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that you worked hard at it. It is painful. All growth is painful....
[Another participant says: Last time you asked me to try surrendering and I found it was much more difficult than I thought it would be. But during the therapy I found that witnessing and surrender seem to be the same thing when the mind isn't interfering.]
Exactly. In the final analysis, they are the same thing, because in surrendering, the ego disappears, the mind disappears; in awareness, the mind disappears, the ego disappears -- different techniques working from different directions, but the goal is the same. The roots differ... but that's exactly how it is.
Now you can choose whichever you feel good with. If you feel to surrender, continue. If you feel awareness, do awareness. They are exactly the same, and now you know, so you can choose whichever feels right. Both paths lead to the same. So whichever looks easier to you, you can choose.
Very good! Your experience has been of tremendous value. Mm? this is what I call an insight. An insight is something which is not a conclusion of the mind. It is not a conclusion of the mind because the mind can never conclude. The mind will always see that there is contradiction. How can surrender and awareness be the same? They are totally different. In awareness one becomes more and more aware of oneself -- self-remembering -- and in surrender one loses oneself: how can they be the same? They are absolutely opposites.
If the mind concludes, it will say that these are opposites -- only one can be right; the other must be wrong.
I call what has happened to you an insight because in an insight, paradox disappears, contradictions disappear. Suddenly you see in a lightning that both are the same, and it is such a release. Very good!
Blessed Are the Ignorant
Chapter #9
Chapter title: The Whole of Religion is Nothing but a Commentary on Love
13 December 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7612135
ShortTitle: BLESSD09
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Prem means love, and shiven means god of goodness, god of virtue. The name will mean, prem,
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