#let-go

There are two ways to live, to be, to know: one is of effort, will, ego (resistance); the other is of no effort, no struggle, but being in a let-go with existence.

Your body is your very life it cannot be antagonistic to you. It serves you in spite of your continuous fight with it… It functions better when you are not present. Your presence is always a disturbance, because your mind is conditioned by people who have told you to be against it. I teach you to have a friendship with existence.

Nothing that exists is against you. All that you have to learn is the art of living — not the art of renouncing, but the art of rejoicing. It is only a question of learning an art and you change the poison into nectar.

If you find that somewhere your body, nature, the world is against you, remember one thing: it must be your ignorance; it must be some wrong attitude. It must be that you don’t know the art of living. You are unaware that existence cannot be against you. You are born out of it, you live in it, it has given everything to you and you are not even grateful. On the contrary, all religions have been teaching you to condemn it from the very beginning.

If the world has to be fought, renounced, you have to repress your natural instincts. Then of course, you are going to be in a sick state. Against nature you can never be healthy, you can never be whole. You will always be split and schizophrenic. Naturally, you will need somebody to guide you, somebody to help you — you will need the priest (or the psychoanalyst).

You are not to fight the current and go upstream — that is stupid. You cannot fight because the current of nature is too big and too strong. The best way is to learn from a dead body… Living people drown, if they don’t know how to swim. When they were living, they went down; when they died, they came up… The dead person is in absolute let-go. He is not even swimming. He is not doing anything. The best swimmer simply floats. The ultimate swimmer, like a dead body, just goes with the current, wherever the river leads — it always leads to the ocean. Every river leads to the ocean, so you need not be worried, whether you are in a holy river or not. Holy or unholy, every river is destined to reach the ocean sooner or later.

You just go on floating with river. And this I call trust — trusting in existence that wherever it leads, it leads to the right path, to the right goal. It is not your enemy. Trust in nature that wherever it is taking you, there is your home… Ego is a doer, and by floating you have become a non-doer. In this inaction, you will be surprised how your anxieties and miseries start dropping away and how you start becoming contented with whatever existence gives to you.

Learn to flow with existence so you don’t have any guilt and any wounds. Don’t fight with your body, or nature, or anything, so you are at peace and at home, calm and collected. This will help you to become more alert, more aware, more conscious, which finally leads to the ocean of ultimate awakening — liberation.