White Flag

What is the difference between conditional surrender and unconditional surrender? And why is this important? We can raise a white flag and hopefully see a ceasing of hostilities. But does that really end the conflict on all levels?

Do we surrender unconditionally or do we negotiate a surrender? Do we surrender only under certain conditions? Is this a true surrender or simply an agreement to cease hostilities?

A true surrender is a complete ceasing of ALL resistance; physical, emotional, or spiritual. Surrender is to become the very opposite of what you are now, and in the process tie together both ends of any spectrum and creating a situation of wholeness.

So what is the difference between unconditional surrender and unconditional action? Are they two sides of the same coin? Can we have one without the other?

How hard is it for you to surrender? How hard is it for you to take definitive unconditional action? What's the correlation between the two? Is surrender the ultimate definitive unconditional action? Can we ever take any action without at least some sort of surrender on some level? Is surrender the ultimate action? Is action the ultimate surrender? Are the multitudinous conditions we place on both action and surrender what keeps us from seeing ONE-ness within the duality?

Personally, I have found that the more I surrender, the more I take action. I have experienced several years of inertia in my life and it was all due to an unwillingness to surrender. Now, I try to remember to bring a white flag with me where ever I go. When fighting and resistance stops a window opens up. That window, rather than the excitement of the fighting and resistance, is what now excites me. I long to swim through that window into a whole new reality; a reality in which duality enhances things rather than causes separation and turmoil. Duality is a harmony and ONE-ness is the lead vocal. When the harmony is dissonant you can't even hear the lead vocal.

Every great music teacher in the world will attempt to teach you that to make beautiful music it is utterly essential to surrender to that music. Do you see the make/surrender duality? If you're doing one and not the other then you're sitting on a see-saw all by your self and there is no movement. The nexus point cannot be accessed.

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