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Ch10 Meaning of Surrender - Coggle Diagram
Ch10 Meaning of Surrender
Surrender
Surrender doesn't mean 'Giving up'.
Resignation is not surrender.
Surrender in the context of getting things done.
Accept the present moment unconditionally
No suffering
Analogy - Walking at night, surrounded by thick fog
Fog => Life situation Past and Future
Flash light => Conscious Presence
Clear Path => Now
Miracles of life (eg. Flowers) unflods without unhappiness.
Life Situations are different from Life.
Being cut off from your feelings is not Surrender
Suffering from physical pain is due to resistense
Yield to rather than Opposing the flow of life.
Life Situations
(Things "go wrong")
There is a gap between
demands or expectations of your mind and what is.
Suffering of your mind
Then take action
aka Surrendered Action
These are positive actions which are far more effective than negative action which arises out of anger, despair or frustration.
Joyful celebration of life energy
Anything "bad" that happens in your life,
use it for enlightenment.
Become an Alchemist.
Transmute suffering into consciousness,
disaster into enlightenment.
Don't create a victim identity
The way of cross
Enlightenment through suffering
Choice
As long as your mind with its conditioned patterns runs your life, as long as you are your mind, what choice do you have?
None. you are not even there.
The mind-identified state is severely dysfunctional.
Choice begins the moment you disidentify from the mind and its conditioned pattern. The moment you become present, Consciousness.
Notes
Unconscious
Compelled to think, feel, and act in a certain ways according to the conditioning of mind.
If mental development and increased knowledge are not counterbalanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness, the potential of unhappiness and disaster is very great.
The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seek to
re-create what it knows and is familiar with.
Don't start to run the 'mental movies',
project yourself into the future, and so lose the now.
Surrender in Personal Relationship
Only an unconscious person will try to use / manipulate others.
Also, only an unconsciousness person can be used / manipulated.