In order to practice Dhamma by letting everything go, you have to see the truth by yourself and understand it by heart. Observe your mind with honesty. Do not try to empty your mind, make it peaceful or stay still. Only observe how it keeps changing. Observe until you see how it actually appears from nothingness, and finally disappears into nothingness. How that cycle keeps going on and on like a never-ending process. And that, in fact, there are only two things in the nature – one that can move or change and one that cannot.
But during the practice, most practitioners will also see one more thing apart from those two. You will notice how there is also one’s ‘self’ who keeps observing. There is this ‘self’ who keeps trying to understand and let everything go. Only when you look carefully that you’d realize that this ‘self’ is actually something that can move or change (Sankhara), and therefore is also a part of the nature.
Once you truly understand this, you can just ignore the whole thing. Don’t bother trying to observe, understand or even let go of anything anymore. Because you now know that everything, even the observer or the one who can ‘let go’, does not stay forever and will eventually fade away. So why bother holding on to something that will change?
The moment you are able to know that truth by heart, you are automatically ‘letting it go’. Because you now understand that there is nothing you can hold on to, not even the ultimate truth or the Nibbana itself. You now understand that there is only nature.
The nature that has only two things all along – one that moves and keeps changing or appearing in the emptiness, and one that cannot move and therefore will never change.
These two things are already there in the nature. They have always been there long before you were born. They do not belong to anyone. So, you cannot hold on to them. All you can do is let them be. Whatever it is, just let it be.
You can live your life, do your job, or do anything. It does not matter anymore for you already know deep down in your heart that everything including yourself is just a part of the nature. And that nothing is truly yours. You just know it, without having to ask anyone.
You just know, that one day this body and mind will eventually return to its nature. And there is nothing you can do about it. Because that is how it is, and it will always be.
Any moment you interfere – by holding on to the peacefulness, by trying to adjust your mind or even try to let anything go – you are suddenly an extra to the nature. Such extra will definitely change.
And anything that can change will cause you to suffer. So just accept the truth, know it by heart and let the nature does its work. That’s the true knowing, the real ‘letting go’. It’s the ultimate truth that will bring you to the end of all sufferings - Nibbana.
Luangta Narongsak Kheenalayo
Dhamma Teaching from Q&A Session with disciple
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