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Jed McKenna:
Dear Members, a response you may enjoy...

Let's pretend for a moment only, that you are at the moment of your death. Now, you tell me exactly what you are going to cling to and what you are going to let go of.

How difficult do you want your death to be? You are dying every moment and yet still clinging. Let go of everything. Die to this world in order that you might actually come alive. You are never deader than you are at this very moment. Something to all these zombie movies.

Sometimes folks get caught in a thought like, 'Well crap, what will be left if I let go?'. There is only one way to find out and I assure you, you won't be disappointed.

Maybe the only real free will you have is the choice to let go or hold on, but wait, what the hell does 'holding on' mean? Thinking about, wanting, worrying, wishing, praying for, fearing some illness, disease or person will come into your life, thinking something should or shouldn't be.... pretty much everything humans do... is just 'holding on' and making what isn't more important than what is. (Thanks Jer.) Please read that again as I am feeling particular profound and seek your approval.... s h i t, there it goes, creeping in.

I have an idea. How about you list the things you are attached to. No explanation required, no reasons, just simple... the things you are attached to. If you're embarrassed about an attachment, say... something like 'golf', then just call it 'XXX' and you will know what you mean. I't's getting it on the screen and 'out there' that I would like to see.

I hallucinate much of this journey is very challenging for you. Could it be that the holding on to is all that's in your way. Your thoughts are welcome and I have a good deal of admiration... this takes guts, real guts and few are up to it.

Love ya, Jed.

 

Smiling:
I was thinking about my mother, thinking about how much efforts she has put to try to make things work the way she wants but all in vain. Thus result in suffering. I felt sorry for her. I wish she could get on this liberating journey that I am going through that some day she could be free of suffering.
Then, I saw this post. Immediately I recognized mother is definitely on the top of my 'holding on' list. Off the list goes like this:

Mother
Nephew
Ms. Y
Sole will workshop
Enlightenment/truth/TR/HA
Youth/how I look （well, this one is very light, but still exist）

That's about it.

Smiling:
Add one more on the list:
Jed or other 'enlightened' people's approval and recognition and affirmation.

Smiling:
I just took a very good healthy ****, all yellow and soft ones. That's what I bought into the concept of 'healthy ****'. While sitting on the toilet, I gave it a little more thought about this. If I were really on the death bed and dying in every second, would I really hold on to all those above mentioned people and matters? No way. Or, maybe yes on some of them, but in a very positive way. I couldn't care less about other's approval or my look, but rather I'd be only care about my breath, and maybe smile at anyone who might be with me at that moment, tell him/her I love him/her and thank him/her, and thank every being I have ever encountered in my life, be it in any form. I do hope by then I have told mother that I don't think she has done any wrong to me anymore, and all I have for her is gratitude. I do hope that I've told my nephew and brother that I thank them for being in my life. It's not easy to say 'I love you' in Chinese to them, or, to anyone.

Gwen:
Dear Jed,
Maybe this is the heart of everything you've been trying to say.
LET GO. ( 2 words)
This is the suicide. The willingness to be crucified, the willingness to slowly cut your
own head off ( your words I think).
That's why (I )didn't wake up yet and why very few wake up.
Intelligence and Jed (hihi) are showing me where the attachments are.
And I must say I really go for it.
One more little thingie. Letting go of family (parents, children, husband,...)for me seemed
huge. And it is, but now there is love with no expectations, no you should have's, no why didn't you's,
No I want this from you's or you have to do that for me's.

THANKS,REALLY!!
Love
Gwen

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