Why Are We Advised To Let Go?

This is a bit of a conundrum, because of all the palaver attached to spiritual understanding.

Our problems are caused because we are holding on to ideas, especially ‘spiritual’ ideas. This is why being aware of any elaborations concerning our ordinary reality of pure consciousness is really important.

In the still silence of meditation, there is nothing going on, and nothing to follow. No Dharma, no Buddha, no teaching, no ideas. The whole point is acknowledging thoughts, but not following them.

Now comes the great disappointment …
we may have been expecting wondrous, glorious, divine splendour!
But all this is, is the emptiness of clarity.

“That’s boring!”

The significance is that once we realise this natural clarity – and it’s just seeing without comment or expectation – we realise the false world we have been living in. The illusion of reality, with all its distractions of busyness, excitement and entertainment, enmeshes us in attachments and clouds the subtleties and insights of actual reality.

We start to lead a contemplative life instead of a ‘interesting’ life. We value inner peace and sanity.

We still have the daily things to do, but we become more mindful and less distracted, and know when to bring an activity to completion by dropping it.

This non-attachment to events gradually eliminates our old habits and our karma, clearing the path to enlightenment.