Letting Go

Letting go does not necessarily mean to renounce from everything. It is about letting go of the attachment. It means enjoying things as long as they are around but being as happy as well once they are not. Thus, things can appear in a way we might not even have noticed before.

In order to liberate ourselves it is useful to practice letting go. How many things in our lives can we easily release? Many of our attachments are hidden within our sub-consciousness as the following example/exercise shows: Try to avoid looking at any watch for an entire day. Try to get up in the morning with no alarm clock and with no reference point for the time at all, except maybe the daylight. Observe what it does to you and how it makes you feel. Are you able to release time?

Let go or be dragged.
Zen Proverb

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Time doesn't exist. Time is just an agreed upon construct.
We have taken distance (one rotation of the earth,
and one orbit of the sun), divided it up into segments,
then given those segments labels.
While it has its uses, we have been programmed
to live our lives by this construct as if it were real.
We have confused our shared construct with something
that is tangible and thus have become its slave.