Discover the wisdom of letting go

When a great Zen Master returned to his country many years of studying abroad the people asked what he brought. He said: "I came with nothing but empty hands."

What are these empty-handed?
What value are we today?

 Usually, our hands are full of activities, problems and assets that seem impossible to put filled. Our life is full of decisions, plans and dreams.

If plans are not met, if events do not go therewant, or when the change comes unexpectedly to take root, many begin, press and hold.

 This attachment increases the anxiety. Few really know how to deal with change or understand why it is happening to them.

Living by Zen shows us how to stop and hold open our hands and two heads, new opportunities for us there forever.



Holding On

Many people focus on the life of accumulation.

I am very proud of what we have collected the money, titles, qualifications,Friends, information, property, lover. Soon I'm so full they can barely move, but I'm still looking for more, every corner of their homes and their lives CRAM full.

 It was not long before they believe what they have is they are. It is not accumulated to eliminate the most simple and easy to clean, the drawers.

 Many have not yet learned the value of the empty room.

Together with the accumulation process, the process appears to the system.
Many fear losing what they have.Everything seems to be valuable, no matter what. How many times must stop and ask, "I need this is not so valuable when it's time to let go"



How do we know ourselves.

Most of us feel that our work, possessions, achievements and relationships.
 This is how we know it. If we lose one of them, we feel lost part of ourselves.

Somehow we do not have the basis of all life, which is found in constant motion, changing, growing.
 To extend our senses self, you need to stop fighting and resistance to life ready to be let go.
But, if we let go of that life itself for us.

The change comes at the time, both give and take away things. If this happens, many suffer a lot from this sense of loss. A common response to take hold.



With the change is

If change comes, you can see, the first thing we must realize that the most difficult to believe that the more we destroy what we have in the palm of our Mani.

This is not the way to avoid suffering.
In reality, the pain of loss is caused by resistance to what is happening.
The more you fight, what happens, no longer resist the natural flow of life, the more you suffer and feel helpless as we can.

There are many ways we stop and resist what is happening in our lives - in general, depression, denial, endless activity, immediately make new plans.

 Fighting this change, we insist that the lives of our special needs,Meet our needs and expectations. A battle was formed. Much energy is wasted.

How do we live Zen, we find another way to deal with change.

 If any, changes in loss or failure is, we plant in the center of the storm and see what happens. Instead of blowing all the turmoil, we are the center of the tornado, full of energy and concentration.

 Let the ways in which we "think" things are going and allow We are fully with what it is. How can we make this big question - what do we really know that we lose?

A question that can not be answered are rational, this question is called a koan.

 As we work on this koan, our spirit, heart and empty-handed, open and clear for a new way of understanding and being.

 As we cling to stop and start the issue in the truth of the moment, we discover who we really are full of wisdom and fresh.

Now that you through life Zen reduce the grip and let go of the fears of our sense, is planted on a stable basis.
 In this process we begin to experience life differently and have a taste of who we are.

Our hands are empty. empty hands supple, flexible and useful. You can touch and comfort, they can give and receive what they can do what is necessary when the time appears.