What is the secret of letting go

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?What is the secret of letting go

• I have just returned from ten blessed, restful,
  delightful days with my dear old ashram friend
  and mentor, Baba Ram Dass, at his home on Maui, a
  truly magical and healing place. Spending time
  with RD is awe-inspiring. Every moment of
  enlightened conversation or carefree laughter,
  dinnertime meditation or sacred chanting, opens
  up new worlds. Memory-making, I cherished and
  filed away an abundant array of happiness data as
  well as stories and teaching tales from the Great
  Path.   Spending time with this realized spirit
  allows me an opportunity to "see" and be more
  clearly. As I head into the tail-end of my life,
  and watch many of those close to me either
  struggle with health issues or pass on all too
  quickly, life becomes more obviously a gift, day
  to day as well as moment to moment. 

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 How can I forget and fall into thinking of this
grace-full life like more of a chore than a joy?
Why see it as an existential burden or wearisome,
as one may very well feel sometimes when
afflicted with various travails physical, mental,
spiritual, socio-political and otherwise?
Personally, I try to focus on the ¾ of the glass
that's full rather than the half that's empty.
Sure, my years of meditative practice have paved
the way towards appreciating this, but I tend to
think it's more about the unbroken wholeness and
underlying interconnected oneness and inter
being in the ever-flowing present, the great
Flow, the Tao. We need to let it flow and let it
go. Grasping too tightly to evanescent things
passing thru the fingers just gives us rope
burn! Profound teachings sometimes show up in
unlikely places. My dear friend and long-time
dedicated Dzogchen student, Dr. David Sugarman,
who is dealing with the later stages of a
terminal illness, recently shared with me this
very thoughtful piece from Elmore Leonard's novel
"The Hunted" as an example of that venerable
genre.  Leonard ("Get Shorty", etc.) is a master
of mystery fiction whose superb dialogue creates
memorable characters. In this scene the
character, Rosen, has been shot and realizes he
may be dying.
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"He had finally made it.  It had taken him fifty
years to learn that being was the important
thing.  Not being something.  Just being.
 Looking around you and knowing you were just
being, not preparing for anything.  That was a
long time to earn something.  He should have
known about it when he was seven, but nobody had
told him.  The only thing they had told him was
that he had to be something.  See if he had been
told it then, he'd have had all that time to
enjoy being.  Except it doesn't have to do
with time, he thought.  Being is an hour, or a
minute, or a moment." The secret of letting go
is letting things come (arise) and go, and
letting be. That's the Secret. Catch and release
nothing's big enough to hold onto for too
long.With love blessings, Lama Surya
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