Letting go often sounds more like a concept than a practice. We identify so strongly with what we hang onto, may it be a person, a situation or an object that we often lose a sense of self when we let go. That said, we are helpless because we are so unconsciously driven that we might be totally oblivious to it. Counterintuitively, we do not need to release the grip and force ourselves to free fall. The antidote is to understand and see through the nature of things with a phenomenological approach.
As a basis, we need to understand the spiritual principal of the mirror effect whereby the external world is a projection of our own minds. "As Within, So Without" is precisely that. Contrary to what we believe in, we also have to accept that time and space are just mental constructs in this reality. This is the single contributing factor to our separateness, the delusion that there is a "me" and "you" and a "past" and "future". And precisely because of the mirror effect, there has to be an interface whereby there are others who can resonate with your thought pattern and collaborate with you to allow the division to occur. The only way to experience oneness is for us to challenge and discard this deluded thought so that we are no longer attracted to the experience of separation. Compassion has a very wide spectrum. But only until we break off the shackles of separation, we cannot transcend and ascend with love and kindness.
Letting go is the result of contemplation and seeing through, not the cause.
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