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Letting Go

Posted by Will on June 4, 2009 at 3:46pm in Spirituality In General
To many this may seem like remedial spirituality, but there's aspects of letting go that even the most spiritually advanced would do well to remember. Nearly everyone has some understanding of what it means to let go, though there are some more subtle parts not everyone has a complete understanding of. For instance, when you let something go, that doesn't mean you have to get rid of it. Letting go only means to drop your attachments to it.Attachment is desire, it's holding on to something because you're afraid you might lose it. This is actually quite pointless, in addition to being a waste of Energy. When become attached to something, some of your Energy goes into the attachment which feeds into your unconsciousness. You wouldn't want to be constantly afraid of losing whatever it is, so even though the fear is still there, it's ignored. The fear is put in the back of your mind where it still feeds upon your Energy, but you are no longer conscious of it. Now, just one attachment may not drain too much Energy, but most people have thousands upon thousands. The Energy that could be used for Conscious Creation in the Present Moment, is all tied up in unconscious attachments. People may have the Freedom of Choice, but when all their Energy is going into the bonds of attachment, they forget their Freedom and become slaves to those things they're trying to control.Let's say you have a favorite pair of sunglasses. You paid a lot for them and you really don't want to lose them. You become attached to them, and since the attachment doesn't do you any good, you stuff it into your unconsciousness. Now let's say you're having a sandwich at a local deli. They put far too much pepper on the sandwich, you inhale some of it, sneeze, your precious sunglasses go flying off your head, and shatter onto the floor. Now all that stuff that was lurking in your unconsciousness comes to the forefront and the fear of losing your sunglasses now becomes anger and frustration at having lost them. For most people, this is the point they finally let go of something. When it's gone, the pointlessness of attachment becomes quite obvious, though there are some who will go on regretting things like this for a whole lifetime.Now, let's take the exact same scenario, but this time you aren't attached to the sunglasses. Having the glasses is a conscious choice, and whatever happens to them happens. There's no use crying over spilt milk. This doesn't mean you are careless with them, it means keeping them around is motivated by a conscious decision, not a fear of loss. Instead of your Energy being drained by an attachment, it's actually multiplied by your enjoyment of them. Then comes the fateful day at the deli. The glasses go shattering onto the floor, and yet you remain whole. Given the choice, you would have kept them, but you understand that these things happen for reasons we have no control over. Now, instead of anger and frustration, you walk away thinking perhaps you shouldn't spend so much on sunglasses that aren't built very well.Conscious choices lead to greater Freedom, unconscious choices lead to the attachments that bind us. Really, there's no such thing as an unconscious choice, if you aren't even aware of what you're choosing, you aren't really choosing it. Our society has an advertising industry that revolves around this concept. They play off people's unconscious desires and insert attachments in there. When people are zombified by television, they're quite suggestible. I'm sure some people would love to deny this, but if it wasn't true, there'd be no such thing as commercials. The whole thing is extremely calculated. People are most suggestible when they're the most emotional. If you pay close attention, you'll notice shows normally cut to commercials in their most emotionally-charged moments.You may ask what this has to do with letting go, but to truly master letting go, one must understand attachment. One needs to understand where the attachments come from and why they become attached. Without being conscious of these things, you could easily let go of one attachment while unconsciously creating five more. Letting go is wonderful, but not forging the attachment in the first place works even better.What of people who don't want to let go? It's easy to imagine ignorant religious fundamentalists behaving this way, but often it's just as bad with very “spiritual” people. They may have completely let go of their beliefs at some point, but often these were just replaced with a new set of beliefs they're even more attached to. This can make it even more difficult to progress than before. It's like taking a giant leap forward but not noticing you're jumping into a pit. There's no point in holding on to any belief, True Reality is far larger than any belief can encompass. Beliefs are always going to come up short, so you have Everything to gain by letting them go.Most mystical traditions have a parable that equates a person with a cup. For most, their cup is so full of stagnant water (attachments) that even though fresh water is constantly being offered, there's nowhere for it to go. First, the person must empty their cup before they can receive higher understandings. Some people pour out a little at a time, and they get a little fresh water in return, some pour out a lot, and the get a lot in return, and some dump out the whole cup and let Spirit completely refresh them. This is how it is with letting you, you get as much as you are willing to give.Lastly, I'd like to discuss a type of attachment that's been given special attention by our society, addiction. Really, every attachment is an addiction, but there's certain ones that are considered “bad” attachments and receive extra attention. Let's say I drink heavily. I don't do it because I enjoy it, I do it to ignore the problems in my life. One day my friends and family come, talk about how much I'm hurting them and myself, and pressure me into quitting. I've been off the stuff for three years, and not only have I not been drinking, I now give motivational speeches at high schools about how bad it is being an alcoholic. I'm now completely against alcohol, so I'm no longer attached to it right? Nope, in being against something you have just as much, if not more, of an attachment to it. This type of attachment is carefully packaged and sold in our society even though it actually encourages what it seeks to prevent. Telling underage kids not to drink actually promotes drinking, and yet despite mountains of evidence to support this, society still does it. The “War on Drugs” only increased drug use, the “War on Terror” only promoted terrorism. Resistance is still attachment and it only draws closer what one seeks to prevent. Experience has proven this again and again, yet people are still reluctant to acknowledge what this means. It's through letting go of our conflicts that we truly conquer them. Buddha understood this and spoke about letting go of all our desires to achieve Enlightenment. Jesus said the exact same thing, though he called letting go forgiveness.Love,Willgflcentral.ning.com
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    • Will > Darth Vindex June 4, 2009 at 9:31pm
      I agree, thankfulness is very important. When we see every experience in our lives as an opportunity for advancement, we transform our resistance into personal growth.
    • Will > Darth Vindex June 4, 2009 at 9:26pm
      Yes, it's quite easy to become attached to "letting go". There's a danger in getting so wrapped up in the Spiritual Journey you don't realize you're already HERE.
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