. True peace emerges from witnessing existence without clinging to it.Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure, Ch. 11
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If you pay no regard to life and death, and let them be as they are, how can you be anxious lest our life should end too soon? Releasing concern about duration brings liberation.Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure, Ch. 11
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Tyrants like Chieh and Chow lived contentedly, ignorant of censure and unconscious of praise, ultimately no different from trees or earth after death.Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure, Ch. 13
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I am not the owner of my own body, for I, when I am born, must complete it. We inherit rather than possess our physical form.Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure, Ch. 16
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He who regards as common property a body appertaining to the universe and the things of the universe is a perfect man. Perfection emerges through viewing all possessions as belonging to the cosmos.Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure, Ch. 16
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Appetites induce loss of spirit. Excessive sensory indulgence prevents living a full life. Freedom comes through recognizing that material possessions add nothing essential to our nature.Huai Nan Tzu, Essay 3
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Practice restraint in taking and abundance in giving.T'ai-Shang Kan-Ying P'ien – Moral Injunctions