You know,
Sometimes my students say they're having trouble surrendering and I smile because I know from my own experience that we surrender when we want to and if we don't want to surrender then we won't.
Now the farther one goes on the spiritual journey,
The more it becomes clear that the ego has no power.
The ego is just a reflection of our soul so it has no power.
That's why Christ said of myself I can do nothing.
But a lot of our energy of our ego is dedicated to try to persuade us that it is,
You know,
Very powerful and it will function like a dictator,
Like a dictator in real life,
You know,
One of those horrible political ones.
This is what's this is what's going on inside us.
Often that's actually why we have them in real life because it's how the human psychology operates until the person wakes up.
So,
You know,
How can you learn how to surrender,
Like give over to your soul or the creator to help you out?
Well,
You know,
What's that?
Just do it.
I'll tell you what I've done before.
I've just laid down on my bed and went I surrender and I might feel how tense I am.
I might feel how much I don't want to surrender.
I don't want to,
I feel how untrusting I am that there's something there but I would just be with it because I knew that it's really the only thing that works.
It's the only thing that solves things in my life.
So even if I feel the resistance I don't buy into it because I know that going along with the ego does nothing.
It just creates more messes.
It's actually why the world is in such a state because there's so many of us in the population,
So many of our like seven plus billion souls were asleep and we're in our egos and we're trying to,
You know,
Fix the world and fix our lives just by listening to ego and that's not where the solution is going to come from.
It's going to come from that which created this whole,
I was going to say mess,
But really it's,
You know,
From the point of view of our souls,
They're there.
It's just,
It's beautiful.
We're beautiful.
This world is beautiful.
Our souls are really madly in love with us and it's just seen as a lila,
Which is a word from the east for,
You know,
A game that our souls are playing,
That God's playing to learn,
To grow.
So here we are.
I hope this video makes it easy to surrender.
Most of us,
We start off with self-importance and it's so funny because other people's self-importance we can see so clearly and it's so revolting,
But you know we don't see our own so well and believe me I put myself there too.
Anyway,
Maybe just lie down on the bed and say I surrender and notice maybe how tense you are and how much you feel that maybe there's nothing to surrender to and just be with it because there's a lot of love coming to you and just lying there and being with yourself for a few minutes or for longer.
You might learn something.
You might actually,
Your soul might make contact with you,
You know,
And you might feel kind of a feeling of a breath of fresh air flowing into your body or you might feel some warmth coming into your body.
Just be open.
You know,
The spiritual journeys arise and we have very limited traditions here in the west so we have to kind of learn as we go.
And I think that's a really important thing to learn.
But you're really greatly loved.
Yeah,
May you feel that more and more.
Okay,
Bless your hearts.
