“Let go” is a big thing in the spiritual domain and very much the New Age Mantra.
The essential message in today's spiritual circuits appears to be…….get into Being and Let go will happen.
Is that so?
The possibility of getting into Being(whatever that is held to be)….. means that somehow you have got out of Being.
Thus Being is something that is perched on some mountain top, and you are somewhere in the depth of the dark valley, smacking your lips looking up to this Being-thingy and calculating how to get to it.
As if Being is something that can be isolated and thus cognized, observed ….which then allows a defining, and hence a referring of it……
….which further allows this whole game of getting into Being …….by letting go whatever that was supposedly holding you away …(which obviously had to be out of Being) ……in order to hold you out of Being.
Aka, the kid who has to be dragged away from a ride in Disney Land, for a yucky spinach laced dinner, called Being…. which is supposed to be good for the kid.
The baloney , peddled in the name of spirituality is simply divine.
What is this Let-Go?
Is it a let-go……..if the intention is to get something in return ……as a quid-pro-quo… …. aka this something wonderful …..Being?
Is it a Let-Go, if from the corner of your eyes, there is watching out ……has Being entered the room?
If one keeps aside all this drivel about let-go…...
.......in that open space.......there is understanding .....
.....that the very issue of “let-go”…needs a pre-existing claim of ownership ….of that which is sought to be let-gone.
Without this sense of ownership, without this sense of claim…..
...whether it is about material thingies…
…. whether it is of relationships…
.. whether it is of thoughts, in the form of decisions(life impacting or mundane)...
......whether it is of great spiritual understandings …
….without this sense of ownership…
…. the extreme form of which is the sense of possession…
…the further extreme form is the sense of possessiveness…..
…without this sense of claim or ownership…
…..you might as well as let-go of the yonder blue moon in the star-lit dark sky.
Let-go…….has nothing to do with let-go.
Let-go has nothing to do with any acquisition as an end-result of the letting-go.
Let-go……is primarily to do with the unraveling of this sense of possession, this sense of ownership, this sense of claim.
Seen, that at the very birth…..the hands were empty……….and at death, the same hands will still remain empty….
....one “re-turns” to see….. in this brief interlude between these two events of “birth” and “death”..
…..whether anything really got acquired…… whether anything really got owned, whether anything really got possessed…
…. whether any held claim ……stands the scrutiny.
It is fairly easy to see that while one might have societal documents to show ownership about material stuff…..none of that really matters …......as none of them carry a warranty beyond the demise of the biological object that has been held to be oneself.
The difficulty is to see this in the domain of relationships…… whether they are the very dear ones or the not so dear ones……
….and in the realm of achievements, either mental or physical.
Where lies this difficulty?
It lies in the persisting conviction……….that it is this very claim of ownership ……….which defines oneself to oneself.
Without the YouTube recordings of teaching Let-Go…(aka I teach, ergo I know, ergo I am)…..who is oneself?
Without being….. that wonderful mother…… that wonderful partner….. that environmental/political/social activist....
.... that “supreme channeler” of messages from outer dimensions……..
…who is oneself?
And then we have the usual possessions of being a Christian, of being a Hindu, of being a Buddhist, of being a Jesuit, of being a Merkabist, of being a Kabbalist, of being a Scientologist…
…. of being a Non-Dualist…
…of being a Savior….
…..without all these claims…….who is oneself?
A sense of claim…………needs the sense of the claimant.
The sense of claimant, as a sense of an individuated , separative, volitional self…
…….defined by the array of sense of possessions/claims.
Seen, that such an entity is only a notion………it is seen the very sense of a claimant-self is an ideation…
…that there is no possibility to isolate any aspect……. any thing in life.
To isolate something means that something has a definitive start, and a definitive end, i.e. boundaries can be drawn around “it”.
Without the possibility of isolating of even the sense of the claimant –entity……what things, what relationships, what definings…what “discrete-ness” …can be isolated?
Thus…what claims ……..about what?
And without any claim………..what let-go …….of what claim?
The empty hands remain completely empty, even in the brief interlude between “birth” and “death”…
…which themselves cannot be discreted….. cannot be isolated as “events”.
Were you born?
Or what was .......as if ........born…….a duration……in which you as an apparently discrete object…
…became .......as–if ….......visible?
So, is this an advocacy of tearing up the title deeds of your residential property or giving it away in charity……emptying your Bank account to some half-assed Guru/teacher/Master….. …or walking away from a relationship………..as being in let go?
That may or may not get to occur ……as nuances of the flow of totality…..but that is not necessarily being in let-go.
Being-in-let-go……….is when the presence ………of what is conventionally defined as possessions, what is defined as identities…
…OR their absence…… ..in BOTH conditions……..one sees only one's empty hands.
One sees, that ……neither…….the presence or absence …..of anything which typifies Life…
… defines oneself.
Let go ….is existing in a state ( to use a term)…..when “let-go” has no meaning, no relevance, no cognition…
… irrespective of how one's life unfolds in the moment…… moment to moment to moment… …because there is none to stake a claim ……in the first place.
One is so lost in oneself…..that even “oneself”…….cannot be isolated and referred to…
…while there is the simultaneous seemingly full and complete engagement ……
…in and as ……this gestalt of appearances.
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