Letting Go & Seizing the Moment

Letting Go and Seizing the Moment

Attachment and clinging creates a feeling of loss when things change out of our control, and we spend time and energy longing for the persons, places, objects, or experiences to reappear, or a sense of inadequacy or failure trying to figure out what we could have done to prevent or modify the unpleasant experiences. In both cases we seem intuitively to assume that we have or could have had control over the external world, and that external world could somehow be made to stop changing so that we could continue to enjoy the circumstances we had found that provide what we are looking for.

This clinging applies not only to things from the past but also to things in the present. Sometimes we get stuck in situations that are not happy but we stay in the situation because it is familiar, and letting go…