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GliderGuider

(21,088 posts)
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 12:57 PM Apr 2016

Letting go of the world

It seems that after a decade of practice, I have now almost completely let go of the world, at least when it comes to finding value in its social forms, concepts, alarums and excursions.

My response to the accelerating, descending spiral of the human and natural world has been a turn from the collective to the personal: to my inner journey, my love for my wife and our dog, the relationships I have with a few close colleagues at work, and my quirky, fascinating Facebook sangha. What such a personal world lacks in breadth, it makes up for by being as deep as I care or dare to go.

I no longer want any part of what "the world" has become. Enough. I turn away.

But one cannot turn away from something without simultaneously turning toward something else.

What I am turning toward has been given lots of names. The Higher Self, love, the Divine, moksha, jnana, equanimity, compassion, the connection that is the quantum unit of the Sacred. Or something else, something felt rather than named. I try not to label it, I'm just trying to spend more time living here. With so little time left, it's a wise idea to live where one feels at home. If one wants to die at home, after all, one should be there when the Shades come to call.

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Letting go of the world (Original Post) GliderGuider Apr 2016 OP
The World and Your "Self" The River Mar 2017 #1
Check out Eckart Tolle, Mooji and others on Youtube. They are enlightened and can lead you to Maraya1969 Dec 2017 #2
I'm confused. LWolf Jan 2018 #3
turning toward Serafina2242 Aug 2018 #4

The River

(2,615 posts)
1. The World and Your "Self"
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:14 AM
Mar 2017

are one and the same.
You don't have to withdraw from the world to "get it".
The experience of "Enlightenment",
both sublime and life changing,
can happen at any time for any reason,
or no reason at all.

Maraya1969

(22,986 posts)
2. Check out Eckart Tolle, Mooji and others on Youtube. They are enlightened and can lead you to
Mon Dec 4, 2017, 10:18 AM
Dec 2017

find even more peace and happiness

LWolf

(46,179 posts)
3. I'm confused.
Mon Jan 1, 2018, 05:03 PM
Jan 2018

Not that your post is confusing; I'm just confused about my own place in "letting go."

I let go a long, long time ago. It wasn't hard. I never fit. That's the confusion. It hasn't been a process of enlightenment. It has been a process of acceptance, of giving up, of narrowing. I don't know that I'm in a better place for it; maybe the opposite, in fact.

Still, I continue to turn away from values that not only do not resonate with me, but that I truly can't understand on a logical, emotional, or spiritual level.

Serafina2242

(17 posts)
4. turning toward
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 06:47 AM
Aug 2018

that is my problem, as I turn away from things other thing present themselves that I care about. Advise?
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