Giving Up

Giving up: 

there's some wisdom in giving up, more so, there's a deep joy discovered through the act of letting go of our personal involvement with certain aspects of life. Of course this is contrary to all we're ever told, from school age on we're urged to never give up and to keep striving forward in order to get ahead and create a life worth living. But I'm talking about a different surrender here, of giving up the thoughts that keep us bound within a paradigm of false identity...

of letting go of every belief that only serves the ego.

or at least to hold them lightly.

the truth is, or so it seems to me, it that it's all made up anyway, concepts that any life is better than another keep us trapped in the illusion of gain and loss. It certainly feels better to get ahead and to have a comfortable life. Yet striving for this alone is only a hollow feeling, devoid of any true meaning, filled with counting achievements and possessions. To give this up doesn't mean to lose anything, there's no need to get rid of anything or even to necessarily change the outer appearance of our daily lives. What we do...

is simply give up the idea that we're the doer of it all.

any of it.

and that we're not really in charge of how life unfolds. 

this is what the Tao urges - to give up our exclusive hold on the qualities we believe we are, and to live a life if inner simplicity, free of the concerns of the outer world. What we're asked to do is to give up concepts in order to life the actuality of life. 

and in that letting go...

we discover what we truly are.

free.

Peace, Eric 

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