Bodhicitta777 on Nostr: On letting go, something you can't do. It happens without your effort. let everything ...
On letting go, something you can't do. It happens without your effort.
let everything be
To enter the natural state, one must release the need to control, to strive, or to achieve. It is about surrendering the illusion of effort and settling into a state of clear, open awareness. This state is not something complicated or distant; in fact, it is profoundly simple. It requires no complex practice, no grasping, no pushing, no struggle.
Just sit, and allow everything to be exactly as it is. Do not resist, do not chase, do not change. The mind, so accustomed to striving and seeking, believes that something must be done to reach peace. Yet the paradox is that peace is already here; it is the natural state that exists when we stop interfering with the present moment.
In this letting go, there is a vividness—a clear seeing that arises not from effort but from the cessation of effort. The mind, left to its own devices, constantly searches, judges, and controls, mistaking this activity for wisdom. But true clarity, true understanding, comes when we cease to try to understand and simply are.
This is the essence of the practice: to sit and allow, to let go of the habitual grasping for control, and to recognize that everything is already as it needs to be. In this way, we return to the simplicity and openness of our natural state, where the true nature of reality—free from the distortions of desire and aversion—can be seen with clarity.
So, sit down, let everything be, and discover that the very simplicity you seek is already present, quietly waiting beneath the noise of your striving.
let everything be
To enter the natural state, one must release the need to control, to strive, or to achieve. It is about surrendering the illusion of effort and settling into a state of clear, open awareness. This state is not something complicated or distant; in fact, it is profoundly simple. It requires no complex practice, no grasping, no pushing, no struggle.
Just sit, and allow everything to be exactly as it is. Do not resist, do not chase, do not change. The mind, so accustomed to striving and seeking, believes that something must be done to reach peace. Yet the paradox is that peace is already here; it is the natural state that exists when we stop interfering with the present moment.
In this letting go, there is a vividness—a clear seeing that arises not from effort but from the cessation of effort. The mind, left to its own devices, constantly searches, judges, and controls, mistaking this activity for wisdom. But true clarity, true understanding, comes when we cease to try to understand and simply are.
This is the essence of the practice: to sit and allow, to let go of the habitual grasping for control, and to recognize that everything is already as it needs to be. In this way, we return to the simplicity and openness of our natural state, where the true nature of reality—free from the distortions of desire and aversion—can be seen with clarity.
So, sit down, let everything be, and discover that the very simplicity you seek is already present, quietly waiting beneath the noise of your striving.