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.

After the ‘wow’, what?

Wowness-deludes. There is a ‘wow’ virus affecting our times. It’s there invisible and strong, changing form, influencing our lives and mind, wanting us to live in the heady wow-thrill.  The advertising agents are great patrons and exploiters of it. We want our lives to have that extra sheen, so we look for or create hype. Weave a magic web of maya, create castles of rainbow-dreams, make it appear larger than life. Entice with illusion. We expect something that doesn’t really exist till then, all the ‘thought manifestation’ literature serves as a hope booster. If you think hard enough and long enough it will happen – the windfall, the soul-mate, the dream house, the perfect job.  And why not, the Wright brothers dreamed and manifested the airplane and so did the scientists and inventors. We'll be the next, such is the power of dreams. The mad, the creative artists, the lovers, you, I, us... lose ourselves in make-believe worlds. Lose.  We live in hope than in reality.  We hope life, social-systems, destinies and other people will change, maybe we will too in the process. A lot of energy is spent in dreaming, hoping and trying create worlds inspired by wow-ness. 

To work to create, to build, to dream, to hope is a part of the bigger picture, agreed, but only a part.  We seldom understand that we are a part of the picture, a fibre in the fabric.  We perceive the tail of the elephant or the tusk, if you like, not the whole. Life’s reality independent of hype, independent of our own power of thoughts and feelings, hits through now and then. Usually when something breaks or fades – a relationship, a success story, a loss. That’s when we realize that there’s a reality beyond our dreams and our knowledge, independent and untouched by them as it were.

Wisdom is not just about creating a world of our dreams, it’s also about accepting that there is a world beyond our dreams, knowledge and power. 

Joy-paths

Joy is a spilled-over cup. When you have plentiful free flowing energy, it becomes joy. Of course, it can become anger and restlessness too, but when the channels are clear and ready, it becomes joy. It’s a lot about keeping the paths - the joy-paths clean, so when there’s an energy gush, they can flow on the track of joy. The neurons catch fire and explode, the energy patterns get established in the brain and the nervous system, that trigger of feelings of exuberant joy.

A delicious yawn is joyful, it doesn’t mean much if you are polite and suppress it. It’s a yawn, not a biscuit. You can’t break it into pieces. The joy of the yawn is in its fullness, in the open mouthed, loud, gutsy release of breath and sound. Politeness in a yawn doesn’t work - it kills the energy. The spiritual life doesn’t teach politeness, it teaches naturalness and a discipline which is not forced but intrinsic, or at least properly assimilated.

Kick the football hard and send it flying! Treating the football like a rose is not being polite but silly. Yet, we can’t seem to tell the difference unless the forms are as obvious as the football or the rose. That’s the secret in being able to see what is, as it is. It is not necessary to have a stock behavior of politically correct necessities, but a living vision. To see clearly helps to keep the internal paths clean and joy can flow when it will.

Words are Worlds

Words are an opening in the opaque wall of non-seeing that surrounds us. They puncture a hole in this and we can glimpse through a word, the other side, albeit not the whole picture. What does a word do? It points a finger. Hate… admire… mesmerise... fall in love, kick the bucket… blessed with a child… ‘Aaschi’ (coming) say the Bengalis while bidding goodbye, one word for teacher in Hindi is ‘guru’ (dispeller of darkness), in Punjabi they greet by saying ‘sat sri akal’ (the timeless almighty is truth). The phrase, the word, points to a paradigm of experience. It’s a ghost friend. It leads us invisibly, subtly and haunts us is ways we don’t often realize. A word is a world. There are more words about a thing, a shade of emotion, a type of experience in a certain culture. Hard to define, impossible to translate exactly... each word is unique, so is each language. It connects you to particular part of the fabric of consciousness accessible to the human. So, when you absorb a language, you absorb a world, or at least are led to that threshold. An alchemy happens as we absorb words with their meanings and connotations, our emotions and thoughts are led into these micro worlds. This is how we form perspectives, this is how we connect to the collective fabric of a race, a community through language.

Specifics are sacred

Specifics are sacred. It is through these that the divine takes a form.  Forms are to be respected, as the whole journey of the earth has been to reach that form. A looking down upon approach on the manifest form will not do. It is a denial of the cosmic unfolding. So, specifics are important, sometimes they can be hard because it is at this stage that the blocks are more concentrated and hard to melt. But when all the specific and individual forces that are meant to connect are open, great beginnings can happen. Yet, if one or two of those who are supposed to be involved are blocked the others too will face a problem, because the alchemy of manifestation is about the confluence and melting of various forces. Help people in dissolving blocks with love, if and wherever possible. When a block is melted in one person, it opens channels for many people.

‘Spiritual forces’ can help up to a point, the rest is really about free choices of the individuals concerned. 

Human and Happy

Happiness is a free flow.  It flows through created forms and structures that are unique to a world like ours, not available to the subtle worlds. The human form has a chance to have these unique experiences. Humans need to remember this and not get bogged down by ‘problems’.  This earth is a unique place, its privileges should be recognized. To be born here is often seen as a confinement.  While it is not the same as being in a world or level, where form is more fluid and less rigid… the earthy-ness is a lab for developing aspects that will not come easy elsewhere.

Beings that have been sent here to absorb these energies and to participate in this energy exchange should see it as a privilege. You may crib about being confined, but it is through this confinement that the alchemy happens. Recognize this and see it for what it is - a great opportunity and privilege.  Don’t let limiting beliefs cloud your joy.  Life is a mystery-story, enjoy its unfolding. The author knows when to bring in the turn! Dramatic or no, seemingly small or large, important or minor, all are necessary for the complete book. Enjoy your part without complaining about not being the creator. Don’t look upon destiny as doom. It is written with love, this human debate about what is free and how far you’re are the creator of your own destiny comes from the lacking of realization of the total picture. Those who know, do not have this niggling dilemma eat into them, they just laugh.  Laugh even if you don’t know!

Messages

Messages are packets of energy… they flow through channels much like electricity. The specific message is meant to travel through these channels, it has a path and is meant more specifically for beings at a particular juncture of evolutionary unfolding. So, it is not about going via mass media or going into hiding and being hard to access. Both extreme approaches will involve loss of energy or waste. It is about creating appropriate paths. In doing so, some amount of mass approach or even some amount of introversive approach may be necessary,  ultimately the message that is meant for someone will reach if they are open, at the opportune time. 

Just be an open channel. Neither seek too hard nor reject too hard, a state of quiet receptivity and openness will help.