Tag: letting go
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Emotional Freedom: Zen and the Art of Letting Go
What would it be like to experience true emotional freedom? What steps should we take to begin to realize emotional freedom? For some of us, even on our best days, the weight of an underlying distress or despair seems to persistently loom beneath all of our other mental and emotional experiences. As a result, the…
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Undetectable Distress: The Seeds of Despair and The Subsequent Need to Let Go
Today we will continue our exploration into the topic of letting go. In order to do so, let’s take a moment to step back and get a bigger picture. Why is it that we have this need to let go in the first place? What are the causes of the despair and attachments that we…
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Emotional State: Mood Versus Emotion
We continue our discussion regarding the topic of letting go by further exploring the many layered elements of our emotional experiences. Today we will look at our emotional state. For our purposes, the emotional state is the less defined, underlying general mood, as opposed to the relatively more defined specific emotions, such as happiness or…
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Emotions: Instinctive Body and Intellectual Mind At Play
Our overall conversation regarding letting go takes an additional step forward as we investigate the next element of our emotional activity. We have already seen that there is an underlying distress which raises an existential question concerning the legitimacy of the egoic self. The ego then takes efforts to legitimize and justify itself. These efforts,…
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Imaginative and Emotive Activity
In our last lesson regarding the birth of emotion, I suggested that our various emotions arise as a result of a disconnect between the intellect and the animal instinct. I went on to say that this inner duality of mind and body not only gives rise to emotions, it actually serves to amplify the intensity…
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Authentic/Inauthentic Emotions: Exploring Our True Feelings
Today we expound upon what we learned regarding imaginative and emotive activity by examining our authentic and inauthentic emotions. In simple terms, mental activity such as overthinking and worrying gives rise to inauthentic emotions. This type of emotional activity serves to distract us. It is enwrapped in illusion and prohibits us from doing important inner…
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Practice of Letting Go: Looking Within
Over the past couple of weeks we have discussed the nature of our emotional activity. Today we will take much of what we have learned and incorporate it into a practice of letting go. A few lessons ago we considered the arising of our emotional state or underlying mood. We then saw how our imaginative/emotive…
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A Universal Act of Letting Go: Easing Inner Struggle
In the last lesson we discussed the idea of a universal act of letting go. Hopefully over the course of the past few days you have had an opportunity to experiment with this practice. Let’s take a moment to explore this practice in more detail. Why does it work in the way that it does?…
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Letting Go of Illusion: An Invitation to the Present Moment
Every once in a while I experience a dream in which something bleak happens. It might involve personal tragedy or loss. It might simply involve something I’d prefer not to have to bother with. Generally, at some point, I become conscious of the fact that I am still asleep. Oh, I say to myself, I…
