☯ On Letting Go

You cannot let go of anything.

I've encountered teachings from bloggers such as Cathy Eck that say we can reprogram the mind by letting go of false or untrue thoughts and beliefs.

After working for several years to practice this "letting go," I discovered why it only served to keep me "holding on" and going round and round again and again through the experience of separation and suffering.

Separation is inherent in the phrase "let go."

Telling someone to let go of anything, is wholly reinforcing separation, judgement, and of course, suffering. It maintains the root idea that you are an individual holding on—to something else.

This is not possible.

In reality, there is no "holding on" happening at all. When it comes to communication and thinking, linguistics are extremely important. The root meaning of words lay at the heart of all creation and experience, which is why Truth can never be spoken. Truth is Silence. The rise of perception is the dawn of illusion.

Recognition. Clarity.

These words point much more closely to freedom than "letting go" ever could. These words strike down the very root of the separate 'me' thought that maintains awareness' identification with forms.

I discovered how 'letting go' is but a clever perpetuation of the separation edict: "Seek...but do not find." It's a fundamental and appealing linguistic artifice. Serving only to add more and more apparent freedoms to the prison cell itself. It does not direct the focus where it belongs: on what supposedly needs to do all of this letting go to begin with.

☯ Death of the Ego

No two seekers are alike. 

Many people share similarities, but everyone's path is unique, and for guidance to be effective, everyone needs to be met where they are in consciousness.

One of the road blocks I encountered along the path was speaking to people who unwittingly had a "one size fits all" coaching or mentoring style. I found that a great many well-known spiritual teachers and gurus do.

There is only one destination, but infinite experiences of getting there.

When "you" realize there is no you, the ego, which is like a deep hypnotic trance, ends, or evaporates. All is seen as impersonal, and the mind no longer creates a separate person who exists within a life experience. You become aware that you are the entire experience this apparently separate "you" has been appearing to live!

Your body seems separate from the rest of the world, but there has to appear to be something other than you in order for a "you" to be identifiable or defined.

This realization is the only "end of time" there is.