Letting Go (Part 1)
This is the biggest break I had from the blog since I started writing it at the beginning of this year.
I’ve been having a homework assignment from my spiritual teacher for the last couple of weeks to let go of everything I am attached to. One of my biggest attachments this year has been this blog. I had to let it go. Now I feel that I can let go of letting it go while realizing how much I neglected to let go in the past.
Before I left Germany I read a book that was called “The LOL2A Principle”. The author claimed that he had discovered the secret of the universe.
He came up with this formula: LOL2A=Reaction
LO = Loslassen (letting go)
L2 = Liebe2 (love2)
A = Aktion (action)
= Reaction
It means that love is the strongest force in the universe. Karma is action. To chance or to get what we want we have to move, we have to work towards it. But the step I forgot over and over again is letting go. To get what we want we cannot cling to it. By holding onto what we desire we will never get it.
While I was thinking about non-attachment I opened Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj’s book “I AM THAT” randomly and found the following:
Attachment destroys courage. The giver is always ready to give. The taker is absent. Freedom means letting go. People just do not care to let go of everything. They do not know that the finite is the price of the infinite, as death is the price of immortality. Spiritual maturity lies in the readiness to let go everything. The giving up is the first step. But the real giving up is in realizing that there is nothing to give up, for nothing is your own. It is like deep sleep – you do not give up your bed when you fall asleep – you just forget it.
(“I AM THAT” Page 363/364)
Two days later I went to the Chinese takeout restaurant around the corner to get fried tofu. Every time I have this dish it makes me sick but I keep on coming back. I have a hard time to let go of it. I believe strongly in fortune cookies. Somehow I always seam to have one that addresses what I am dealing with at the moment. The one I got this time it was not different:
“You must let go of something before you can capture it for good”.
"Letting Go (Part 1)" Williamsburg/Brooklyn/"Fortune" out of Fortune Cookie 10-07-08 at 09:10 PM
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