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Letting Go October 30, 2009

Posted by Philip Ryan in : General , trackback

The spiritual journey, then, is a journey of detachment, a process of learning how to let go. All of our problems, miseries, and unhappiness are caused by fixation—latching onto things and not being able to release them. First we have to let go of fixation on material things. This does not necessarily mean jettisoning all our material possessions, but it implies that we should not look to material things for lasting happiness. Normally, our position in life, our family, our standing in the community, and so forth, are perceived to be the source of our happiness. This perspective has to be reversed, according to spiritual teachings, by relinquishing our fixation on material things.

- Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche, from “Letting Go of Spiritual Experience,” Tricycle, Fall 2004

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1. Constance Casey - October 30, 2009

I prefer to see it as non-attachment instead of detachment because we are inseparably interdependent. And, yes, it is a process of non-attachment and then a total immersion into the One.

2. anne - October 30, 2009

that is like the hardest thing to do ever. as soon as i think i’m no longer attached to soemthing another attachment sneaks in through the back door. Like being attached to the idea of not being attached to anything.

3. Barbara Cary - October 30, 2009

My goal is to simplify. Less is more.

4. sugar daddy - November 5, 2009

This is equivalent to the title of that immortal song- “Let it be”.