7 May 2021

Clarify Mind: 4 of 12: Let Go

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Can I let go of a sticky thought, a not-so-thrilling memory or moment, or an experience from an unpleasant situation or hurt from an interaction with someone? Can I hold it in my awareness, detach from it as a witness, accept it, let it be, and let it pass through?

Nothing is permanent. All compounded phenomena, including me, disintegrate. Experiences, situations, lives, generations, and civilizations come and go. There is nothing that I can hold on to. I let go of resistance to change. I let go of the urge to hold on to things, people, and situations.

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I am interconnected in the vast web of relationships and energy field that lead me to run into situations, invite weather of thoughts, and people. Each of them is an opportunity for me to neutralize something from the past or to fulfill a contract. Can I accept it, invite it, let it be, and look at it with a peaceful mind? That mindset can help me let go and help clarify my mind from the clutter of recurring thinking patterns.

Letting go requires being transparent to the fears and insecurities, to the pull of likes and dislikes, desires, attachments, and body pains and aches. Can I be aware of them and let them play out in the field of total awareness? When my thoughts unconsciously sweep me away, it can filter, color, bend, or shape my view – can I capture those sticky moments in my awareness?

Letting go is letting be – it requires accepting the reality as is.

Quote from Eckhart Tolle:

To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state no longer depends on things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve significantly. Things, people, or situations that you thought you needed for your happiness now come to you with no struggle or effort, and you are free to enjoy and appreciate them – while they last. All those things, of course, will still pass away; cycles will come and go, but with dependency gone, there is no fear of loss anymore. Life flows with ease.

What are your thoughts?