You may know that the autumnal equinox is this evening. So, in the seasonal moment when we naturally relinquish the summer to fall, I thought an exploration of the idea of "letting go" would be a good topic of inquiry.

In Buddhism, letting go is most often understood as the necessary releasing of our attachments. The release is necessary because the suffering in life comes directly from our clinging to how we want things to be versus how things really are. Importantly, this understanding of clinging and attachment is also directly parallel to the expansive understanding of our True Self versus the Separate Self we most often believe ourselves to be. As we hold an expansive view, we become more able to see that we are not merely human -- we are ultimately an expression of the universal."