Letting go

Letting go is not an art, it is a happening.  

A timeless moment, when the mind jumps out of the linear mode of how and when.  When there is an easing off, not an effort to do or push - it’s a letting, a fall, an allowing. To try to gain or to try to rid, is one and the same type of energy. There is no essential transformation that can happen when it comes to the deeper layers with this.  These ‘efforts’ are movements of the mind and necessary for doing things in the world. 

To push or to pull requires exertion whether it is of acquisition or removal of something undesirable, letting go is of a different nature, a separate dimension.  When I truly let go, there is no ‘I’ there, no effort, no sense of egoistic achievement that strengthens the self. It is a consciousness shift and it connects us to our deeper being. Letting go is going within, on an effortless breeze.  The linear mind always asks, ‘Yes, but how to let go?’  That’s the paradox! The ‘how’ puts you on the same track, try, try, try… all trying takes us to the point where it has to be dropped, where you see the futility of trying, where you simply… let go.  That is not a doing, it is a happening.