A meditation on Letting Go
(from: Stephen Levine)
Let your attention come to the breath. Not the thought of the breath,
but the direct sensation of the breath, as it comes and goes by
itself. Let the awareness come right to the edge of sensation as
the breath enters and leaves the nostrils. Let the awareness be
soft and open, making contact with each breath without the least
interference. Experience the natural tides of the breath, as it
comes and goes. Don't attempt to control or change it. Just observe
it.
Let the breath breathe itself. Without comment. Without any attempt
to control it in any way. Allow the breath to be as it is. If it
is slow, let it be slow. If it is deep, let it be deep. If it is
shallow, let it be shallow. Let the breath be completely natural
and free. In no way held by the mind. Sensation arising, instant
to instant, in the vast spaciousness of awareness. If you notice
the mind attempting to shape the breath, to control it in even the
least way, just watch that tendency and let the breath float free.
No holding. No control.
Completely let go of control of the breath. Let the body breathe
by itself.
Don't interfere with the subtle flow.
Just awareness. Vast as the sky. Spacious.
The sensations of the breath, arising and passing away within this
openness. Nothing to hold to. Nothing to do. Nowhere to go. Just
the breath as it is. Each breath unique. Sensations changing, moment
to moment.
Notice how thoughts arise. Commenting, remembering, thinking. Each
thought a bubble passing through the vast spaciousness of mind.
Existing for an instant. Dissolving back into the flow. No need
for control. Just the vast open flow of change. Just process unfolding,
moment to moment.
Thoughts think themselves. Nothing to condemn. Nothing to judge.
Nothing to add. Let go of control in even the least way. Just let
things be as they are, approaching and receding within the vastness
of being.
Let go of the body. Let sensation float in vast space. Let go of
the mind. Thoughts. Feeling. Arising and melting away. Instant to
instant. Let them come. Let them go.
No one to be. Nothing to do. Nowhere to go. Just now. Just this
much.
Be silent and know.
Once and for all, completely relinquish control. Let go of fear
and doubt. Let each thing float in its own nature. Dissolve into
the vast spaciousness of awareness. No body. No mind. Just thought.
Just feelings. Just sensations. Bubbles. Floating in vast space.
An instant of thought. Of hearing. Of remembering. Of fearing.
Like waves, rising for an instant and dissolving back into the ocean
of being. Into the vastness of your true nature.
No one to be. Nothing to do.
Let each instant unfold as it will.
No resistance anywhere.
Let the wind blow right through you.
No one to be--just this much. This instant is enough.
Nowhere to go--just now. Just here.
Nothing to do--just be.
Holding nowhere, we are everywhere at once.
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Texts on this subject:
The Law of Non-resistance.
Chapter from The Game of Life, by Florence Scovel Shinn.
A meditation
on Letting Go. (from: Stephen Levine)
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