What does letting go means?

[Amanaki]

I know in my answer to many of you guys i use the term "letting go" but i never actually explained what it trully means, so just to clerify a little i found this short answer in www.Buddhanet.net and i found it to be really how i see i too, So here is the short answer to what letting go means,

LETTING GO

If we contemplate desires and listen to them, we are actually no longer attaching to them; we are just allowing them to be the way they are. Then we come to the realisation that the origin of suffering, desire, can be laid aside and let go of.

How do you let go of things? This means you leave them as they are; it does not mean you annihilate them or throw them away. It is more like setting down and letting them be. Through the practice of letting go we realise that there is the origin of suffering, which is the attachment to desire, and we realise that we should let go of these three kinds of desire. Then we realise that we have let go of these desires; there is no longer any attachment to them.

 

Hope this help a little.

[Jack River]

Cultivated let go? 

[Amanaki]

Letting go of attachments is only one part of the cultivation path. But without letting go of all attachments in human life, one can not gain understanding of the truth.  Truth is that life in this realm is suffering because of the human attachments we gain during life in normal sosiety

[Amanaki]

Thsi video explain the the suffering in life very good, and is a good way to see enlightenment

 

[Jack River]

Nice gown dude 

[Amanaki]

Just now, Jack River said:

Nice gown dude 

The monk robe?  All Ordained Buddhist monks wear this for of robe

[Jack River]

Just now, Amanaki said:

The monk robe?  All Ordained Buddhist monks wear this for of robe

Yeah I’ve noticed a few walking around the town I live lately.

 

[Jack River]

What do you mean by cultivation? 

 

[Amanaki]

3 minutes ago, Jack River said:

What do you mean by cultivation? 

 

Cultivation are different from religion . Instead of only believing a teaching is true, one actually living the teaching and follow it as described.

Example in Buddhism we have the teaching of 4 noble truth about suffering and the 8 folded path leading out of suffering.

The truth of suffering (Dukkha)

The truth of the origin of suffering (Samudāya)

The truth of the cessation of suffering (Nirodha)

The truth of the path to the cessation of suffering (Magga)

And the 8 folded path

Right understanding (Samma ditthi)

Right thought (Samma sankappa)

Right speech (Samma vaca) 

Right action (Samma kammanta)

Right livelihood (Samma ajiva) 

Right effort (Samma vayama)

Right mindfulness (Samma sati)

Right concentration (Samma samadhi)

In cultivation we not only follow the guidelines as described, but finding the answers to why it is this way. Why does this 8 guidelines lead to end of suffering, end of sickness, old age, greed, anger and so on,

it is no longer a belief system, it is wisdom from within,

[Jack River]

What is implied in cultivation? 

[Amanaki]

4 minutes ago, Jack River said:

What is implied in cultivation? 

7 minutes ago, Amanaki said:

 

Determination

[Jack River]

1 minute ago, Amanaki said:

Determination

What do we mean by determination? What is implied in that? 

fixation of will toward a goal, state of mental resolution with regard to something?

[Amanaki]

Determination to study the teaching, meditation daily, following the guidelines, when doing this the result will come of it own. no need to force it.

Technicly living the same way Buddha Shakyamuni did 2600 years ago when he got enlighten. Except for that i dont teach students in Buddhism 

Edited December 10, 2018 by Amanaki

[Jack River]

I see dude. Good luck ?

[Amanaki]

Just now, Jack River said:

I see dude. Good luck ?

Thank you