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July 2009 
~ Surrender
Posted on Jun 15th, 2009
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Attainment
Attainment
If one's parents are blind, and I will say all our parents were blind, then we too will be - and are - blind. We may have been born with physical eyes, but we have no sight, no inner vision. Everyone is acting blindly in every sense. And because of this blindness, many injustices have happened, many pains and injuries. And that sets within us a deep rooted thirst for revenge, a deeply ingrained desire for destruction, a deeply hidden animal within remains with man.
And not having the inner vision, the sight to see, being born of blind parents, not knowing our own nature, our true nature, the mind suffers from an inferiority complex. It is natural to suffer inferiority when you don't know your divine nature. And internally when the human mind considers itself inferior, then the way to counter this inferiority is to talk about one's greatness, one's righteousness. So something very dangerous can happen, one feels righteous and revengeful. And a good man who is suffering from an inferiority complex is worse than a bad man who is suffering from one. Because the good man is only good on the outside. Inside even he is not sure of himself. And when a man is not sure of himself, his goodness is not of the kind that will last for long. It is merely skin-deep. His righteousness is coming from his feelings of inferiority. His righteousness is a way to protect him from his ignorance of self-knowledge. And his own righteousness keeps him from knowing himself and healing the revenge and injustice he feels within. But if a bad person is self-confident, he can change any day, wholly.
And the difficulty is we are blind, but still born intelligent, and we rationalize our path, our way. We know we are inferior and we wish to become whole. But where there is intelligence there is doubt. And where there is rationality, there is the capacity to reason and develop one's perspective. So with intelligence and reason one will find it very difficult to enter any transforming situation with trust. And all situations can be transformative if there is trust. Instead, we struggle with every situation, with our inferiority, our righteousness, our need to destruct. And with our ability to rationalize every situation, we escape. We have become escapest. It is highly probable if you are intelligent and rational that you are also an escapest (big smile!).
Our ability to rationalize and reason what will happen has made it practically impossible to know ourselves. And we can only know ourselves if we know surrender. And when I say surrender, I mean surrender what you believe should or will happen or become. No situation ends in the way it begins. The end is always unknown. Most always what you think will happen does not happen. Life is a totally unknown journey. Whatsoever you believe will be the outcome will not be the outcome of any event. We can engage ourselves in reason and speculation and use our intelligence to shape our destiny, but we never can decide what it will be. The outcome will be something different. The outcome will be truth. We may within and without made bold determinations of what will be, but meanwhile the invisible, the unknown, keeps intervening and the entire story will have its own outcome. And the outcome will be truth. If you merely open your eyes and look, the truth is always happening, right this moment.
And wanting truth is the secret to surrender. Everybody says that they want truth, but nobody really wants it. But even if you put your whole power behind it, the untruth can never be victorious. Even if you devote your life (!), untruth cannot become true. And truth can initially look like a disaster, but in the end is always victorious. You can trust it! What is untruth can look like its going to end so well, everything will be what you ever hoped, and it ends in disaster. In hindsight you can look and see! Whatever you wanted, didn't happen. And what you never dreamed of, lands somehow in your lap!
So how when we are so intelligent are we to move in the unknown? The individual can never know. But if you surrender your will, if you surrender yourself, you can know immediately, instantly! You can become one with the outcome, with truth. An individual can never know the will of the whole as long as he is maintaining a personal outcome, a personal will on the whole. No attitude of imposing one's will upon the whole will make a difference to the truth. Not one bit of difference. The truth will always be victorious in the end. Therefore it is wise to always seek the truth, want the truth. And what is the truth? What is happening right now before your eyes. Just open them.
When an individual has surrendered his will, his eyes begin to open and there then is no need to know the will of the whole, because whatsoever is happening, whatsoever is taking place is the will of the whole. The individual is just playing a part in the truth. And if one can let go of himself and just be the witness of what is happening, releasing his idea of what 'should' be happening, then no responsibility lies upon his or her shoulders. (Ah!) They can be carefree and begin to enjoy the truth. But if you have a separate goal than truth, you will feel quite responsible for all that happens, and how can we not suffer from an inferiority complex if we are responsible for a ALL THIS????!!! (big big smile).
If you can surrender yourself totally, give up your ego, responsibility and feelings of inferiority - and they often go together - you become a part of the whole, the dance! Yes, you can fight, but you will only ruin yourself, and you ruin knowing what you are to the whole, you ruin knowing the will of the divine. Because, simply, the will of the whole, the will of existence is being fulfilled all the time. It is being fulfilled right this very moment. There is no way to alter its fulfillment.
There is no way to alter its fulfillment!
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Ahh, but it is in surrendering the ego will that one takes on the Will of the One and may use that Will to become the One.
Thanks Cheyenne.
Blessed IS,
Jeremias
O, yes! I like that! 'takes on the Will of the One and may use that Will to become the One.” ooohhh, that's nice. I call that 'practice'!!!!
Thank you, Jeremias!
Blessed IS!!!!
Cheyenne
With nothing, we gain everything! The fool rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love,
Ram Prem
Hi, Ram Prem!!!
Ah, the Fool Rules!!
