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Recieved: 2001/07/16 07:31
Subject: Re: [K-list] Surrender
From: Tracym
On 2001/07/16 07:31, Tracym posted thus to the K-list:
Thanks, Mystress Angelique
>
> When I first got the imperative to surrender, I struggled with it. I
> was told that surrender is not submission, which was a relief to a dominant
> personality..
> I actually got out the dictionary, looked up surrender and submission
> and wrote out all the definitions longhand, pen and paper to compare and
> study. Submission is associated with humiliation.. and being humiliated is
> not the same as having humility, though one may lead to the other.
> At last, I found a definition of surrender that was resonant to me. It
> is how surrender is used in real estate legalese. When one part of a large
> estate that has been leased out is returned to the main part of the estate.
> When the smaller part that has been temporarily under separate ownership is
> given back to the whole.
> That made sense to me.. my ego had a lease on life, separation from the
> whole and illusions of ownership. Its lease was up. Time to surrender. End
> the separation and rejoin the All.
>
> Quite simply though, surrender means give up. You cannot fight with
> Kundalini and win. Infinite wisdom will always outsmart you. Infinite
> patience will outlast you. :) You can struggle and resist till K. beats you
> into submission, or you can surrender with grace, and avoid the bruises.
> If you can't beat it, join it!
>
> I compare the K. process to having someone help you clean a closet. One
>"Do you
>" The correct answer is
>"" Then
> breathe a sign of release, and let it go.
> If you are meant to have it, you will get it back as a gift returned,
> only it will be cleaned and polished, repaired and reworked into something
> useful and lovely.
>
> That is passive surrender.. there is also active surrender, which is
> surrendering to the actions that intuition prompts. Often they go
> together.. first, surrender what your ego wants, as many times as you need
> to, to find peaceful stillness. Then out of that stillness will come an
> impulse to action that is unreasonable.. meaning, that it is not motivated
> by reasons, excuses or rationalizations. Not acting on the carefully
> thought out, reasonable solution, but the one that comes of pure
> inspiration, and makes you vibrate with joy.
>
> The part of you that is infinite wisdom, power and creativity can
> always find a better path than the smaller part could ever be capable of
> coming up with. It is really only logical to let the smarter part of your
> being make the decisions. The part that is infinitely wise and loving,
> outside of time's linear constructs.
>
> Who you really are, is not the thoughts you think.. you are the silence
> between the thoughts, the empty stage where the play of consciousness takes
> place.
> Blessings..
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