The path to freedom is blazed with surrender.

Let surrender become the heart of all your practices.  Freedom is truly as simple as relinquishing your attachments.  To your memories, your feelings, thoughts, emotions.  To the very idea that who you are is based upon the activities of your mind, body and the events, past, present & future, of your life.

When you no longer identify with your “personality”–the sum and substance of the who that your conditioned self, your “ego” self suggests that you are–you will awaken to an experience of “personality” that remains unaffected by the activities of the body/mind.

You will discover abiding joy and contentment.  Your memories, your beliefs and convictions will continue to exist in the temple of the body/mind.  You just won’t think about them very often.  You will act on them, yes.  But you won’t agonize, serialize or belabor.  The temple of an awakened body/mind no longer suffers from constant repetitions and dialogues.  Nor does it suffer from any stimuli offered from the persons and circumstances that comprise the worldly intercourse of one’s life.

The habit of surrender can be cultivated with all of your daily activities.  Learn to surrender the tension of your muscles with hatha yoga, or any sort of regular exercise routine.  Learn to surrender your established patterns of thought with persistent mantra recitation.  Discipline yourself to let go of all your habitual emotional reactions to the little annoyances of your life–waiting in lines, driving behind slower drivers, breathing someone’s cigarette smoke.  Practice surrender in your meditations. Gather the sensations of your body/mind into a single sensation.  Then surrender that sensation.

Letting go possesses a unique energetic frequency.  The sensation of that particular vibration is what you are seeking.  When you begin to recognize and cultivate the very sensation of surrender, how surrendering pain, tension, stress, thoughts–the whole shebang–actually feels in the temple of your body/mind, you will be able to practice surrender whenever and wherever you are.

Your meditations will become exciting and fruitful.  Why?  Because once you make letting go a habit–more, a way of life–you’ll be able to just wave away those stray thoughts and random images that seem to come from nowhere.  You’ll find yourself sensing some thought or other disturbance approaching the silent stillness that you are enjoying and push it away before it arrives.  There exists no greater gift a human being can enjoy than hours of pristine contemplation.

Your daily discipline of surrender will become the heart of your liberation from doubt, fear and pain.  It will become the means by which you will recognize that while all the activities of the embodied temple belong to the Self, the Self does not belong to the activities of the temple.

Commit yourself to the Performance of a Lifetime–Live Surrenderingly.

Build a temple
  and Grace will arrive.

Surrender the temple
  and Grace will abide.