How to Let Go?

We should not make a philosophy out of this phrase of letting go, as such thing is neither possible nor beneficial. We can only understand it. And to understand it we need a different orientation. We cannot understand it through logical and rational mind. We need to approach it through a different way. For canvenience sake we can name it as intuitive sense. This sense does not function on the basis of thoughts and memories. It can silently observe our thoughts and memories. This sense informs us that thoughts and memories are not existential. They come and go. There is no need to define oneself out of them. They are not real to us. If they persist too much or demand for our attention and energies unnecessarily, then it is good to say good bye to them. It is good to let go of them. The insight to let go originates from within us. It is the quality of our inner state. Outwardly one may look angry but inwardly one need not to be. Situations around us might need us to be angry but we are no more angry within as to be angry does not make any sense in absolute terms. There is no question of being angry or not angry but our social situation does not fuction so. Hence the emphasis of letting go. It does not mean that one forgets about what happened in the past or one does not plan about the future. Past memories are there but one is not attached to them. They are there without any personal flavor. Someone insulted me and the memory of that insult is there but one does not feel insulted. Letting go helps us understand that there is no need to be insulted as there is no one as a person who can be insulted. But our social situation has given us identities, names and we play the role of being different persons. Personally one may require to be angry. But there is no such thing as far as our true inner being is concerned. No word, memory or impression can touch it. It is beyond all these. But when we forget our inner being and clouds of thoughts and memories hide it then the insight of letting should be followed. Just let them go and see what remains. Our true being does not get moved by them. It is always there, serence, calm and peaceful. Philosophoical systems and doctrines may be necessary as far as our survival and social existence are concerned but at existential level they do not make any sense at all. Any thing no matter how sublime or transcendental it might look, but in the realm of our true being it does not make any meaning at all. Letting go is not mere a technique to practice. In its absolute sense it means that one is willing to face death. We are not just physical bodies. There are mental and emotional bodies too. Letting go means that one is willing to let go them all. But again it is inner approach. It does not mean that one wants to destroy or kill one’s body. Destroying just physical body does not make much help. Physical body can only create pain. It does not create suffering and anxiety. These come from our mental and emotional bodies. To let go means that one is willing to let go of these bodies. But how one gets ready to do so? Somehow we come to realize that there is something that does not come to an end after the end of these bodies. There is something which still stays. To let go means to be in a state of deep trust. To let go in ultimate sense means a leap of faith. Who we are? We are thougths and emotions. We are not separate from them. We are made out of them. Will it be easy to let go of our own selves. Of course not. Of course one needs to have some glimpse or some taste of that thing which is not of these. Which is beyond thoughts and emotions. Where time does not reside. Something beautiful, serene and free for which one gets ready to die even. Unless it is not there, one of course will not be able to understand what does it mean to let go. Our memories and thoughts are not going any where. If we suppress or ignore them they will then reside in our unconscious. They will remain within our system. The actual issue is the issue of identity. It is our identity with our thoughts and emotions which is erroneous and problematic. We do not get satisfied and fulfilled by them. They are contradictory, fleeting and unreliable. They do not define us in our true being. We hav to let go of our false identities. To let go means to turn round and see what is true and existential. It is to go back to one’s true nature and to leave behind the false identity.