Surrender is a giving in, resignation is a giving up. The Ancestors.
Surrender embraces hope, faith, belief, trust, surrender, flexibility, receptivity and fearlessness. It involves a letting go without any grasping or desperation as well as a connection to the Field and acknowledgment of a Higher Force all of which lead to balance, harmony, equanimity and joy. Doubt, denial, disbelief, resignation, and detachment are fear based emotions that enhance a negative outcome.
Others have noted that those that were flexible, adaptable, resilient, committed, took control, were creative and used humor did better with their health challenges. Some who were congruent with the desire for cure were sometimes demanding and even cantankerous. Many described a phenomenon called a crisis/cathartic conversion experience. This could also be translated as having Kundalini type energy moving in the body such as heat or vibration, out of body experiences, shamanic like encounters and even visitations from deceased family members telling them all would be well.
The opposite fear-based qualities, are associated with an adverse result; a head down, helpless, hopeless, anxious and apathetic attitude, combined with depression, desperation and dejection.
Fear of death or failure on behalf of the medical team or family can induce the desire to help even if the ultimate outcome cannot be prevented and, moreover, the treatment has side effects. Medical treatment should not be applied if it is unnecessary, or if there is a more conservative and appropriate solution. To palliate means to help alleviate but not applying any unnecessary, ineffective therapy. Palliation is a love vibration. The focus should be towards a qualitatively and quantitatively better sense of being. Fear based good intentions that do not work are contraindicated.
You may have noticed that the blog has changed somewhat in format. Moreover, some of you devout followers have also probably been aware of the information being repeated over the years. These are universal truths that are always worth reaffirming. These truths are often found in quotes and I am always searching for new ones.
"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages may be preserved by quotations." Benjamin Disraeli
I myself have gone over the Ancestors' and other teaching countless times and each time I get another and sometimes deeper appreciations. We live in a fast world where we tend to say, been there done that, what's next and new. All spiritual traditions keep on maintaining, sustaining and reverberating these truths. All ancient traditions who have value should hold the same truths though they may be described somewhat differently.
The Ancestors teach; to take the truth from whence it comes.
The same truth can take on many forms. Buddhists darma talks are repeated again and again, others read the bible beginning to end and start over again. We need to keep reminding ourselves of these crucial lessons or they fade into the background or worse still are completely forgotten. So I make no apologies for repetition of the material which is usually reformulated differently every time I revisit it. It often shape shifts into something with a new slant. The correlations with other truths also come to light with the revisions. We all need to constantly re - vision and revise what we think we know so we can expand it.
It is the known that we should fear as well as the unknown. Sometimes our complacency of what we believe we know gets in the way of our transformation. There is a Zen story about a student who approaches a Zen master asking to be taught the path to enlightenment. The teacher tells him that they must first drink tea. He brings the tea and two cups and begins to pour the tea for his would be student but when the cup is full he keeps on pouring until there is tea not only all over the table but spilling over the seeker's lap. He jumps up exclaiming, “but can’t you see my cup is full!” The master says; “yes, exactly your cup is too full, you need to empty it first before studying Zen.”
"You cannot discuss the ocean with a frog - he is limited by the space he lives in. You cannot discuss ice with a summer insect - who is bound to a single season.” Chuang Tzu
It is complacency and the delusion that we know all we need to know that gets in the way of our hero’s journey. The journey is primarily one of leaving the known of our limited safe harbor and what’s comfortable and venturing into a scary place where we realize there is something critical that we really need to find for ourselves. This is at the heart of the paralysis we often have before embarking on The quest.
"In order to possess what you do not possess you must go by the way of dispossession. In order to arrive at what you are not you must go through the way in which you are not.” T.S. Elliot
FEAR OF THE DEEP, THE DARK AND THE STEEP. PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL FEARS AND JOURNEYS OF INITIATION
“There came a time when staying tight within the bud was more painful than the risk it took to bloom.” Anais Nin
"…put out to sea! Save your boat’s journeying soul and your own pilgrim soul, cost what it may.” Dom Helder Camara
Life is a journey and not a destination and the hero/ine’s journey is a rite of passage to test one’s physical, emotional and spiritual metal. This is best done in nature or wilderness or other environments that can do the same thing. It is important to master the lower third power chakra and one’s self-worth before moving up the hierarchy of growth chakras. We should not try to skip chakras - the lower chakras or the energy centers on the T.O.L. that reside in the ego. Until ego is subordinated to the higher Self, it will be difficult to open up to love. The hero's journey is also about moving into our growth chakras and away from our survival ones.
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