[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Christianity also talks of “leaving” ( and this can be considered “killing” renouncing ) your mother and father...
It is metaphorical to leave attachments and follow Jesus or in the case of the other, the enlightened way.

[TigersEye]

I was thinking of that very passage but don't know it well enough to quote it or identify its book and paragraph. That is very similar to what those quotes from a Buddhist teacher are about. All identification with self has to be let go of.