Let It Go!

*What is past is over. It cannot be changed. We will inevitably receive the results of our past intentions and actions. Our freedom lies in how we respond to these results. Our response creates new karma, new patterns that will eventually bear fruit. By creating a healthier future we can redeem the past.
--Jack Kornfield
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A tumor had developed, so one of her wombs was cut out. The doctor said she could still “see the moon.” But as fate would have it, the whole system shut down prematurely—no moon, no nothing. How could it be? Did the doctor cut all her wombs? What man would want her now—a hag unable to bear fruits. That was not in the script. The pain, only a woman could understand, was so excruciating. She walked about like a zombie. The sight of pregnant women sent chills through her spine.

That was suffering added to pain. Sometimes pain hits like a tone of brick out of the blues. How we deal with it is another matter. Pain can be a given—coming from the vagaries of the human condition that, at times, seems to have no rhythm and rhyme on the surface.

Who has not been betrayed? Wicked calumnies have been floated about us at one time or another. At one time or another we lost this or that which was very dear to us. Do we cling to the pains of these events and play it over and over again like a broken record, while plotting revenge, lawsuits, suicide, or plain old feeling hopeless? That is undulterated suffering.

The problem with suffering is that it has mental and other physical consequences. When we nurture the pain—that is, suffer—we send all kinds of electrical signals and secrete chemicals that debilitate our well-being.

So, what to do? Just let go! But from experience, we know it is not that easy, let alone forgive and forget. How then do we do it? That is the million-dollar question. It is in the mind and its many states. Good luck in your quest. Sometimes one needs an expert for help. And, last but no least: time is of the essence.
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Soko’s Classic Movie Pick: The Page Turner: Melanie schemed and got her revenge. But at what cost? The movie only gives a glimpse on the destruction of her nemesis. What about her? We are not told.