Surviving Surrender

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Surviving Surrender

Our formed energy, the ego, cannot survive surrender.  I have so much to do.  What is the quality of your doing?  What is the quantity of your doing?  How total are you in what you do?  How complete is your attention?

Doing one thing at a time, complete attention; surrendered action empowers action, and action empowers success.

Have a look inside.  See whether you unconsciously create conflict between the inner and the outer.  Between your external circumstance of that moment, where you are, what you're doing, thoughts and feelings, and your internal decision making process; and your mental domain.  You see how painful it is to internally stand in opposition to what is.  You recognize this, realizing that you are now free to give up futile conflict, this inner state of war or struggle.

How quick to form an opinion about a person, to come to a conclusion about them, in short term, that static moment meeting others.  It is satisfying to the egoic mind to label another human being.  To give them conceptional identities, and pronounce righteous judgment upon them is primal.  Every human being has been conditioned to think and behave in certain ways. Conditioned genetically, their childhood experiences, and cultural environment, are key to intelligence, molding each of us. That is not who they are, but that is who they appear to be.  When you pronounce judgment upon someone, you confuse those behaviors with who they are.  To do that is in it's self a deeply conditioned pattern you give to them building a conceptional identity of them.  A false identity becomes a prison not only for the person, but for you. 

To let go of judgment does not mean that you don't see what they do, or have done, but it means that you recognize that person's behavior as a form of conditioning, and you see it and accept it as that.  You don't construct an identity out of it for the other person.  That liberates you as well as the other person from identification with conditioning. Then the ego no longer has control. Giving a much deeper understanding of who you have equated yourself to be, and a much keener appreciation for the gift - our intelligence

When you pronounce judgment against someone you confuse those conditioned line patterns of who they are.  To do that is in it's self an unconscious conditioning, needing awareness.

To let go of judgment, means that you recognize that behavior as a form of conditioning. 

As long as the ego runs our life, most of our thoughts, emotions and actions, arise from desire and fear.  In relationships we then either want, or fear for something from the other person.  What you want from them may be pleasure, or a material gain, recognition, praise, attention, or a strengthening of your sense of self, through comparison.  What you fear is that the opposite may be the case, and they may diminish your sense of self in some way.  When you make the present moment your focus of attention, instead of using it as a means to an end, you go beyond the ego and the unconscious compulsion to use people truly building bonds.

When you make the present moment the focal point of your attention, the fullness of the world displays.

When we are fully present with everyone we meet, we relinquish the conceptional identity we made for them.  Our interpretation of who they are, and what they did in the past, and are able to interact without the egolic movements of desire, and fear attention which is alert stillness.

Take past and future out of the moment, except for practical matters, being fully present with everyone we meet.  We relinquish the conceptualization identity we made for them.  Our interpretation of who they are, and what they did in the past.  When we give our fullest attention when we are fully present with everyone we have the great good fortune to meet.

When we make the present moment the focal point of your attention, instead of using it as a means to an end, we go beyond the ego and the unconscious compulsion to use people as a means to an end, the end being the self-advancement through the detriment of others.  When we are fully present with everyone we meet, then we give our fullest attention, we take past and future out of the equation, the lush fruiting and flowering garden of the moment opens it's arms. 

The ego doesn't like to hear this because it cannot be reactive, it loses strength.

When you receive the people of now as noble guests, then we allow each person to be as they are, then they begin to change, grow and thrive.

To know another human being in the essence, you don't really need to know anything about them. Their past history or their story.  We confuse knowing about, with a deeper knowledge which is non-conceptional. 

Without the conception barriers, Love is present.  Knowing about, and knowing, are different concepts. 

Most human interactions are through the use of words.  The realm of thought is essential to stillness. No relationship can thrive without a scene of spaciousness that comes with stillness.  Spend time and become comfortable with stillness.