We Don’t Surrender to One Experience

The biggest push back that I hear as a teacher against a “surrender practice” is that people don’t see the usefulness in surrendering to the darkness, or to painful experiences. The teaching is often misinterpreted as some kind of powerless resignation to pain and suffering. And this is not the case. We can accept that we’ve had one experience. It happened. If it is, then it is. We accept that it is and that we have experienced it, but we surrender to the whole universe.

The universe is equal parts light and dark. We may well have just experienced a dark moment, and we accept it, because it is, but we never surrender to half the universe. That is blind. That is not useful. When we surrender fully, with an open heart and a quiet mind we do so to the entire universe. To the light and the dark in equal proportions in infinite amounts.

Yes humans only get to experience one bit at a time, and maybe even, much like tossing a coin and getting heads over and over, we can experience a string of “dark events” but those individual experiences are NOT the universe. We accept them, because:

"What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?” - Eckhart Tolle

But when we engage in our open hearted – quiet minded surrender it is to everything (or nothing.) To the ENTIRE universe not to one small little experience of it.

This subtle distinction is important and ends the confusion so many people feel when they hear about a surrender practice for the first time.

When we join Christ saying “Not my but Thy will” to God, we know the Goddess is ALL of it, not merely our one little experience of it, and we surrender to that truth.

Which brings us the “peace that transcends all understanding” not by believing in Jesus, but by practicing as he did.

When we practice as Jesus did we find the peace through surrender that he and we share and it liberates us and enlightens our experience.