Yeah, let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
You know there’s gonna be an answer, let it be — The Beatles
A lot of books on mindfulness talk about “Letting Go”. Recently I read “Cutting Through spiritual Materialism” in which Chögyam Trungpa talks about “Letting Be”. For me personally that choice of words is more accessible. It is less of a struggle. If I am agitated, struggling with my meditation and the teacher says “Let Go”, I say it is not helping at all. “Letting Go” is a struggle for me. I always felt inadequate with the tools needed to “Let Go”. For me “Letting Be” seems way more accessible than letting go. I can just be with my agitation and it suddenly is no longer a struggle. It creates space between moments of struggle.
Buddha discovered that struggling to find answers did not work. It was only when there were gaps in his struggle that insights came to him. He began to realize that there was a sane, awake quality within him which manifested itself only in the absence of struggle. So the practice of meditation involves “Letting Be”— Chogyam Trungpa
