Power of
Letting Go!
Living with total let go policy is a great policy in
life. It requires lot of courage and understanding of the universal forces and
its perfection.
Let go means no competition, no struggle, no
fight… Just relaxing with existence, whatever it leads. And let go is such a
delightful experience, a total relaxation, a deep synchronicity with existence.
- Osho.
In life we all try to do something, sometimes things
go in right direction, sometimes things go against our intentions. When things
go against to your visions or intentions, you become crazy and aggressive and
try to put lot of effort to get the things in your way, in few cases more you
try, more it goes away.
Anytime you faced this situation where things or
people go against your intentions, step back and relax.
Indian
spirituality believes
in four principles:
1. Whatever happened had to happen that way.
2. Whoever you meet in your life, you are supposed to
meet and there is a purpose in meeting that person, not by accident or chance.
It’s all based on your past actions, they come either to teach something, learn
something, give something or receive something.
3. Whatever you plan in this life, there is a time
fixed for this, and it only happens at that time, neither before nor later.
4. What is done is done, don't hold on to it, no
regrets and no resentments.
[Ref video: Four
Principles of Indian Spirituality | Ishwar Puri. ]
There is a Toe
Teachings WU WEI principle from LAO TZU. WU WEI can be translated as effortless
action or non-action:
1. One who seeks knowledge learns something new every
day. One who seeks the Tao unlearns something new every day. Less and less
remains until you arrive at non-action.
2. When you arrive at non-action, nothing will be
left undone. Mastery of the world is achieved by letting things take their
natural course. You can’t master the world by changing the natural way. [Tao Te
Ching. 48 (translated by J.H. McDonald)]
3. If you put WU WEI into practice, you discover that
problems often solved themselves. In many cases they don't need your
intervention, more over by intervening you often make things worse. Everything
lies in the hands of the universe, which is completely out of control. By
letting go we create space for the universe to do its things.
4. Who can be still until their mud settles and the
water is cleared by itself? Can you remain tranquil until right action occurs
by itself?
5. The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. For only
those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of
completeness. [Tao Te Ching, 15 (translated by J.H. McDonald).]
6. The best leaders are those the people hardly know
exist. The next best is a leader who is loved and praised. Next comes the one
who is feared. The worst one is the leader that is despised. [TaoTe Ching, 17
(translated byJ.H. McDonald).]
[Ref Video: The
Taoist Way of Letting Go]
It takes lot more
courage to let something go than it does to hang on to it, trying to make it
better. Letting go doesn't mean ignoring a situation. Letting go means
accepting what is, exactly as it is, without fear, resistance, or a struggle
for control.
- Iynla Vanzant
Many times living like a river is a better way of
living. River always flows with the gravitational force and touches and greets
whatever and whoever comes in its way, neither looks back nor forces against
something, just moves on, till it reaches the ocean. Similarly you should learn
to live life with the flow of universe, if you try to swim against the force of
gravity? You find more difficulties and struggle. Living with flow is a
blissful living.
In my life I applied above principles and found great
results of joy. Living with letting go does not mean living lazy. Do your
action with full heart and dedication, if things go different, just wait and
watch, maybe it's not a right time or situation, or universe might be doing,
preparing, bringing something different for you.
Life is more beautiful, if you allow that to happen.
Flowers which blossom by itself is more beautiful when compared with the flower
you artificially unfold or make them to blossom.
Remember, either you let go and swim with the flow?
Or you fight back and swim against the flow? One day all must reach the ocean.
All your struggles and fights may look funny when you realize the fact that; you
too need to join the ocean. If you are aggressively trying a lot to swim
against the flow, you may be evaporated in-between in your journey and you
start a new journey again. Either by using same or different path you must reach
the ocean. This repetition of ones journey is called as reincarnation in Indian
Spirituality.
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