The Mystery in Front of Your Face

Surrender as a Technique for Awakening

In this video, the speaker discusses surrender as a technique for awakening. This approach is not incompatible with any particular technique or meditation inquiry and does not require any specific method. Surrender arises at the level of the heart and involves aligning oneself with living truth.

The Mysterious Nature of Reality

• There are many approaches to awakening, but in this video, the speaker focuses on surrender.

• Reality is deeply mysterious and dynamic, making it impossible to put into a box or mental framework.

• Acknowledging our own ignorance and surrendering to reality's mystery can help us attune ourselves to our true nature.

• Our true nature lies beneath all layers of identity, memories, beliefs, and learned concepts about what it means to be human.

Letting Go of Concepts

• Surrendering requires letting go of everything we think we know or take ourselves to be.

• Reality is too mysterious to be neatly enclosed in a memory of time or tied up in a timeline.

• We cannot separate out events, objects, people, or circumstances because things do not have distinctness.

• To let go of all concepts is to let go of everything we know about ourselves and the world around us.

Radical Intimacy with Sensation

• Surrendering allows us to feel radical intimacy with sensation without turning them into anything else.

• Here and there become mysterious when we acknowledge that we don't know what they mean.

Entering the Mystery

In this section, the speaker talks about how coming into fidelity with the environment can cause emotional movement and fear. The boundaries between body and environment start to blur and dissolve, leading to a mysterious experience where there is no separation between self and other.

Surrendering to Experience

• As we come into fidelity with the environment, the boundaries between body and environment start to blur.

• This experience is mysterious because it cannot be imagined; it must be experienced through surrender.

• Everyone can experience this by going inward, past the barriers of identity until things become quiet.

• The sense fields start to blend inward until there's no way to determine where one ends and the outside world begins.

Carrying Intention Throughout the Day

• Carry with you throughout the day an intention to enter the mystery again and again.

• Let go of all conclusions about what's happening or supposed to happen. Reality will sort it all out for you.