This is why you can't let go

[Someone here]

 

So this whole idea of letting it go seems like an illusion.  You can only let go of what is already gone , so in a sense there is nothing to let go of . So it's more of acceptance. Accepting that you have no control and cannot hold on or let go . They seem like opposites of the same pole. Even acceptance looks illusory because there is nothing to accept there is just Truth. You cannot add or subtract from truth ,TRUTH IS before we spin any stories about it . 

It's like Desire.  Fulfilling desires always takes place in the future so it does not allow you to be (happy) now.  So if you want to be happy , you are unable to be happy because happiness must come later , in the future after you get or accomplish what you want. And if you are unhappy you desire to stop this unhappiness . Desire is pretty much wanting  and as always our wants are not here now so we are suffering until we get our wants/desires. Wanting and not wanting are really two sides of the same coin . So you could want  someone in your life and you can also want to NOT want a person in your life. The key to this is not to desire. But then immediately you will see that you desire not to desire  lollers! 

think I now understand the importance of knowing why we the egoes "must" be destroyed....

The buddha keeps calling us a fool. Now I understand why we are fools. We believe suffering will never come to us. So we cling to our objects thinking it will give us pleasure long. It does.... We feel pleasure.... Just like kids playing with our toys.... It's very pleasurable....... No hardship.... Until we go to school.... We begin to have problems. But pleasure never lasts, it never does. It Will never ever last long. Even the earth and the universe. but to cling to our bodies.... Is surely foolish. That's why the Buddha emphasizes the importance of losing our body, the world. It is we that cling to the world and the body. It is us, it is not the problem of the universe. We keep blaming the universe, body, our lack of money.... Etc.... But yet we never look at our selves to see that it is use that clings to these things. We are clinging to them... And that we are blaming that which is lost. We intuitively know everything will be lost.... But we still cling to them. 

Good example.... A disciplined person. Eating healthy, good to people. Loving, work hard, great relationships, great heart, ... He goes to the doctor because of a sore stomach. The doctor says he has cancer. He says "me? Why me? I work hard, I'm kind, good to people, I have a great heart, I excercise and eat healthy. Why me?" 

That person is still foolish. It clearly shows that he always believed that his body will never break down if he eats healthy... When actually the it is a natural process of the law of the universe to things to be born and die. So even though he had done healthy things.... And was "kind" to people.  He is still foolish to have believed that even his cared body will now betray his belief. But I'm not criticizing his care for health.... But all I'm criticizing is his belief that he will never suffer for clinging to the body.

whats wrong with clinging to the earth? Well even the earth will be destroyed. Even the whole galaxy.... And nothing will be left. Which is nothingness we are going for. 

Edited November 20, 2021 by Someone here

[Nahm]

‘The hook brings you back ’.  JP

[mandyjw]

3 hours ago, Nahm said:

‘The hook brings you back ’.  JP

The "J" though. 

[Nahm]

@mandyjw

Nice.