"Not for nothing is "letting go" the sine qua non of all forms of higher spiritual development,

whether we call it meditation, contemplation, yoga, or spiritual exercises.

But, relinquishing the ego is not an act of the will and not a result arbitrarily produced;

it is an event, an occurrence, whose inner, compelling logic can be disguised only by wilful self-deception."

continuing ⤵️

"the ability to "let go" is of decisive importance. But since everything passes, the moment may come when the relinquished ego must be reinstated in its functions.

But since the unconscious consists of opposites-

day and night, bright and dark, positive and negative-

and is good and evil and therefore ambivalent,

the moment will infallibly come when the individual, like the exemplary Job, must hold fast

so as not to be thrown catastrophically off balance-when the wave rebounds."

learning to surf the effects of the event's inner compelling logic, which is different on each event—like the ocean metaphor used to describe it.

"Therefore, Sariputra, without

attainment bodhisattvas take refuge in Prajnaparamita

and live without walls of the mind.

Without walls of the mind and thus without fears,

they see through delusion and finally nirvana."