If we truly want to end suffering, we must move from our self-centered drama and story line, to the open surrender of "Thy will be done." It involves a shift in attention - a shift out of the entanglement in and identification with the thought-stream - and open into awareness of Presence - a shift from thinking to sensing and awaring. It involves a surrender, or opening, into the whole body-mind, a dissolving of the felt sense of separation, and duality, a melting into the spacious undivided, luminous and inseparable; noticing what is ever-present regardless of the experience that is arising.
Surrendering is an opening of the whole body-mind, a dissolving of the solidity of the body-mind, a letting go into boundlessness, [realizing] that it is all appearing in a larger context - the open space of awareness. The true "I" to which we all refer is ultimately this unbound awareness that is being and beholding everything. We are not limited to the body-mind, and the body-mind is not really a separate, solid, autonomous "thing." In fact there is no real boundary between "awareness" and "the body." The words seem to divide what is actually seamless and whole. So we don't need to deny the body or the person or relative reality, because all of that is appearing in a much larger context, and all of that is really very ephemeral and fluid and ungraspable...
There are many words for surrender: dissolving, opening, relaxing, softening, melting, letting go, resting, allowing, welcoming. What matters is not the word or some idea of this, but discovering this for oneself experientially. Surrender is a discovery that we each have to make for ourself.
In surrendering there is a letting go, an opening - allowing everything to be as it is, not resisting anything, and not trying to get anything. Simply stay with the living reality itself, just as it is. Awareness always allows everything to be as it is. It never rejects or hates anything. It is never really harmed or destroyed by anything that appears to happen in waking life. All the apparent darkness and getting lost is always happening in this bigger, vaster context. To realize this is to be free from suffering...
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