“A fool is one who goes on trusting; a fool is one who goes on trusting against all his experience. You deceive him, and he trusts you; and you deceive him again, and he trusts you; and you deceive him again, and he trusts you. Then you will say that he is a fool, he does not learn. His trust is tremendous; his trust is so pure that nobody can corrupt it. Be a fool in the Taoist sense, in the Zen sense. Don't try to create a wall of knowledge around you. Whatsoever experience comes to you, let it happen, and then go on dropping it. Go on cleaning your mind continuously; go on dying to the past so you remain in the present, herenow, as if just born, just a babe. In the beginning it is going to be very difficult. The world will start taking advantage of you…let them. They are poor fellows. Even if you are cheated and deceived and robbed, let it happen, because that which is really yours cannot be robbed from you, that which is really yours nobody can steal from you. And each time you don't allow situations to corrupt you, that opportunity will become an integration inside. Your soul will become more crystallized.”
Utterly true!
And its deeply understood in diverse cultures. In the last 200 years as much by German philosophers Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, as Ralf Waldo Emerson, French Existentialists, British scientists, irish writers, Russian artists and other representatives from Western world.
The Eastern traditions helped us to recongize our own intuitions.
Your intuition, Che, is brilliant. Intuition AND discriiminative intelligence -as Trungpa said-are complimetary. This is -once again- a wonderful piece of perception from you!
Thank you, this fingerprint is unique.
Albert
O, Dear Albert! thank you. Thank you always for your words. I bow to Trunpga! He is so right. They are two side of one coin, yes?
Surrender, Albert, is an art and a mastery. I am willful girl, who must crash, who strives like a fire…that never burns out.
I often find myself singing this song: Don't wish it away, don't look at it like it's forever. Between you and me, I can honestly say that things can only get better. And while I'm away dust out the demons inside, and it won't be long, before you and me run to the place in our hearts where we hide. I guess that's why they call it the blues..time on my hands could be time spent with you…….
….But more than ever I simply love you, more than I love life itself
…(then I surrender, fall, die, remembering you are life itself!)…I bow in wonder and awe. Only I was in the way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIc8tYOofJ8&feature=related
Albert, thank you!….
Silence and love,
Che
HI, I love to share this,
Ones I was sitting in front of a pond with lotus flowers in it, they were no open jet, I was lessening a lecture of Osho, so I was quiet and just looking into the flower it was closed to me when suddenly I sow a movement in the lotus and fallowing that moment it was and opening and light, I was static, such event, mi God I could no belive my eyes. The lotus open Surrender to the impulse was happening inside, in a series of movement and opening simultaneous with a light coming out and surrounded her. Every thing happen so fast, so quick, so delicate, and I sow it, lucky me!!.
I wonder if become enlightenment, is something like this. Open Surrender to the impulse arise from withing and all is Light.
I was in AH! like a child,
Much love and joy,
thank you Cheyene, Chaitanyo
Chiatanyo! What a beautiful story! Thank you dearly for sharing it! To witness the opening of a flower! To truly witness it..what joy! Who would not cry to see such a sight? To it opening to life! A birth!
In my studies of the Master you love so dearly, Osho was giving initiation to some parents of a child. The child came to him and said, “I would also like initiation.” It was written he looked into the child and put his hands on his head. The little one closed his eyes to receive the blessing of Osho, to become an aspirant.
A woman in the room burst into tears! Who would not cry! Who would not cry to see a child opening to love and life this way? A child. A flower opening! Life becoming!
Beautiful story!
Oh, I wish enlightenment was easy….as some say. I find it takes constant effort and faith with a positive attitude so that you can maintain the practice that will give you full experience of the light you are. Moments flash! Insight is gained. One can get so close…and this is very good. Because speculation is replaced with true insight. But the full realization of this One within takes skill, in my opinion, skill in detachment and practice…full faith and unending correct perseverance in practice and eagerness to succeed…maintaining this faith with uninterrrupted practice…then it is only a matter of time! (big smile!) And every day as the light is revealed within the mind becomes less disturbed, less distracted…we do not run so foolishly toward nonsense…we do not run from it either (big smile!)…I enjoy nonsense! With no attachment. It is strange to me what comes from years of practice….You do so much…but are never disturbed…even UNABLE to become attached…but fully feeling! This alone is worth it!…
but the joy of knowing Self with no second! Reducing all mind to knowing!
How I love this “AH!”
“Ah!” “Ah!”
(deep bow!)…(silence)….
love…
Cheyenne
Surrender, hummmmm
One day sitting in my bed silentely, doing nothing and reaple of waves start
flowing very silence, very sweet, almost I stop my breath, I didn't want to
disturbe the flow it was happening from down up, so subtle, so present,
oh! sweet, sweet…
oh, yes!
Thank you, Chaitanyo! That's beautiful!!!!
I know this feeling you describe…actually every nite before I fall asleep, just lying there I wait until I am nothing but a hummmmmm….a hummmmming..and nothing else. The vibration is sweet and so interesting that nothing else is known. nothing else is wanted..just the buzzing in my blood, in my veins, in my body and heart….
…my mouth parted…not wanting to breathe so not to miss what's existing beyond the vibration ~ a knowing that I am alive. And feelling that which knows is death (!). Feeling life and death at the same time. What a couple they make!
My mind tends to smile…saying, 'oh so this is life…a subtle vibration on silence. “I am manifest!” (laughing!)
You are manifest! oh! sweet, sweet!…what does it feel like to be Chi?…?
Surrender to the feeling, to the vibration!
thank you so much, Chaitanyo, for sharing!
with all my love!
cheyenne