Letting go.
Most of the time, holding on means that you treasure something. This can get into certain psychological nuances but most of the time it can be something worthy, something special. Letting go means that we either need to get rid of something not welcomed or trust that something good will remain or come back. We all have had things to let go of and at times you find that it is something you no longer have stewardship over it or on the other end of the spectrum, you find that it owns you. In Buddhist thought, all things are impermanent or temporal in nature and the goal of existence is one of releasing. An object or thought can be persistent and it can turn into what is called ‘mind grasping’, the object or thought controls the mind and causes the pain of attachment. In order to free or liberate the mind, you have to find release from it. Buddhism calls this Nirvana, which Joseph Campbell artfully explained as, ‘the ultimate condition where you are not compelled by desire or by fear. It is where you hold your center and act from there’.