>> I do truely believe that "Bliss is our true nature" and "all we have to do is let go" are misleading, unverifiable and not the panecea they're purported to be.
Absolutely, they are very misleading statements. The first statement is against the grain of most everything we've observed or have been taught, and the second is vauge and esoteric. Let go of what, exactly?
With regards to the statement: "Bliss is our true nature", I only have a few things to say. If our basic essence were not happy and peaceful, why would we experience suffering when we encounter the antithesis of these things: anger, chaos, and so forth? All of us can relate to the miserable feelings that arise when somebody becomes angry with us, or when we become angry with others. We become tense and confused, and we wish that the situation would end immediately. If our basic essence were bitterness and strife, we would delight in these things every time we heard some bad news, or witnessed a crime.
>> if being blissful and content is our natural state then we'd all still be sitting in caves and chillin, cause there'd be no need to develop all these things. We're constantly motivated to do stuff cause we're miserable.
We are miserable because we have been seperated from our nature of bliss. We engage in destructive behaviours because our ignorance leads us to believe that destructive behaviours will guide us back to our happiness. Lets look at the example of pride.
Most of us are raised to believe that we are the greatest beings to grace the surface of the earth. Our parents tell us that we are wonderful; our other relatives and their friends bathe us with praise and attention. Truly, for the first part of our lives, we're made to believe we are gods. Though, eventually we will encounter somebody who finds us distasteful, reprehensible. Before long, somebody is telling us that we're awful. It may be the first time we encounter insecurity.
Some may respond to that insecurity by recalling their positive attributes, exaggerating their good qualities back to themselves, and developing a sense of pride and self-importance. We may develop habits of charlantry, boastfulness. For a while, this makes us feel happy. But it is not a true happiness; it is pre-sabotaged and temporary.
Soon, we'll have set standards for ourselves that we cannot meet, and others in their wisdom will begin to expose this to us. We then fall backward into shame and insecurity, feeling miserable and unhappy withourselves. The cycle repeats again as we attempt to antidote the insecurity with greater pride.
We can find examples of this cycle in every aspect of our lives, underlying almost all of our behaviour. It is our ignorance which prevents us from recognizing such an ongoing phenomenon, and consequently it is our ignorance which brings us away from our basic state of blissful awareness.
Believe it or not, the means of escaping this cycle is actually to let go, fully and completely. But what are we letting go of?
Whenever we encounter a problem, the first thing that we sense is "me" or "I". There is a feeling of importance attached to the self which arises immediately upon adversity. We think "I should not have to experience troubles." Upon encountering a situation which requires us to change and adapt, we cling to the only permanent element in our universe: our self-sense. But all we accomplish with this reaction is to create a gap between our perceptions and actual mechanics of our problem.
Usually we think that to remove a problem we must fight against it or control it in some manner. This reinforces and entrenches our problem. If we cannot accept our problem, how can we change or solve it? When we stop blaming or becoming discouraged when we encounter a problem, we begin to look inward. It's here that we discover the actual substance of our problem. Once we're able to accept this insight, to stop blaming ourselves or others, there comes a certain levity of heart which is able to manage difficulty with ease.
If we learn to have patience with difficulty, we begin to develop a tremendous mind of empathy with others. When we learn to pacify our difficulty through acceptance, the problems of others solicit our understanding. We judge others and scold them because we are not able to have patience with our own shortcomings.
Our problems can be treated as objects which propell us toward happiness if we do not resist them or encounter them with frustration. By relaxing the emphasis on ourselves and our experience of difficulty, there comes a relaxation of heart which allows us to work with and learn from adversity. This way, be begin to understand others, and feel more comfortable relating to them.
If this technique can be gradually implemented to greater and greater scopes, we will find that letting go of ourselves absolutely and completely brings about a total cessation of suffering, and the reuinification of ourselves with our basic essence of great and uninhibited bliss.
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