Mind flexibility

Flexibility of mind is like getting rid of all the things you need to keep your ship afloat. All the ideas that bog a person down--including the cherishing of materials and possessions--only keep the mind trying to grasp, rather than learning to relax into the moment. No matter how many views we might happen to cherish, even those views are bestowed upon us by the cultures in which we grow up. What we often cherish as "mine" is really cultural habits passed down. So even this cannot technically be considered your own.
   As soon as there is attachment, there is pain and a fear that come from identifying with the object of the attachment. Recognize it and then release, and practice the idea that there is nothing to even let go. Subject and object are just games of the mind.
 When the mind is flexible, there is an ability to ask the question: what is this moment needing? Instead of imposing a plan or a framework, there is a freedom to just let things be and to make oneself available for whatever happens to arise. In this way, the way of being is softer and more loose.
  Perhaps this looseness of mind is a kind of preparation for all the deaths we experience throughout our lives. It can be an invitation to adventure and exploration, not a place of fear.