Who is driving the car?

It's not the personal will that is driving the car, it's the mystery. It's always been the mystery for everyone of us, but a really strong separate self can create an illusion, a very strong illusion, that very illusion that is so very painful and begins to crumble once your separate self gets a bit soft, once you get a good glimpse of reality beyond the illusion. So, if you have a soft separate self, or almost no separate self, then the job is, as my pal Adyashanti puts it, "to get into the passenger seat". It means you have to drop the effort, drop the trying, drop the idea that "you" can do any of this and let the mystery take charge. That gorgeous, profoundly amazing mystery that is alive and animating your body right now. And how do you do that?  How do you let go of "trying", of "trying to make it happen"? Well, it's a big deal, it's not nearly so easy as a lot of hard work and good old effort. Instead - you have to let go. Let the mystery take you. You have to trust that the mystery is benevolent, you have to trust the words of all the masters through all the ages, that all say, this sweetest love, this friend, this bliss, is taking good care of us.

Tto let go is not some external, just-let-it-all-happen kind of thing. That external reality is the illusion. The power you have is in the internal world. You have to let go of the internal movements of trying, trying to be better, trying to change. You have to replace it with a warm, welcoming trust that whatever is arising for you, is compliments of the mystery. And in that warm welcome, you can begin to actually see what is really going on. This warm welcome, is actually the beginning of some powerful movement.