Repression and Letting Go

[JohnsonCM]

I have always failed miserably at letting go. My brain is smarter than me, and it is only when things slip off it like shale that they are gone. Until then letting go has just been another kind of continuation. Things have to work through. A friend once said I could try "letting be" rather than "letting go". Can I sit with a difficult mind state as if it will never go away, and be whole and at peace with that?

Gassho
Daizan

Some days. Some days you will probably sit with a difficult mindset and know it won't go away no matter what. Those days I try to simply sit with it and remember that I'm not sitting for the mindset to go away, but to simply be. One day I will find that what bothered me isn't bothering me anymore, but I think it is because the part of me that was bothered may have had some small realization. The mindset is still there but my Mind is no longer set on being bothered by it.

[Oheso]

an interview with psychologist and Buddhist John Welwood which bears upon this topic, I believe:

http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/human-nature-buddha-nature-interview-with-john-welwood-2/

the biographical preamble, before the interview itself, may safely be skipped, IMHO.

gassho, -Robert

[RichardH]

The mindset is still there but my Mind is no longer set on being bothered by it.

Hi Heitetsu


The best I can describe it is that the whole present state of being is alone. Everything is alone at once, yet feet belong only to feet, feelings belong only to feelings, sounds belong only to sounds. Nothing is missing. Nothing has been subtracted. Everything is exactly the same, except that everything is alone. That aloneness transmutes the whole world, without changing it. There is no Dukkha.

Been pondering over this response.. seeing if it is possible to really express my experience.. which is probably a common experience.. and nothing really special. The description is junk in a way, posting it is junk, but it is the most precise I can do.


Gassho
Daizan

[Jundo]

Hi Heitetsu


The best I can describe it is that the whole present state of being is alone. Everything is alone at once, yet feet belong only to feet, feelings belong only to feelings, sounds belong only to sounds. Nothing is missing. Nothing has been subtracted. Everything is exactly the same, except that everything is alone. That aloneness transmutes the whole world, without changing it. There is no Dukkha.

Lovely to hear in the bones a fresh way to express the inexpressable.

At once everything-alone, missing subtracting nothing.
The whole world transmuted all-oneness, everything ever changed.
Sometimes feet, sounds, feelings hurt ... No Dukkha.

Lovely.

Gassho, J

[RichardH]

At once everything-alone, missing subtracting nothing.
The whole world transmuted all-oneness, everything ever changed.
Sometimes feet, sounds, feelings hurt ... No Dukkha. [/I]

Thank you , Jundo. ... time for the morning sit. The furnace roaring on another frosty dawn.

Gassho.
Daizan