To Linda: On Surrender

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Hi Linda,

 

Surrender is a tough word. Its accurate but that particular English word has a

lot of baggage associated with it for most people.

 

Recently I have found that surrender isn't a giving up of any thing in

particular its just simply an attitude change about ownership. I don't own

anything, She does. I still do the same things, but I do them on her behalf

because this is what she wants for me.

 

Once I stop owning, she starts reclaiming and she gives me some of her new toys

to play with.

 

Here's the analogy that sprang to mind:

 

I'm a child of my mother, and reality is my playpen. If I realize the toys are

hers and that she's just letting me play with them, I'm much less likely to

become attached to them and more importantly, when I'm done playing, she can

pick them up and replace them with new toys.

 

However if I hoard them, in a corner of the play pen and won't let her take

them, then I have no room for new toys. And no amount of crying will get me a

different one because she doesn't have anywhere to put it.

 

Once I've played with all the toys she wants me to play with, she will grant me

a boon. That's her way. A boon is simply the option to choose what I get to play

with next.

 

In reality that's true all the time. If I'm a spoiled child and I don't want to

give up my toys, then she'll keep granting me what I want by giving me more of

the same old toy. The same old desires.

 

But if I let go of all my toys and desire to play with her, say in her lap, or

by suckling or by hugging and kissing her, then she will grant me that boon.

 

Enlightenment is merely making every moment effective use of a granted boon.

 

Surrender is one of my pet subject. That's for helping me connect with me

understanding.

 

Brian

 

 

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