Letting go: what that actually means?

[Annoynymous]

Leo has talked a lot about letting go in the past, even he has got a video on this topic.

But what actually letting go means?

If i think about letting go, i think that it means to let everything to go. Not only anger, depression, frustration, past wounds etc which we consider as negative feelings/incidents,  but also positive feelings/incidents like happiness,joy, intimacy etc.

My question is, if i am able to let go EVERYTHING, what actually remains?

I find letting go too hard. I find myself carrying past wounds, traumas, addiction to smoke and my other habits. so how to let go? Is it something like you just say "let go" and everything within a moment just vanishes?

Or is letting go a process of deliberate practice?

Edited November 4, 2019 by Annoynymous

[ivankiss]

Another way to look at it;

You are not the one who's letting go. You are the one being let go of.

[Annoynymous]

@ivankiss yes!

That is both the irony and beauty of it

[ivankiss]

3 hours ago, Annoynymous said:

My question is, if i am able to let go EVERYTHING, what actually remains?

Pure, endless, infinite, white.

Light.

 

3 hours ago, Annoynymous said:

 

 

I find letting go too hard. I find myself carrying past wounds, traumas, addiction to smoke and my other habits. so how to let go? Is it something like you just say "let go" and everything within a moment just vanishes?

 

Feel you brother.

First you must become aware of the resistance you're creating by "trying to let go". Can you see the paradox? There's nothing you need to let go. Accept life as it is. Love it no matter how it looks. Focus on what feels good. 

Let it all be. And it will surely let you go, when its time runs out.

You will know. 

[Annoynymous]

@ivankiss i hear you

[WelcometoReality]

26 minutes ago, ivankiss said:

Pure, endless, infinite, white.

Light.

 

Feel you brother.

First you must become aware of the resistance you're creating by "trying to let go". Can you see the paradox? There's nothing you need to let go. Accept life as it is. Love it no matter how it looks. Focus on what feels good. 

Let it all be. And it will surely let you go, when its time runs out.

You will know. 

<3

[allislove]

@ivankiss beautifully put as usual 

tl:dr; whatever arises, let it be. 

 

PS: I think Leo just confused us with his 'Letting go' video. 

PSS: or the topic is really sneaky. 

Edited November 4, 2019 by dimitri

[VeganAwake]

Its a letting go of the entire egoic self agenda. Dropping the constant seeking and searching to find completion outside of yourself. Dropping the attachments to earthly material possessions(middle path) and letting go of the past...it is dead energy. Forgive everyone and everything. Plug up all the holes in your life that are draining your energy. Start peeling off/dropping the onion layers of the false self, untangling and unplugging from social conditioning and snap out of the Matrix of your own mind.

Awakening is a falling away.

Not an attaining!!

Nobody can enter the gateless gate so be nobody...

[arlin]

I think letting go can be summed up in 2 words.

Disidentify and be present.

[silene]

Loving all this thread .  Letting go = let it be. Simply observe without trying to change anything. I think of it like using the here and now as my mantra, stopping feeding energy into abstract thoughts and intentions. I'm aiming at a passive awareness rather than active awareness. 

[Annoynymous]

@silene it is not an easy task to do,  to just let it be.

Mind feels very threatened by the idea of loosing something which it is attached to. 

[Leo Gura]

@Annoynymous Stop intellectualizing this.

Take a conceptual thing and let it go in your direct experience. That is letting go.

For example, let go of the idea that the Earth is round. Do it right now. That's it! That's letting go.

Your ideas of letting go are not letting go.

Try letting of the idea that the Earth is round until you no longer have any attachment to it. To the point where it no longer bothers you. To the point where it's just a non-issue.

[Annoynymous]

@Leo Gura Well sometimes i just can not stop over - intellectualizing

Its like my mind constantly running by its own.

[Leo Gura]

6 minutes ago, Annoynymous said:

@Leo Gura Well sometimes i just can not stop over - intellectualizing

Its like my mind constantly running by its own.

That is the whole problem in a nutshell.

You can still practice dropping stuff. Including dropping intellectualization.

Letting go must be practiced 1000s of times. It's nowhere near enough to let go a few dozen times. This must be a daily practice for years.

See Sedona Method. It's worth doing.

[Annoynymous]

@Leo Gura allright. Thanks for your advice