What it means to surrender:
and this is what it means to surrender - that there's no one truly releasing anything at all, it's not a mental act of letting go, but only the process of life being in motion, with everything already surrendered even as we're holding on. That's our most important and profound realization, it's the lesson from the Buddha on why we suffer, our failure to relax within the process of life as it continuously surrenders every moment that we hold dear. No, it's not an easy lesson, not one we really wish to learn, yet it is a noble truth, our suffering is born from grasping for things that were never meant to be held for long.
our surrender is already happening, always, and presently so.
what it means to surrender is simply realizing this, nothing more, anything else is only a ritual of performance, important in it's way, healing, yet it always occurs just after our initial loss, a recognition of an event already given to the past.
true surrender always happens now.
so how do we live with this constant loss, the sorrow of our continuous letting go? The Buddha offered his eight fold path as a means of realization and for our eventual freedom. Other paths have rituals that heal and bring us to an easier peace through our more tragic loss, dealing directly with our grief and trauma. But perhaps we don't need a path to follow, maybe suffering itself is noble and this ache of letting go is really and only a deep and true love that's meant to cherish our every precious, fragile moment. I'm not sure we're meant to escape suffering, our sorrow is an inherent quality of life, built in to its very fabric and our role is simply to be alive, recognizing every small joy, experiencing the grief of letting go, and allowing, allowing...
loss, another moment born, it's just how things happen, life after all.
this is what it means to surrender -
to find ourselves alive, awake, experiencing everything that's offered.
no matter how brief our joy,
or length of sorrow.
~
Peace, Eric
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