{"id":19627,"date":"2020-12-18T09:37:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T14:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19627"},"modified":"2020-12-18T10:30:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T15:30:31","slug":"letting-go-is-liberation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19627","title":{"rendered":"Letting Go Is Liberation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Self-Emptying<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Letting\nGo Is Liberation<\/strong><br>\nFriday, \u202fDecember 18,\n2020<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o9dLY2LTgHE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>In talking about letting go, we are really talking about\nliberation. It\u2019s a type of liberation theology for a Global North country, if\nyou will. Here are the proper questions: What is it we need to be liberated\nfrom, and what is it we need to be liberated for? And who is the liberator?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nthink we need at least six kinds of liberation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Inner\nliberation from ourselves (letting go of the centrality of the small self)<\/li><li>Cultural\nliberation from our biases (which involves letting go of the \u201ccommodity\u201d\nculture and moving into the \u201cpersonal\u201d culture) [1]<\/li><li>Dogmatic\nliberation from our certitudes (letting go of the false self and discovering\nthe True Self)<\/li><li>Personal\nliberation from the \u201csystem\u201d (letting go of dualistic judging and opening to\nnondual thinking)<\/li><li>Spiritual\nliberation <em>for<\/em>&nbsp;the Divine (some form of letting go happens\nbetween each stage of spiritual growth)<\/li><li>Liberation\n<em>for<\/em>&nbsp;infinite mystery (the mystery that what looks\nlike falling is in fact rising), which is really liberation for love.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>As\nyou have often heard me say, <em>if you do not\ntransform your pain, you will most assuredly transmit it.<\/em>&nbsp;Healthy religion on the practical level tells\nus what to do with our pain\u2014because we will have pain. We can\u2019t avoid it; it\u2019s\npart of life. If we\u2019re not trained in letting go of it, transforming it,\nturning crucifixion into resurrection, so to speak, we\u2019ll hand it off to our\nfamily, to our children, to our neighborhood, to our nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nart of letting go is really the art of survival. We have to let go so that as\nwe age, we can be happy. Yes, we\u2019ve been hurt. Yes, we\u2019ve been talked about and\nbetrayed by friends. Yes, our lives didn\u2019t work out the way we thought they\nwould. Letting go helps us fall into a deeper and broader level at which we can\nalways say \u201cYes.\u201d We can always say, \u201cIt\u2019s okay, it\u2019s all right.\u201d We know what\nlasts. We know who we are. And we know we do not want to pass our pain on to\nour children or the next generation. We want to somehow pass on life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\nmeans that the real life has started now. It\u2019s Heaven all the way to Heaven and\nit\u2019s Hell all the way to Hell. We are in Heaven now by falling, by letting go,\nand by trusting and surrendering to this deeper, broader, and better reality\nthat is already available to us. We\u2019re in Hell now by wrapping ourselves around\nour hurts, by over-identifying with and attaching ourselves to our fears, so\nmuch so that they become our very identity.&nbsp;Any chosen state of victimhood\nis an utter dead end. Once you make that your narrative, it never stops\ngathering evidence about how you have been wronged by life, by others, and even\nby God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe this is why scholars have said two-thirds of the teaching of Jesus is, in one form or another, about forgiveness. Forgiveness is simply the religious word for letting go. Eventually, it feels like forgiving Reality Itself for being what it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-18-at-10.27.47-AM-500x349.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19630\" srcset=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-18-at-10.27.47-AM-500x349.png 500w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-18-at-10.27.47-AM-300x209.png 300w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-18-at-10.27.47-AM-768x535.png 768w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-18-at-10.27.47-AM.png 1928w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-Emptying Letting Go Is Liberation Friday, \u202fDecember 18, 2020 In talking about letting go, we are really talking about liberation. It\u2019s a type of liberation theology for a Global North country, if you will. 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