Releasing Control
Letting go of the illusion that we can control life.
The need to control comes from fear. When we release this need, we find that life flows better without our constant intervention. Not passivity, but trusting the process. Let go, let flow.
Written about in
- What Zen says about fear and anxiety
The entry traces the need to control back to fear, and suggests things often run better with less intervention. Less gripping, not passivity.
- What Zen says about rest
Zen traces the inability to rest back to fear: the need to control assumes everything collapses the moment you let go. The teaching insists this is trust rather than passivity, a distinction far easier to state than to feel at two in the morning.