Allow Things to Pass

All life is a passing show.  If we want to hold it, even for a minute, we feel tension...When we want to keep it, we put up barriers which ultimately cause us pain...If only we learn to enjoy each change, we can recognize the beauty even in aging....when we just allow things to pass, we are free.  Things will just come and go while we retain our peace.
Sri Swami Satchidananda


Imagine the peace that comes with the ability to just allow things to come and go into our lives, to pass by without any need for us to block the passage or to cling.

Imagine looking at change with nothing but a smile of awe on our faces.

 Imagine sitting back and enjoying the show that is played out in front of us and through us instead of getting lost in the need to rewrite or fix the script. 

How much energy we waste trying to hang on to the things that are not ours to hang onto; to control and fix the things that do not need fixing. 

Our resistance is fatiguing and crazy making.  Life is going to happen with or without our approval; with or without our direction.  Isn't it time we just let it?

Learning to let go isn't easy for us who were blessed with so much to let go of??

Isn't it ironic that those of who were randomly placed in geographical and economic situations of blessing are the one that feel they need  "more"...more control, more things, more whatever to make them happy...than those who seem to have less?

The 2017 Happiness report shows that the rate of happiness in the U.S.A. , one of the richest countries in the world, is steadily decreasing. http://worldhappiness.report/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/HR17.pdf. 

Other studies are showing  countries who are not so economically well off, like Indonesia (https://www.pressreader.com/indonesia/the-jakarta-post/20170711/281767039260377),  are some of the happiest countries in the world.  Why is that?

There are all kinds of critiques about the studies done over the years  but I believe the key point to be made is that money and material things do not bring happiness. 

What does?

The more in tune we are to our true Self as individuals...the happier the population will be. How do we get there?  Through spiritual practice.

Indonesia is a very spiritually centered country. (http://www.fostertravel.com/bali-indonesia-the-spice-trade-of-the-spirit/)  

The deeper the spirituality, the easier it is to detach from the things of the material world. Maybe the less you have...the easier it is too because there is less to feed the ego.  I don't know.

The point is...in finding our true Self we will find that stable ground on which to plant our feet and it won't matter what country we are in or where it is ranked in any happiness study. 

We will be able to watch the world pass by and enjoy it from a place of peace.

 Letting go of our emotional attachment to the things of the world that do not matter will make it easier to embrace the things that do.

All is well in my world.