Comments on: Message to a Friend – Letting Go

By: takuin

takuin — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:46:59 +0000

tin,

That is a wonderful insight to have for yourself. And I appreciate that you say Takuin has helped you. But in the end, as you may well know, it is all in your hands.

This whole movement, if we can call it that, is something that may be appearing in several ways throughout your everyday life. If it is hard to let go of something that was an ‘insult’ to who you are, then this will not be an isolated event.

I encourage you to look even deeper, to find that source, the thing that makes the whole thing possible. I won’t tell you HOW to do it, but I will tell you it is there.

You can find it if you are interested. Teach yourself how and you’ll never need a guru.

Thank you, and feel free to comment on anything you may see here, no matter who has written it.

By: tin

tin — Sun, 10 May 2009 00:26:13 +0000

your insights helped me a lot in deciding what to do. i have not spoken to a friend for nearly four months now. i decided to let go. the more i plan to let go, the more things becomes complicated. Resistance is really futile.

By: takuin

takuin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:42:07 +0000

Thank you Kaushik. It is good to see you here.

By: Kaushik

Kaushik — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:18:12 +0000

Great reminder! The wanting to let go, and letting go are two different experiences. Letting go seems to happen only after complete acceptance, without the lurching for it to be any different. It’s a delicate lesson, and it took me quite some time. Often, when we learn a healing/release technique, it doesn’t seem to work. Once we completely accept what we are feeling, without the movement or expectation to change it, the technique is no longer a technique and it suddenly and naturally works.

“When you are curious, there is a great movement toward finding out; you are not so interested in a specific result as much as you are in finding out what is really there.” Beautiful!

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By: Alejandro Reyes

Alejandro Reyes — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:14:37 +0000

Many thanks for the quick response Takuin, I’m starting to understand my curiosity. I guess there si still a lot of things that I just thought they just were like that in a very automatic way.

I’m very happy that a lot of questions arise lately.

By: takuin

takuin — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:49:13 +0000

Alejandro,

…we think of curiosity as the force to find without searching? Or perhaps something more specific as searching without the need for the result that will satisfy our mind?

Perhaps more like your second question. I have used the word to mean an ‘eagerness to discover,’ but it is not a search for what is already known to you. In other words, it is not a search where you hope to find something close to what you already believe to be true.

One must be prepared for the possibility of complete and total destruction. What one might discover could end everything. And that is the beauty of this curiosity; it is out of this destruction that something new is born.

It is destroyed and reborn at every possible moment.

But in the “end” curiosity can and will lead us into the truth? Is this truth a way to the “peace of the mind” where it doesn’t need to label everything?

Ah, you are treading in slightly dangerous waters here. Is that why you want to be curious – to find your specific desire? Are you projecting what you hope awaits you there? If Alejandro is in a place where the mind needs to label everything, then that is the truth. That is the fact. You start with what you have there NOW, and not with what you hope to have later.

Sorry I may ask a lot of questions here, but I find that Takuin can bring a bit of light into a very interesting topic.

Oh please…you are welcome to say what you want and explore these things as you see fit. All of us, the regular commenters and the lurkers, are glad to have you here.

By: Davidya

Davidya — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:52:50 +0000

Very important and a lesson one often has to learn many times at ever more subtle values. It is such a habit…

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By: Alejandro Reyes

Alejandro Reyes — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:04:35 +0000

I’m trying to understand a bit here, we think of curiosity as the force to find without searching? Or perhaps something more specific as searching without the need for the result that will satisfy our mind?

It’s also very interesting to think of resistance as a way to point us out to the result that can only be found by our curiosity. But in the “end” curiosity can and will lead us into the truth? Is this truth a way to the “peace of the mind” where it doesn’t need to label everything?

Sorry I may ask a lot of questions here, but I find that Takuin can bring a bit of light into a very interesting topic.