Beck-Happy Suffering!

[Guest guest]

Hi Beck,

 

Instead of trying to let things go, how about letting go the

attachment to things instead? Keep simplifying and sort of let the

nonessentials 'drift away' as they will, without interfering.

 

i find that nonessential things 'want to go' by themselves, it's our

clinging that keeps them around. If one doesn't interfere, things

gradually 'drift' and settle... it's very much an effortless thing if

you just observe the attachment very closely and ask 'do i really

need this? do i really want this?'

 

That's how i quit smoking last november. There was no plan to quit,

but an honest question arose that i didn't dodge or put off: 'is this

necessary? what am i getting out of this? why am i doing this?'

Examining it very closely, the urge to smoke dropped off. It was

effortless.

 

Surrender is almost a sort of art form, but without an artist... it

shapes and perfects itself when we stop interfering with the

spontaneous, natural flow of existence. Rather than dropping

things, " things drop. "

 

Namaste,

 

Tim

 

Nisargadatta, Beck <beck@b...> wrote:

> What I find for myself is I am fed up in some areas, not in others.

> It is frustrating to try and let go of things I am still enjoying -

> the pleasure and the suffering.

>

> I wonder what would happen if we took this email list away? How

many

> unhappy people would there be? :-)

>

> Beck

[Guest guest]

Good, Tim, thanks.

Beck

 

At 05:07 PM 6/18/01 , you wrote:

>just observe the attachment very closely and ask 'do i really

>need this? do i really want this?'

 

What if the answer is " Yes? " Just kidding.

[Guest guest]

Omkara wrote:

>

>

> Surrender is almost a sort of art form, but without an artist... it

> shapes and perfects itself when we stop interfering with the

> spontaneous, natural flow of existence. Rather than dropping

> things, " things drop. "

>

*****

Exactly. The old drops away of its own and the new takes its place.

 

Judi