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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

surrender

Regular meditation practice leads us to surrender of the small-self - surrender of our beliefs about ourselves, surrender of our ideas about others, surrender of our concepts of God, and surrender of our views of how the world of things ought to be. It leads us to how things have always been.

Through regular meditation we come to realize that efforting to gain some understanding or have some particular experience or to arrive at some particular state only leads to more efforting and, of course, dissapointment. We come to realize that we are not in charge.

This is stated perfectly in the Quran 62:1:

All that is within the heavens and on the earth reflects the glory of God. He's the Controller, the Holy, the Powerful, and the Wise.

The Divine bats last,

bob

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