Date: 12/06/2025 12/07/2025
Location: Star River Meditation Center
Teacher: Yunquan Huang
Sitting Meditation
The Wisdom of Letting Go
“Letting go” is often misunderstood as giving up, suppressing, or escaping.In Buddhist practice, letting go is not about abandoning anything,but about releasing the grasping that causes suffering.True letting go arises from wisdom—not force.
1.What Is Attachment?
1.Mistaking impermanence for permanence
Wanting relationships, emotions, or situations to stay unchanged.
2.Seeing changeable things as part of “me”
Identifying with thoughts, emotions, and roles.
3.Clinging to what brings pain
Even when letting go would bring ease.
4.Attachment is habitual, not rational
It often operates unconsciously.
2.Why Does Attachment Bring Suffering?
1.It contradicts the nature of reality
Everything is changing; attachment demands stability.
2.It traps the mind in past and future
Preventing presence.
3.It creates pressure and fear
“I must get this.”
“I must not lose that.”
4.It narrows perception
You see desire, not truth.
3.Letting Go Is Not Losing But Relating Differently
1.Not rejecting, but releasing the grip
Things remain, but your relationship changes.
2.Not indifference, but freedom
You care without clinging.
3.Not less, but lighter
You hold life gently instead of tightly.
4.How to Cultivate the Wisdom of Letting Go
1.Understand the roots of attachment
Ask:“Why am I holding onto this?”
2.Recognize the cost of clinging
Tension, anxiety, and repeated disappointment.
3.Accept impermanence
Letting go becomes natural when you see that change is inevitable.
4.Practice simple awareness
Thoughts and emotions arise—know them without clinging.
5.Be gentle in relationships
Love grows when control fades.
6.Return to awareness
Awareness is the place where letting go happens.
5.Life After Letting Go
1.Mental lightness
A sense of relief and spaciousness.
2.Emotional stability
Less turbulence, more clarity.
3.Healthier relationships
More understanding, less control.
4.Acceptance of loss
Because nothing was ever truly owned.
5.A softer sense of self
From “I must hold” to “life unfolds naturally.”
Conclusion
Letting go is not losing—it is freedom.Not rejection, but wisdom.When you truly see the nature of attachment,letting go becomes effortless and liberating.
