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In Zen Buddhism, there is a concept called nonattachment.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 19, 2022

Aldous Huxley’s 1931 novel of a future marked by genetic engineering, drugs and nonattachment gets a series.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2020

But he remains unhappy in every condition, until he finds that the only true wisdom is nonattachment, a resigned acceptance of everything that happens.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 12, 2018

Since becoming a Buddhist about halfway into his 20-year engagement with the Cubs, Daniel Garrett now screams at the television less often, a benefit of the Buddhist practice of nonattachment, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2016

So bit by bit, while scrubbing and Windexing and buffing, I cobble together a philosophy of glorious nonattachment.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich