Letting go. The simplest, but hardest thing to do...

It's funny but this only recently hit me as well this last week (as an explosion rocked the porta john I was in actually) and it was quite liberating. 

Good one Dharma.

Hard to do.. but worth it all in the end.

Let go.

The simplest, but hardest thing to do...

Aint that the truth....

(as an explosion rocked the porta john I was in actually) and it was quite liberating.

Well, you were in the right place....I mean, at least you wouldn't have needed to change your underwear.  Thinking that you might die is very liberating, actually.  I was thinking about the same thing myself last week...

 

Hard to do.. but worth it all in the end.

Amen to that.

Dharma, that’s great. If we could “let go” then we would free ourselves from worldly expectations and emotional baggage. We can trust the beneficence and grace of life, and free ourselves from worry or fear. We would then be able to see the world through the eyes of a child, (as you described in another blog), which is the most liberating way to live, I think.

Even though some people may find this difficult to accept, I believe it’s within the human potential to do it. Buddhism teaches that to experience life as God is within the human potential. That’s a fantastic and true message, because the stuff of God (i.e. spirit, which is immortal and free), is Who We Really Are.

In the light of your inspiring thought, might I add an interesting book to your list. 'Let Go and Let God' by Albert E Cliffe. As a bacheolor living at the Y.M.C.A. in 1977, I recieved a visit from a very tall woman by the name of Greta Human. She had the smile so beautiful and rosy cheeks and long wavy black hair. She literally tumbled into my room and explained to me that Jesus had shown her to bring me this beautiful book. The geniune simpliciy of the statement of letting go is profound, though I do believe to be fully alive one needs to feel the pain of loss, deeply otherwise it might be clearly admitted that on never really lived with full accountabiliity. When my Dad died, I never was allowed to see him, never told that he had even died until two weeks after the fact. Mourning is natural and shows deep respect for a life lived well. However, I would like to add the Christian Perspective. To die is not an introduction to successive rebirths, and eventually nothing, as with the nature of NIrvana. Death in final. It is the end of this physical life, and one will not be reintroduced to play out another cycle in the wheel. Death is the exit. Death can either be joy or tradgedy. Death can be swallowed up in victory for a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. Why? Because He died, so that as we identify with Him in death, we are risen with Him into newness of life. In this life yes you can let go, but you will not be able to let go of death, you will only be able to echo with Paul....Oh death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory, when you have completely surrendered to the Lord Jesus Christ. Then you will most definitely be able to let go. There are resting place along the way, but the Tibetan Book of the Dead is not one of them.

Dharma, you're putting all my EMS buddies out of business!!! How many patients have I puffed and sweated over, in an Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) frenzy, telling them, "Hang On!" ;~D

I joke around, but yes, I do understand what you (through the Tibetan Book Of The Dead) are trying to say. Yes, it is a beautiful message that would bring peace to a lot of lives.

I guess there are times to let go, and time to hang on. The problem is, figuring out the difference. ;~D

To die is not an introduction to successive rebirths, and eventually nothing . . . It is the end of this physical life, and one will not be reintroduced to play out another cycle in the wheel

Aeryck, that's a hearty faith, but I think an "I believe" wouldn't go amiss before sentences like that. Many people believe in re-incarnation, and in my view it's a logical belief. (Do you think that one chance alone is a fair deal? What about handicapped people, or infants who die young?) I believe that once we're in Heaven we get opportunities to freely choose to come back down to earth, in order to experience another life with the intention of doing better than the last one. Eventually, due to the natural laws of growth, we will become enlightened, and will learn that love is the answer. (What's more, we'll see that all our so-called 'bad' lives were good, in that they served the development and learning of our souls.)

In the late 1800's Charles Taze Russell came up with this particular doctrine and proved it his book, 'The Divine Plan of the Ages' It came about as a direct result of a huge drop off in Church attendance because of the Darwinian Theory of Evolution. [Baker Street] Are you perhaps, of the original Bible Student stock? If so I understand, if not then I believe you been indoctrinated by a false doctrine [source - devils]. Which is nowere found in the Bible.[aeryck - bakerstreet]

Dharma, I beg your pardon for being so forthright on your blogg, but I would hate to be responsible for allowing anyone to end up in the Lake of Fire,[Tophet/Gehenna], without at least hearing the truth once. 'It is given unto man once to die and after that the Judgment' [The Bible].

I wrote a song for a friend (he is the one I've mentioned previously as having days where he is particularly difficult to be around). The song is called 'Let It Go'. I sang it to him one evening and he picked up straight away who it was about. He said to me at the time he realised what I was trying to say but found it difficult to do. I pointed out the only difficult thing I could see was his lack of faith in his own ability to let go. My song was my way of giving him something he could hopefully use.

because the stuff of God (i.e. spirit, which is immortal and free), is Who We Really Are

'We are all made of stars'... to quote Moby. Same thing, just different words, I believe.