[Robert] Washing my physical face

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At 10:08 PM 1/24/00 , you wrote:

>So surrender frees you from maintaining a structure that is artificial and

>saps your flow (gotta let the sap flow...)

>

>So that's where I am today. Feel better than I have in a while, too.

>Christopher, old chum, don't mean to dis you, just my view.

 

 

Aaah ...

 

Robert

 

you have used insight to look at the roots of surrender

as it so far has meaning applied to you ..

 

Therefore,

 

having redefined the keyword, for your self

it can be used with impunity

 

without drawing to it the past consciousness

of the box labelled surrender

 

Christopher Wynter

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At 22:22 24/01/00 +1100, you wrote:

>Christopher Wynter <anunda

>

>At 10:08 PM 1/24/00 , you wrote:

>>So surrender frees you from maintaining a structure that is artificial and

>>saps your flow (gotta let the sap flow...)

>>

>>So that's where I am today. Feel better than I have in a while, too.

>>Christopher, old chum, don't mean to dis you, just my view.

>

>

>Aaah ...

>

>Robert

>

>you have used insight to look at the roots of surrender

>as it so far has meaning applied to you ..

>

>Therefore,

>

>having redefined the keyword, for your self

>it can be used with impunity

>

>without drawing to it the past consciousness

> of the box labelled surrender

 

 

 

 

Christopher, I agree with you (as far as I understand the flottillas of

abstract nouns on the peaceful lake of your email... :-) I'm not sure what

you mean by the last bit. Do you mean I have somehow disengaged it from my

old connotations of its meaning? If so, true up to a point. Though the

nature of the experience was also different to past connotations of my

understanding of "surrender". So now it has grown to encompass the new

experience.

 

I've been unsatisfied with the word "surrender", though I may be acting

from ignorance about its "essential" meaning, whatever that may be. I think

the word doesn't do justice to the act in the context we were discussing.

In fact "surrender" has been hijacked somewhat by the territorial history

of the human race, making it imo too dualistic for use as a word for

merging with the All. No flags flying, no tickertape parade, no war

reparations, just open acceptance.

 

Actually, I don't recognise myself writing this, but something has happened

lately, changing me (again). "Surrender" naturally has the meaning I gave

it insofar as it applies to me. I'm not setting up rules for everyone, I

don't have the breeding. I don't recognise any "punity" in using the word,

Christopher, that's not where I'm at. "Appropriateness" is closer to home

for me.

 

Thanks for helping me clarify my thinking.

 

Love

 

Rob