Looking at letting go

If I am hurt by someone repeatedly and I carry anger and resentment against them in my mind, am I doing that because I need to, to relate to them appropriately? Or for some other reason? Can I learn the lesson about them and relate to them appropriately without revisiting the memories of how they hurt me? And what is it to hold on to a thought or belief? Is it not to review, revisit, and reference that thought to provoke the attendant feeling and emotion? The feeling or emotion then motivates my actions. If I let go of the thought and belief structure, then I do not experience feeling and emotion. Consequently, my actions change. This points to the fact that emotions, as false presence, are not really in the moment, even though they are convincingly experienced as such.

Emotions are informed and driven by remembered beliefs, judgments and images from the past. These memories may be conscious or unconscious. The key understanding here, is that they are fragments of the past and that they displace conscious Presence of Being in the moment. Though emotions may be convincingly, experientially very real and present, and satisfyingly rich, compared to their mental image origins, they are nonetheless, stale and brittle partial truths about a time now past.

As surrogates for Presence for Being, with its living, intelligent, loving flow of Essential Qualities, emotions are tragically inferior. When we let go and release our hurts, resentments, hatreds and anger, we don't know what will take their place to motivate us, give us identity, give us substance in the world, protect us, earn us the right to belong and hold us. It is Presence of Being, with its perfect sufficiency of Essential Aspects that will hold us, protect us, inform us and move us each moment. Whether we let go the long, laborious and difficult way or do it effortlessly and instantly, the result is exactly the same. We become the vehicle of Pure Awareness expressed as a dance of Essential Qualities of Presence of Being emerging in harmony with every unfolding condition and situation. We don't need to understand it, or to make an effort, or to wait for something to make us ready. In letting go we discover that the time for our awakening is, and always has been, right now.