“Just Detach From False Mental Objects And Be Enlightened To Being-As-Is”

A day without work is a day without food.

Your treasure house is within; it contains all you’ll ever need.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

There is in fact no such thing as art for art’s sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.

Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.

I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’

I think the first thing that you need to detach yourself from is numbers, because music has now splintered off into so many different forms of media, MTV doesn’t play videos, the radio is now competing with the Internet.

To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.