Hold on to the Buoy

if the Sadhna is is is well down to trust the price engine an absolute letting go that's what the Sadhna is that imagine that you're in imagine that you're in the ocean you're in the ocean and imagine that the Sadhna which is trust paying attention and letting go is represented by a buoy you know a buoy in the middle of the ocean which you attach a boat to you know about buoys floating in the water and you can it's it it it's it's attached to a strong anchor so it doesn't move you can attach a boat to it in the bubble move it's called a buoy Oh buoy so imagine that the sadhana that I'm speaking about which is unconditional trust paying attention and letting go that's the sadhana so imagine there's a store imagine a storm starts brewing imagine that you're in the middle of the ocean as the storm starts growing and you're and you're holding onto the buoy which is unconditional trust paying attention and letting go the storm starts brewing a storm in the context of this discussion is the mind starts getting agitated with fear doubt and negativity the storm starts brewing in the middle of the ocean in this distant the the the the the sky becomes overcast is lightning and thunder and the waves start getting very high and then it gets harder and harder in the midst of the storm that the mind is generating gets harder and harder to hold on to the buoy and then the storm gets even stronger which is fear which you would use which is a metaphor for fear doubt and negativity and when the storm gets stronger and stronger and stronger so if if in the midst of that kind of storm which is just coming from the mind that fear doubt and negativity if we can have the courage the blind courage to hold on and hold on to the buoy which is trust attention and letting go if we can hold on to the buoy with all of our hearts that means when the storm dies down we won't have moved an inch the storm dies down to the clouds the clouds part the Sun comes back out the sea becomes very calm again and we're in exactly the same place we were before the storm started we haven't moved an inch right so we're grounded but for but for another person who didn't have the courage in the midst of the storm to hold on they let go of the buoy and so then when the storm died when the when the storm dies down they wake up and they find himself on a beach on a desert island wondering oh my god what happened how did I get here and they've completely lost their way they've completely lost their way and they lost their lost touch with the Dharma and they lost touch with their own inner freedom they've lost touch with the truth so so the to the trust and the paying attention and the letting go really actually means much more than we can imagine it's trusting in that which the mind can't imagine cross digging that once the mind can't imagine and so the storm in this story I just told you the storm is a metaphor for that for an agitated mind which represents fear doubt and negativity fear doubt and they burn every negativity so if we can hold onto the buoy in the midst of the most powerful storms and not let go of it no matter what our moksha our enlightenment and our spiritual self-confidence will become very strong will become very strong