Continuous Releasing  

We practice continuous releasing for about an hour. Drawing parallels between Lester's teachings and that of the Buddha's. We explore the six steps of the release technique in depth. Followed by interaction.

Practice: "What is it like to release continuously?"

The Six Steps of the Release Technique:

1. You must want imperturbability more than you want approval, control and security. 

2. Decide you can do the Method and be imperturbable.

3. See all your feelings culminate in three wants—the want of approval, control and security/survival. See that immediately and immediately let go of the want of approval, want to control and the want of security/ survival. 

4. Make releasing constant.

5. If you are stuck, let go of wanting to control the stuck-ness. 

6. Each time you release you are happier and lighter. If you release continually, you will be continually happier and lighter.

- Lester Levenson

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The Art of Continuous Releasing

Inspired by Lester Levenson’s Teachings & Analogies

1. The Core Principle

• Relax. Flow. Let it all go.

• Where will it all go? Where do you want to go?

• Feeling fully is healing.

• Don’t understand or analyze—just release.

• Make it continuous—not occasional.

Analogy:

• The Bathtub & the Open Window: When you drain a bathtub, the water naturally flows out. Similarly, when you open a window, stale air is naturally replaced with fresh air. Releasing is the same—when you stop holding on, what needs to leave will leave.

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2. The Shift from Intermittent to Continuous

• When you think nothing is happening, that’s when the most is happening.

• When you think a lot is happening, you’re often strengthening your ego.

• Enter the field of continuous letting go—without intervention.

• Every thought shifts the climate of feeling—so let go, don’t engage.

• We are always either releasing or suppressing. Choose release.

States of Being:

• Half-hearted → Whole

• Intermittent → Continuous

• Clumsy → Graceful

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3. Six Key Points by Lester Levenson

1. Desire imperturbability – Be like the sky, untouched by storms.

2. Want freedom more than approval, control, or security – See the attachment and release it immediately.

3. Make releasing constant – Consistency is effortless.

4. If stuck, let go of the need to control.

5. Decide you can do this. – Unshakeable peace is possible for you.

6. If you do it, it’s easy. If you don’t, it seems impossible.

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4. Living Beyond Seeking & Resistance

• Happiness for no reason. Peace for no reason.

• The Buddha pointed to wanting, not wanting, and not knowing.

• Lester pointed to control, security, and approval.

• If you are not seeking approval from God or yourself—what remains?

What you resist persists.

• If you welcome it, it’s no longer a problem.

• If you love this world, it won’t hurt you.

• If you fear judgment, you will experience judgment.

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5. The Personal Delusional System (PDS)

• “Once I have __, then I’ll be happy.” → This is the trap.

• What if this moment is the most perfect moment of your life?

Reflection:

• Life gets a little tougher every day—how are you handling it?

• You don’t get lost in your house because you know you’ll find your way.

• What if you treated life the same way?

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6. Satipatthana & Unshakable Peace

• If you practice continuously, awakening can take 7 years or 6 years—but nothing in the universe can stop it.

• Even a car accident won’t interrupt your progress. You’ll continue where you left off.

• If you don’t fear death, nothing can shake you.

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The Practice We’ve Been Waiting For

• Replace everything with continuous releasing.

• What if we stopped suppressing anything—what would that look like?

• Everything we do is either releasing or suppressing.

• Everything we don’t do is also either releasing or suppressing.

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Questions for Nithya

1. What happens when we make releasing completely continuous—as in, not suppressing anything at all?

2. Jotho moth, thoto poth…. ( as many opinions, that may ways to reach the divine ) all the teachings been pointing us to this practice, even if it was never explicitly stated it before?

3. Since you can only point the way, but we must walk it—

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Closing Thought

“Love your current ability to love.”

“Love your current ability to release.”

This is the practice.