Making room for the new can be healing and therapeutic. Have you ever noticed how calm we feel when we create space in our home and get organized and our mind doesn’t race as much. In a way it’s a death and rebirth process. It works pretty much the same way when we clean out the cob-webs of our minds. How are we to allow new thoughts and ideas to come if we are holding on to the old thoughts?
In Buddhism, they talk a lot about non-attachment. We are creatures of habit and it is easy for us to become attached to things and thoughts. But, this attachment is an illusion. When we can see this, a new sense of freedom is found. Buddhists believe that attachment leads to suffering. Most of us try to grasp or hold onto things and thoughts to have a sense of control in our lives. Ultimately though, by trying to control, we end up losing control.
“Grasping at things can only yield one of the two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first.” Said Goenka once.
Sometimes, letting go is the only way forward!
