Letting go.

Everything we experience happens within our mind. Anger, fear, frustration and all our negative mental states begin and end within us. No one gives them to us and no one can take them away. We do it to ourselves. As we begin to understand this, we can peacefully let them go. Not attempting to drive them away with an attitude of, ‘I shouldn’t feel like this,’ but to see them for what they really are, impersonal movements of mind, not ‘me,’ not ‘mine,’ not what ‘I am’.

They are like visitors to your house. Perhaps you don’t like them, but you can still be kind and polite. You don’t have to ask them to stay, but you don’t need to throw them out either. Eventually, and without any fuss, they will grow tired and leave by themselves. This is called ‘letting go’, and is the reality of liberation.

With awareness we see, with love we accept and with wisdom we respond. This is the whole of Dhamma.

May all beings be happy.