How do you let go? What does it mean in practice to let go of everything? What are the consequences?
In order to let go one must become aware that one is holding. To become aware one must pay attention without judgement. When the awareness is in an open state it is possible to become aware of holding. Holding is always a resistance to something changing or a resistance to a particular experience. To understand what this resistance is may not be easy. It requires a creative approach to become open and accepting, and a sensitivity to recognise where one is holding. It can be an uncomfortable process since often the original pattern of holding was created to avoid a difficult experience. One should allow the dynamics of the natural experience to come forward without trying to work things out with one's conscious thought.
To let go completely will simply mean that there is nothing between one's perception of experience and the experience itself. Normally this is not what happens. We see everything with some kind of label superimposed upon it. Often there is a judgement involved.
Letting go completely does not mean that we do not act. It means that we are not attached to experiences being a certain way. As Dr. Chi often said, 'Everyway ok.' And this view does not imply a passive acceptance. It is the way he first related to experience. To become involved and joined with the experience so that he could interract with it in an harmonious way. Perhaps it is only possible to make sense of this by contemplating the processes of pushing hands.