To Act and Let go

By B Duche

Yes, I know, pretty much everything has been written on the topic.

The concept of “Let go” has become a very fashionable cliché, with its own role plays, coaches and broadcasts.

When should I let go? In which situation?
To begin with, I can improve two powers that we all have in ourselves, at different levels:
Discernment and Detachment. They go well together.
The more detached I am, the more I am in my inner space, my space of silence, the sharper my discerning skills.

To meditate is not simply to be seated in the lotus position while listening to monotonous (and often boring) music, reciting some exotic mantra in a subdued light.

You can meditate in the subway, in front of your computer, while riding your bike or preparing dinner.

If I look at a literal meaning of the law of karma, then everything is already written.
Thus, why bother? Why should I act? Just let go!

But the law of karma is not a fatality.
And ''Let go'' doesn't mean ''forget it''.

The meaning of life is to show me situations which will help me become clearer about myself when I look at them with a little spiritual discernment.

I see. I accept. I understand. I realise. I transform.
I change something in my modus operandi, my way of thinking and of approaching people and situations.

And I listen... to others, to the world, to myself.

And here, I really start to act.

« Become what you are ». Pindare

• Language: English
• Publisher: B Duche
• Release date: Jun 15, 2013
• ISBN: 9791092804034

B Duche

Born and raised in France, Benoît Duché lived in New York for six years where he directed a famous French haute-couture house in North America. For the past eight years, he has been writing books as well as short and long feature scripts of human interest fictions set in mixed cultural/historical/social backgrounds. In June 2007, he exhibited some of his watercolours at the gallery Etienne de Causans, rue de Seine in Paris and granted the profits to the VBMC in Congo.

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Yes, I know, pretty much everything has been written on the topic.

The concept of Let go has become a very fashionable cliché, with its own  role plays, coaches and broadcasts.

When should I let go? In which situation?

Let's take talking for instance!

How many times did I open my big mouth instead of thinking it over and shut up?!

On the other hand, there is the « speak-up » school: Let your opinion be known to all, no matter what!

Let go is universally essential when it comes to:

1/ The Past: to learn from my past experiences, yes. Brooding over the past is useless and can become harmful.  

2/ The Future: To be cautious and farsighted, sure. But what's the point of worrying about what's going to happen tomorrow?

So, how do I know what's right or wrong?...

To begin with, I can improve two powers that we all have in ourselves, at different levels:

DISCERNMENT and DETACHMENT.

They go well together.

The more detached I am, the more I am in my inner space, my space of silence, the sharper  my discerning skills.

As well as the other way around: the more I develop my discerning power, the clearer