Let go. It's better. But HOW?

Punk Gwen: You're letting go of our clingy relationship? But what will you ever do without me?

Our life is easier when we let go and let the Universe take control

(Solace Fox) Ever notice that when we stop trying to control every detail, life actually becomes easier? Most people resist letting go, but surrendering to the Universe can unlock surprising peace, clarity, synchronicity, and effortless living.

In this video, discover the power of trusting the Universe, releasing control, and letting life naturally unfold [in accordance with the results of our past deeds, our karma]. Letting go isn't weakness — it's wisdom. Watch until the end to understand exactly how to allow the Universe to work for us.

🕒 TIMESTAMPS

• 0:00 - The secret of effortless living
• 2:14 - Why letting go is powerful (not passive)
• 4:35 - How resistance blocks our happiness
• 7:20 - Trusting the Universe (real-life examples)
• 10:10 - Signs the Universe is guiding us
• 12:45 - Breaking the [illusion of] control habit
• 15:30 - Our new way of living begins here
• 17:20 - Final thoughts and the next step

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Letting go is all well and good but HOW?

Mindfulness means dispassionate observation for clarity rather than involvement, bias, fear.

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It is good to let go, and we may all know it on some level. But how to do it, that is the question. The Buddha advocated the supreme importance of renunciation (nekkhamma), internal letting go. We do not all need to become monastics, hermits, or recluses, but we all need to unclutch, get a little distance and perspective, and stop being so clingy. Easier said than done. How to do?

Vipassana involves systematic mindfulness

There is a way: mindfulness. What is mindfulness? It is bare awareness, vigilance, watchfulness of what is really there, without evaluation, without embellishment, without distortion, without making stories or relating to what we are seeing.

Real mindfulness is only possible with calm and serenity, as happens as the natural result of the meditative absorptions. When we can pay that much mindful attention, things reveal themselves. They are nothing to cling to, nothing to be attached to. We can "let go" all we want with our brains/minds, but that will never do. The heart has to let go. When we see things as they really are, there is no need to make an effort to let go. The letting go happens naturally. "Clear seeing" is called vipassana in Buddhism, usually translated as "insight meditation" (satipatthana). It is a systematic practice of emerging from the absorption, temporarily purified, and attending to four things one after the other: body, feelings, mind, and mind-objects. They++ are all explained in the Maha Satipatthana Sutta or the "Fourfold Setting Up of Mindfulness Discourse."

1st step: mindfulness of body: in-and-out breathing

So letting go is possible, but it will never happen by itself. The mind/heart in its present condition distorts and perverts everything until things seem permanent, capable of fulfilling/satisfying us, and personal. When we see them for what they really are (impermanent, disappointing, and impersonal), the heart lets go as when a feather fall into a fire and curls bac. The Truth will set us free...if we ever bother to clean the lens of the mind to see things, even for a moment, as they truly are. Otherwise, we're just believing and disbelieving and never really making any progress.

• Discourse on in-and-out breathing: Ānāpānasati Sutta
• Solace Fox, March 9, 2025; Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly