Dealing with Reality

Many people have the perception that letting go is very difficult to do.

as if letting go is like…

Tossing away a very valuable golden cup.

Cutting away the string of a kite.

Forgetting something meaningful totally, blanking it out of the mind.

Actually letting go can be like…

Loosing the clenching fist gently.

Lie down comfortably and close the eyes gently.

Not attaching to important memory, just gently see through it and then focus on the now.

Make letting go a comfortable practice in your daily life
and you will see how smooth it flows.

You are such a terrible person.
You are the best worker in the world.
This is right, you are wrong
Love is wonderful.
Democracy brings prosperity.
Perfect and Imperfect.

All these are labels.

They are just names given to things and states.
We encounter so many labels in life.

People who are ignorant are easily being manipulated by labels.
They are attached to these labels.
Many people get hurt just because someone “paste” negative labels on them
and many people have false pride when “nice” labels are given to them.
Even the meaning of love is distorted as “love” has become a label that is directed to many meanings, including lust. Nowadays it is better to say “compassion” than “love” to people as “compassion” can be understood more accurately.

Label is just an illusion that points at the truth,
it is not the truth itself
and labels can be manipulated to point at the fake “truth”

Choose to let go the attachment towards labels in life
and you will realise the nature of reality
and you will be strong.

Religion is just belief system.
If you take the teachings literally
you will be limited by it.

Personally when come to religion,
I go for realisation of the teachings instead of intellectual analising and debating.
Realising is about observing and knowing
not talking and debating
as talking and debating only make you run in circles and realise nothing at all
it makes simple things complicated.

I am born as a Buddhist
but I do not attach myself strictly to Buddhism
nor I label and affirm myself to be in any belief system.

I take my religion as a guide to my realisation and self discovery
and I do not limit myself to its teachings.

Even in Buddhism
Buddhists are taught to let go labels and attachment.
There is a Buddhist teaching saying that when you reach the stage of realisation and enlightenment,
you let go all teachings and labels and live freely.
That is the essence of Buddhism.

Realisation, choosing consciously and letting go are my ways of life.