The Buddha said that all suffering comes from attachment and desire.

These two things cause more suffering than anything else.

And the challenge I've had in my own life is that there's a lot of attachment

that I've had to many different aspects of my life, whether that's caring,

whether the people think about me, whether that's an attachment to a past

relationship or past friendships, whether that's attachment to

beliefs about who I am, maybe even like a nine to five job at one point.

I felt very attached to. It was very hard to let go of some of these things.

And I've learned some things about letting go that have completely transformed my

life, that it made this process so much easier

that I'm excited to share with you in this video because letting go is actually

extraordinarily simple when we let it be. So what we're really attached to,

when we think that letting go is hard, is we are attached to the meaning

that we give to something. So for example, if we're attached to a past person,

what it is, maybe it's a past relationship or even a friendship,

it's not even that person or what we think of it as that, but what we're really

attached to is the meaning we give to that person.

And the meaning we have to maybe even losing that person.

The interesting thing though is that if that meaning were to change,

it would be easier to let go. What I mean by this is, imagine you have a friend

that it's hard for you to let go of, maybe hanging out with them or whatever it is,

but imagine they do something crazy. They like light your house on fire or something.

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