The speaker argues that you're not your job, body, or possessions—that's your ego. Real peace comes from detaching from things you can't control, even things you love. The only thing you actually control is your mind, but most people let it control them instead.
I'll often say when someone says, I changed my mind, who's the I actually saying that? Isn't the mind— aren't I the mind? What is the mind? In a nutshell, it's the ego. It's the mind that wants you to think you're your job title. You're a body that looks a certain way. I call it the ego thought system, is when we're attached to that, we think that's What we are, we live in fear. It's the root cause to fear is the ego thought system, which in most cases people think they are. So of course they're living in fear. And we attach to things, a job, a house, a spouse, our children. We attach to all kinds of things and we live in perpetual fear of losing them. So one of the key principles here in letting go is referred to as detachment. Or even unattached. This does not mean you don't love your job, your child, your spouse, your home, your, your, your car, whatever. It means that you're not attaching your peace of mind, your happiness, your joy to anything you cannot control. Anything you can't control. This takes us to the only thing you can control. Your mind. The problem is, is the mind is controlling you in many cases, which triggers these fears and doubts.
