You fear tomorrow not realizing that yesterday is just as dangerous.
Its a given that most people want to experience happiness and joy.
There are many ways to achieve it and while some attain it, others dont.
Casper Nichols
However, it is no less a central desire to seek fulfillment in our everyday life.
We want happiness to fill the cup when pain overflows.
Yet the irony is we experience more pain and suffering than joy allows.
Casper Nichols
We attach our desires to people and situations, holding on tighter than we should.
We stress about matters that impose upon our happiness and become discouraged.
Things dont always go as planned.
People let us down.
The road ahead gets bumpy.
We fall into living as we are not and lose who and what we actually are.
The Art of Detachment
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
Meister Eckhart
Detachment means to disassociate yourself from intended outcomes.
It requires letting go of fixed ideas how life should be.
If you commit yourself to getting what you want, you set yourself up for pain.
You are trying to control your world instead of trusting the process of life.
Let Go of Attachments
You are only to perform your duty without an eye on their fruits.
Bhagavad GitaThis requires practice, though it is possible to let go of attachments that no longer serve you.
You might ruminate on the past and hold on to things that dont matter anymore.
What if you were to enjoy the richness of the present moment instead?
Make it a point to let go of anything thats not for your highest good, especially expectations.
Do you often worry about the future?
Do you base your feelings on whether you are moving forward in life?
Either way, make it a priority to let go of attachments by cherishing the depth of each moment.
Move beyond your negative thoughts and allow life to be exactly as it is.
Letting go is grounded in the wakefulness of the present moment being perfect as it is.
Whilst you expect things to be a certain way, detachment means to let go of these thoughts.
When we see through our attachments by fully experiencing them, the result is freedom.
When we see through our fears, the result is love, states Ezra Bayda.
Patanjali
Expectations set you up for disappointment.
Happiness means acknowledging this, so you avoid hanging your hopes on people fulfilling your emotional needs.
The solution, you ask?
What is sustained and sustaining is a yes to what is, taking the good with the bad.
This can only happen when we have no attachment to how things should be.
Let Go of Outcomes
To renounce things is not to give them up.
It is to acknowledge that all things go away.
Shunryu Suzuki
Do you want to work toward your goals and dreams while letting go of outcomes?
Focus on pursuing what is meaningful and give it your undivided attention.
People pursue what they consider will make them happy, yet remain miserable now.
Steady is the way.
The desires continue: They are part of the dance of nature.
But a renunciate no longer thinks that he is his desires.
Happiness and fulfillment emerge from within.
They loosened their grip and allowed life to serve them.
They are grateful for the pleasant and unpleasant moments because both experiences contain the seeds of opportunity for growth.
They are unattached to how life should develop and trust every experience serves their highest good.
Think back to a time you released your attachments to something.
Maybe it was resentment or holding on to a particular point of view.
As you let go, you no doubt felt relief and moved on.
That is the significance of letting go.
You let go to move forward, instead of dragging the past behind with you.
When you are unattached, you have inner freedom.
You have no investment in a particular outcome, and so you do what is necessary in the moment.
You explore every option and are receptive to all new information.
So, release your hold on tomorrow.
Do not blemish the present moment with your attachments of how it should be.
If you are anxious about a particular matter, simply let it go.
Drop it as though I were handing you a hot piece of coal.
Keep letting go until you get to a place of nothingness and have released all attachments and suffering.
Only then will you know true peace and joy in its entirety.
