| Release from relationship
Tonight I'm having the most pleasurable experience by releasing my relationship with things. After reading Eckhart Tolle for years I finally surrendered to this notion, and while my friend was talking to me, I severed my relationship with him. This allowed "him" to exist independent of me, and immediately I saw him in a new light. He became fascinating, as I allowed him to "live" by releasing my relationship to him. This gave him new life, in all ways possible. If that is what the sages mean by the "now," I'm impressed.
The key seems to be relinquishing your relationship to things, or to people, for that matter. This I found the hardest to do, but such liberty when it was done! Allow them to exist independent of you, with no relationship. This grants them an aliveness, an ownership to their own being-ness, that you didn't see earlier, because you were too immersed in your own thoughts, in an "ownership" position.
Try relinquishing relationship to that cup as you drink from it. See if it stays the same cup, or if it becomes a new cup, an alive cup.
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