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Acceptance is surrender

17^th July 2022

Acceptance is surrender

The problem with most of our lives is simple: that we don’t accept who we are where we are, what we’ve got, and what’s happening. If I become a spiritual practitioner & try to clear this problem, it should reduce significantly. However conversely it may well increase significantly. When one engages in spiritual practice, holy devotional activities, or religious works, then it is quite possible, and it seems fairly common, that one’s expectations of reward increases. Doing good leads to heaven. That’s right isn’t it? So if I do good I will go to heaven, and if that’s not happening, I will be sad and mad, and possibly bad!

The thing is though if you do your prayers and pray for this and that when you meditate, and expect something or other, then usually nothing happens – for a while that is. This business of being engaged with yoga practice or being on some divine pathways is not subject to human dimensions of time. No, the dimensions here don’t exist, because time does exist in Truth. In the divine worlds or even the heavens, there are no clocks, so you can’t do things on a spiritual level and expect results according to human time frames.

Add that to the sometimes increased egoism that is generated by being good and doing good. & you may be generating a recipe for intense dissatisfaction. Intense dissatisfaction can itself be a mental health problem, or can lead to resurgence and relapse into previous mental health problems, including relapse into addictions and obsessive behavior. (Which previously were used as a distraction from one’s intense general life dissatisfaction).

What’s the answer then?

The answer is not to have any expectations regarding outcomes of spiritual practice. The answer then being happy generally is not to have any expectations regarding life outcomes. Let Life & the Universe do its own thing. Human outcomes and what’s happening in the world don’t necessarily fit into a nice synchronicity or a defined pattern. Obscure and unexpected events take place also. Global tragedies and sufferance, we’ll be seeing some of that for sure. It will issued out of somewhere, we then didn’t get the moment in time we wanted or were expecting, and we are then not in control. We will never be in control whilst we a geared to a time & outcome based situation. That’s another reason for the dissatisfaction and the feeling of non-attainment. All of this is simply human ego based content, & none of it has any real value whatsoever.

What you don’t get is actually acutely relevant to the spiritual journey or rather the spiritual state of enlightenment or realization. In that place what is perfect is what is always has been, and always will be, and is on changing. So, you shouldn’t be getting anything!

And there are no clocks!

That’s it. It is necessary to transition to the no expectation with total acceptance in order to become transcendental in all ones activities and approach. This actually is not just for one spiritual well-being but also is a panacea if you want any real true lasting happiness. This transcendental state doesn’t mean that what you’ve got and what you do will cease to exist, or even just not continue on a current trajectory. It doesn’t work that way because it doesn’t work your way, & it doesn’t work the egos way, & doesn’t work cording to what human beings want. Think about how it all should work & how it really works.

Scientists think they have or will get all the answers, and so all the problems will be solved. We won’t have Alzheimer’s, or cancer, or poverty, or homelessness. Simply by approaching all life from a scientific respective and discovering new discoveries, and creating new ways of fixing things. So we all get these magic protein foods created from, let’s say green slime in ponds, to make food for all, and then we solve the problem of global famine. Then we get new vaccines or new good drugs that also fix everything. Then we get genetic engineering or something, whatever was needed to stop us from ever being sick again, & finally we will just learn how to re-manufacture our organs. We can live forever if you like! Don’t forget they will also have a happiness trip pill so we can live forever and be very very happy all the time!

Yes it’s all bullshit. Science will never have the answers to human suffering and I will bet you everything that the world situation is only going to get worse. I guarantee that the rich will get richer, and the poor get poorer& we will have more problems with clean drinking water and food supply in poor countries. So more water problems, & pandemics and more tax. Yes always tax. It’s always got to include tax as it’s a metaphor for death – as both are guaranteed.

Now we can get real. Now we can say no more bullshit, & no more stupid nonsense about how wonderful it will all be for everyone on earth. Because humans are selfish. We may thrive from our inventions, but around us there are still millions starving.  Dying or suffering from horrendous abuse, having no access to clean drinking water, & subject to warlords & warmongering. The list goes on. The list goes on and on, and all we do for the most part is bury our heads in the sand. While we got down there in this hole in the ground, we have all these grandiose thoughts about how we are going to fix everything for everybody. Of course of course it’s for everybody not just for me!

More bullshit. Everything is for me. We want what we want & we want our own personal happiness & for things to turn out right for us. The right partner, the right job, right amount of money in the bank. (The more the better). Everything that human beings want is driven by ego based personalities, who try for that which is mostly totally selfish, whiles from time to tome throwing in some “I am doing good” shows.

Here religion has some value because religion talks to us about the needs of the bigger humanity picture. However if it’s bad religion it just wants to control us even more, and put more limitations on everything for the benefit of a small minority – usually middle or old aged white men. There are of course those heroes who work selflessly for the benefit of others because that is their calling. Many seek a better world, but unfortunately the reality of human history tells us a rather bleaker story. For this global picture to change, humanity needs to change. Then the alternative is to get oneself free from it all. Move on & seek the Cosmic Truth. Then comes understanding about all. Good & evil. Peace & war. Plenty & famine. All the opposites are finally understood as being a part of the Maya, & then there is a transcendental opportunity to see the force behind it all. To surrender to the Transcendental Force requires total acceptance, & then this force can be experienced. Then one becomes the Transcendental Guru.

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