Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
Interpretation
Act without attachment to outcomes and without seeking validation from others.
This quote emphasizes the importance of performing actions selflessly and without a desire for recognition or reward. It encourages a mindset of detachment, suggesting that true fulfillment comes from the act itself rather than external validation.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a motivational talk about selfless service to encourage volunteers.
Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You'll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy. Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are - no holding on, no attachment, free.
When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.
If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate.
To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues. Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one's own mind.
Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.
The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are.
There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.
If you take the the insults of your fellow human beings personally, you will be offended for the rest of your life.
I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.
I see my whole 20s as a massive experiment. So were my teens. I think the problem is that we're not encouraged to experiment; we're encouraged to decide and choose, be singular and focused. You can't be that until you experiment. You don't know what's going to work until you try it.
Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you - to make you realise that you are a part of Spirit and that just behind the sparks of your life is the Flame of Infinity.
The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway.
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