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“letting go is the greatest paradox”

Saturday 30 June 2007 | someone left a cookie

by sanober durrani

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  1. the brujo said on Sunday 1 Jul 2007 at 11.47 am:

    ahoy- who said “letting go is the greatest paradox”? (the title being in quotes I figure someone said it…note also my iconoclastic refusal to obey the stupid rule of putting all punctuation inside closing quotes…”letting go is the greatest paradox?” looks silly to me, and that’s that)

    and why is letting go the greatest paradox? I have a few opinions as to why…of course. Because we aren’t holding on to begin with, we only believe we are. Because we can’t let go by choice, decision or under our own steam. (I imagine myself believing I am holding on, with fierce white-knuckled terror, and the Wise Guru is standing down below, yelling up at me “Let go! It’ll be all right! It’s all in your head!”) Because the belief is built out of our conviction that the stakes are high and the truth is *nothing is at stake*. Because we think we have let go and that belief is just as bad as the belief that we are holding on.

    Chthonic boomingly yours,

    Pedestrian Crosswalk


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