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All what is transient and impermanent arise only to pass away. They come only to go away. But we invite them, entertain them, and insist on them to stay with us. When our hopes are shattered, we grieve and lament.
To be able to accept the reality of the situation, we have to attune ourselves to the rhythm of nature. "Whatever is of a nature to a rise all that is of a nature to cease". Things come our way only in transit; and so we have to let them go. It is our hold on them that brings stress and distress. One has to practise ’let-goism, as a detached observer of an inevitable law of nature. Then ’things’ fade away into the nature of things. The realization will finally dawn that these "things" are of our own creation - or rather the creation of our ignorance and craving. This insight into the interplay of mental phenomena brings home the truth that ’I’ is only a view and ’am’ is only a conceit, which bolster up an imagined Self as ‘I am’. |