joy and happiness arise from letting go...

"... joy and happiness arise from letting go. 
Please sit down and take an inventory of your life. 
There are things you’ve been hanging on to
 that really are not useful and deprive you of your freedom. 
Find the courage to let them go."

~ Thich Nhat Hanh, in Peace Is Every Breath

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Zafu Meditation Cushion/Floor Pillow/Dorm Pillow in Purple, with Medallions.

 Unfilled cover. 15" x5" with a 6" sidewall zipper closure. Handmade, USA

let go...

~Tilopa

"Don’t recall.
Don’t imagine.
Don’t think.
Don’t examine.
Don’t control.
Rest."

This advice consists of only six words in Tibetan. 

The above translation was developed 

to capture its brevity and directness. 

Some years ago, Michael K. Nisch 

developed the translation shown below, 

which some people prefer:

 

"Let go of what has passed.
Let go of what may come.
Let go of what is happening now.
Don’t try to figure anything out.
Don’t try to make anything happen.
Relax, right now, and rest."

Michael K. Nisch

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Fine Art Print with Hermann Hesse Quote

 available on etsy by ChezLorraines

real freedom - what is it or what is it not?

Letting Go 

(by The Founders)

“Staking your claim to something in your reality puts you in touch with that object or space. It gives you a way of relating to it. But relating to it in terms of your possession of it is not the ideal way for you to interact with the object, the place, or even the other person you are staking your claim to.

It is in your best interest to see everything as free, to see everything as available to all others as well, and to give yourselves an opportunity to interact without claiming anything or anyone as yours. It is also an acknowledgement that your relationship to the object, place, or person is always changing.

So you will feel less attached. You will feel less tied down and more free. Recognize that your relationships to objects, places, and people are there to spark within you more of who you are. They were never meant to be a substitute for that which is you.

photography by Hengki Koentjoro - facebook

  But you make them more significant than they need to be by clinging to them, labeling them, and seeing them as belonging to you. Every moment of every day, your relationship to everything changes. And it would serve you well to acknowledge that, to acknowledge that you can never hold on to something or someone past the point of where it serves you.

You must let go. You must be willing to accept that whatever it is, whoever it is, and whatever is represented, there is no ownership. There is no holding forever. And even if you could, what you would be holding on to would change before your eyes. You would not have the same experience of whatever you were holding on to.

So allow yourselves the opportunity to evolve with the people, places and things around you by letting go and by changing with them.

(We are The Founders)

Channeled by Daniel Scranton
http://danielscranton.com/

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