a.k.a. nekkhamma, relinquishment, renunciation, surrender
This is a central part of Buddhist thought, and a version of it is also important in stoicism: much of what is around you is outside of your control, and if you try to pretend otherwise, you’re setting yourself up for frustration.
Complementary virtues¶
Contrasting vices¶
- graspingness
- inability to let go
Virtues possibly in tension¶
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How to acquire or strengthen it¶
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Notes and links¶
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Mentioned elsewhere¶
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Inspirational quotes¶
- “That which we call our own is but lent us; and what we have received gratis we must return without complaint. That which fortune gives us this hour, she may take away the next; and he that trusts to her favor, shall either find himself deceived, or if he be not, he will at least be troubled, because he may be so. But the best of it is, if a man cannot mend his fortune, he may yet mend his manners, and put himself so far out of her reach, that whether she gives or takes, it shall be all one to us; for we are neither the greater for the one, nor the less for the other.” ―Seneca
