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November 2009 
The Process of Spirituality
Posted on Jan 16th, 2009
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Kevino
Kevino
The entire process of sprituality is of letting go. When Buddha sat under the tree he very likely used this. Something came up, he let it go. If he could not he inspected it till it released. Finally an idea came up he could not let go.
This idea of release is the boat one rides to the shore. The idea is also an acquisition! But the boat is necessary. Till it isn't. Methods of coming to understanding for oneself what release is and how to do it are plentiful. Some wlll "work" far better than others because most unfortunately have acquisition within them. Anything one MUST believe in in order to understand or operate a system of release is acquistion. Less is best. Help, though is useful. Most of us for technical reasons aren't quite ready to search completely on our own.
However, If you can find a tree, feel free to go for it.
This idea of release is the boat one rides to the shore. The idea is also an acquisition! But the boat is necessary. Till it isn't. Methods of coming to understanding for oneself what release is and how to do it are plentiful. Some wlll "work" far better than others because most unfortunately have acquisition within them. Anything one MUST believe in in order to understand or operate a system of release is acquistion. Less is best. Help, though is useful. Most of us for technical reasons aren't quite ready to search completely on our own.
However, If you can find a tree, feel free to go for it.
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Hi Kevino :
Insightfull post. I agree whole heartedly. Letting go is recognising attachment. I think as we grow, we acquire then let the things that helped go, recognising that everything is attachment and that everything is artificial.
In my mind, genuine isness is holding nothing, letting go of everything. being with whatever is at any given moment.
I like your boat metaphor - I feel that it captures what many of us are doing - unaware that in the end we can do it without the boat - cause there is no doing.
Keep the heart felt stuff coming !
Hi Bright,
Thank you for responding! The boat metaphor is not mine, FYI. It may be Swami Vivekananda’s, at any rate I read it somewhere sometime ago and it seems very apt as you noted above.
I would love to hear your continued thoughts on all things as well!