How to practice detachment

How to Practice detachment This poem below has been very useful in How to Practice detachment: I have no parents: I make the heaven and earth my parents. I have no home: I make awareness my home. I have no life and death: I make the tides of breathing my life and death. I have no divine powers: I make honesty my divine power. I have no means: I make understanding my means. I have no secrets: I make character my secret. I have no body: I make endurance my body. I have no eyes: I make the flash of lightening my eyes. I have no ears: I make sensibility my ears. I have no limbs: I make promptness my limbs. I have no strategy: I make "unshadowed by thought" my strategy. I have no design: I make "seizing opportunity by the forelock" my design. I have no miracles: I make right action my miracle. I have no principles: I make adaptability to all circumstances my principle. I have no tactics: I make emptiness and fullness my tactics. I have no talent: I make ready wit my talent. I have no friends: I make my mind my friend. I have no enemy: I make carelessness my enemy. I have no armor: I make benevolence and righteousness my armor. I have no castle: I make immovable mind my castle. I have no sword: I make absence of self my sword. a warrior's creed - anonymous samurai song - 14th century